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MIDEM 2008 IN SYNC WITH THE CHANGING INDUSTRY
18/02/2008
The evolution of the music industry was clearly reflected at the 42nd edition of MIDEM, with significantly increased attendances from companies involved in the digital, live music and music management sectors. In addition, MidemNet, devoted to new technologies and new business models, welcomed a record number of delegates.
This year’s international music market brought together 9,093 participants and 4,545 companies from 88 countries. Reflecting the main trends in the industry, MIDEM 2008 saw increased attendance in three key sectors: the biggest hikes were in the digital sector, up 18%; the live sector, up 21% and music management which saw attendance rise by 4%.
“MIDEM has responded to the needs of an industry undergoing a profound revolution. It has succeeded in attracting all sectors in the value chain by creating new events like MIDEM Talent Only and the International Manager Summit, and by continuing to offer both a series of top-level debates, a high-quality place for exchange and many concerts,” says Dominique Leguern, Director of MIDEM. “This year, MIDEM 2008 has again been the platform of choice for many major industry announcements,” she adds.
The highpoints of this 42nd edition were numerous, including the prestigious MIDEM opening evening hosted by China; the Personality of the Year Award presented to Peter Gabriel during a gala dinner which included performances by artists from his Real World label; the presence of celebrated German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig as patron of MIDEM Classique & Jazz, who was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the MIDEM Classical Awards; and the first MIDEM Green World Awards presented to three pioneers of a more environmentally-friendly live sector: Kevin Wall, founder and CEO of Live Earth (USA), Henrik Rasmussen, Director of the Roskilde Festival (Denmark) and Daniel Rossellat, President of the Paléo Festival Nyon (Switzerland).
The 9th MidemNet, the international forum for discussion on new music technologies and economic models, beat all attendance records. A total of 1,398 participants – up 6% - came to hear the views of key industry players including Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi (France); Bob Ezrin, Producer & Chairman, Live Nation Recordings (USA); Chad Hurley, Co-Founder & CEO, YouTube (USA); Janus Friis, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Joost, Co-Founder, KaZaA & Skype (UK); Prof. Lawrence Lessig, author of “Free Culture” & CEO, Creative Commons (USA); Joanna Shields, Global President, Bebo (USA); Tero Ojanpera, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Nokia (Finland) and Jim O’Mahony, CEO EMEA, Asia, Australasia & Latin America, Saatchi & Saatchi (USA).
During the first International Manager Summit, U2 manager Paul McGuinness made waves with his appearance, during which he called on ISPs to take responsibility for sharing internet revenues with music content providers.
This year, MIDEM was once again the preferred platform for major industry announcements, including the Qtrax campaign launch; the announcement by the French Culture Minister Christine Albanel of her “Plan for the Future of the Music Industry”; the launch of “Independence Day” for independents, an initiative from the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN); the announcement of the new Impala board; the agreement between SACEM and Universal Music Publishing Group to make the French rights collection body the sole receiver for UMPG’s European digital rights; the agreement between Omnifone’s MusicStation service, EMI, and the British and German royalty collection societies, PRS and Gema respectively; the agreement for online and mobile licensing between Spanish and British rights collection societies, SGAE and MCPS-PRS Alliance respectively; the Asian expansion of the on-line licensing platform Ricall via a partnership with the Ocean Butterflies group; Sony Ericsson fleshing out the PlayNow™ Arena catalogue with five million new titles by signing with 10 of the biggest labels; the announcement of French market figures by the SNEP, and of the best overseas sales by the French Music Export Office; and the annual IFPI report on digital music.
The MIDEM concerts were also a great success with 22,500 attendees. Highpoints included several upcoming artists scheduled during the new MIDEM Talent Only event: the young Danish band Dúné, who also won a European Border Breaker Award, Yael Naim, The Black & White Years, Phoebe Killdeer and The Short Straws, Drugs, Pascale Picard Band, Dragonette, Aronas, Astrid Swan, Gemma Ray and Morley. Classical and jazz hits included Ibrahim Maalouf, Paddy Milner, Géraldine Laurent and Bojan Gorisek.
The rest of the schedule also had its share of new discoveries and exceptional performances, including that of young American soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony and a concert by Italian marching funk band Funk Off. Current trends were represented by a performance by the Javier Limon Band during the Latin evening, by sets from Reverend & The Makers, Tawiah and Richard Hawley during the “British at MIDEM” event, and Christian Prommer’s Drumlessons and a performance by Dennis Ferrer within the framework of the Electronic Clubs. Other standout moments included the “Music China” opening event and the Pschent closer, as well as the 9th edition of the NRJ Music Awards.
The big winner at the listening session organized at MIDEM in collaboration with Activision, band The Answer, signed to PIAS, will see its title “Never too Late” in a future edition of Guitar Hero.
Download photos from MIDEM from:
http://www.midemphotos2008.com/client/web/index.html
Watch MIDEM and MidemNet conferences on http://www.midemnetblog.com
The 43rd edition of MIDEM will be held in Cannes from 18-22 January 2009.
For more information on MIDEM: http://www.midem.com
Note to Editors
Founded in 1963, Reed MIDEM is a leading organiser of professional, international tradeshows. Reed MIDEM events have established themselves as key dates in professional diaries. The company hosts MIPTV featuring MILIA, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, and MIPCOM JUNIOR for the television and digital content industries, AMAZIA devoted to the creation and distribution of entertainment content, MIDEM for music professionals, MIPIM, MIPIM Asia, MIPIM HORIZONS and MAPIC for the property and retail real estate sectors.
Reed MIDEM is a division of Reed Exhibitions, the world’s leading events organiser Reed organises a wide range of events, including exhibitions, conferences, congresses and meetings. Its portfolio of over 500 events serves 47 industry sectors. In 2007 Reed brought together over six million industry professionals from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held in 38 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and organised by 39 fully staffed offices.
For further information about Reed MIDEM visit www.reedmidem.com.
For more information please contact:
Reed MIDEM
Jane GARTON, Press Manager
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 90 44 39, Email: jane.garton@reedmidem.com
Mélanie AIGLE, Press Officer
Tel : +33 (0)1 41 90 49 95, Email : melanie.aigle@reedmidem.com
Fax: +33 (0)1 41 90 67 24
www.midem.com
This year’s international music market brought together 9,093 participants and 4,545 companies from 88 countries. Reflecting the main trends in the industry, MIDEM 2008 saw increased attendance in three key sectors: the biggest hikes were in the digital sector, up 18%; the live sector, up 21% and music management which saw attendance rise by 4%.
“MIDEM has responded to the needs of an industry undergoing a profound revolution. It has succeeded in attracting all sectors in the value chain by creating new events like MIDEM Talent Only and the International Manager Summit, and by continuing to offer both a series of top-level debates, a high-quality place for exchange and many concerts,” says Dominique Leguern, Director of MIDEM. “This year, MIDEM 2008 has again been the platform of choice for many major industry announcements,” she adds.
The highpoints of this 42nd edition were numerous, including the prestigious MIDEM opening evening hosted by China; the Personality of the Year Award presented to Peter Gabriel during a gala dinner which included performances by artists from his Real World label; the presence of celebrated German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig as patron of MIDEM Classique & Jazz, who was also honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the MIDEM Classical Awards; and the first MIDEM Green World Awards presented to three pioneers of a more environmentally-friendly live sector: Kevin Wall, founder and CEO of Live Earth (USA), Henrik Rasmussen, Director of the Roskilde Festival (Denmark) and Daniel Rossellat, President of the Paléo Festival Nyon (Switzerland).
The 9th MidemNet, the international forum for discussion on new music technologies and economic models, beat all attendance records. A total of 1,398 participants – up 6% - came to hear the views of key industry players including Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi (France); Bob Ezrin, Producer & Chairman, Live Nation Recordings (USA); Chad Hurley, Co-Founder & CEO, YouTube (USA); Janus Friis, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Joost, Co-Founder, KaZaA & Skype (UK); Prof. Lawrence Lessig, author of “Free Culture” & CEO, Creative Commons (USA); Joanna Shields, Global President, Bebo (USA); Tero Ojanpera, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Nokia (Finland) and Jim O’Mahony, CEO EMEA, Asia, Australasia & Latin America, Saatchi & Saatchi (USA).
During the first International Manager Summit, U2 manager Paul McGuinness made waves with his appearance, during which he called on ISPs to take responsibility for sharing internet revenues with music content providers.
This year, MIDEM was once again the preferred platform for major industry announcements, including the Qtrax campaign launch; the announcement by the French Culture Minister Christine Albanel of her “Plan for the Future of the Music Industry”; the launch of “Independence Day” for independents, an initiative from the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN); the announcement of the new Impala board; the agreement between SACEM and Universal Music Publishing Group to make the French rights collection body the sole receiver for UMPG’s European digital rights; the agreement between Omnifone’s MusicStation service, EMI, and the British and German royalty collection societies, PRS and Gema respectively; the agreement for online and mobile licensing between Spanish and British rights collection societies, SGAE and MCPS-PRS Alliance respectively; the Asian expansion of the on-line licensing platform Ricall via a partnership with the Ocean Butterflies group; Sony Ericsson fleshing out the PlayNow™ Arena catalogue with five million new titles by signing with 10 of the biggest labels; the announcement of French market figures by the SNEP, and of the best overseas sales by the French Music Export Office; and the annual IFPI report on digital music.
The MIDEM concerts were also a great success with 22,500 attendees. Highpoints included several upcoming artists scheduled during the new MIDEM Talent Only event: the young Danish band Dúné, who also won a European Border Breaker Award, Yael Naim, The Black & White Years, Phoebe Killdeer and The Short Straws, Drugs, Pascale Picard Band, Dragonette, Aronas, Astrid Swan, Gemma Ray and Morley. Classical and jazz hits included Ibrahim Maalouf, Paddy Milner, Géraldine Laurent and Bojan Gorisek.
The rest of the schedule also had its share of new discoveries and exceptional performances, including that of young American soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony and a concert by Italian marching funk band Funk Off. Current trends were represented by a performance by the Javier Limon Band during the Latin evening, by sets from Reverend & The Makers, Tawiah and Richard Hawley during the “British at MIDEM” event, and Christian Prommer’s Drumlessons and a performance by Dennis Ferrer within the framework of the Electronic Clubs. Other standout moments included the “Music China” opening event and the Pschent closer, as well as the 9th edition of the NRJ Music Awards.
The big winner at the listening session organized at MIDEM in collaboration with Activision, band The Answer, signed to PIAS, will see its title “Never too Late” in a future edition of Guitar Hero.
Download photos from MIDEM from:
http://www.midemphotos2008.com/client/web/index.html
Watch MIDEM and MidemNet conferences on http://www.midemnetblog.com
The 43rd edition of MIDEM will be held in Cannes from 18-22 January 2009.
For more information on MIDEM: http://www.midem.com
Note to Editors
Founded in 1963, Reed MIDEM is a leading organiser of professional, international tradeshows. Reed MIDEM events have established themselves as key dates in professional diaries. The company hosts MIPTV featuring MILIA, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, and MIPCOM JUNIOR for the television and digital content industries, AMAZIA devoted to the creation and distribution of entertainment content, MIDEM for music professionals, MIPIM, MIPIM Asia, MIPIM HORIZONS and MAPIC for the property and retail real estate sectors.
Reed MIDEM is a division of Reed Exhibitions, the world’s leading events organiser Reed organises a wide range of events, including exhibitions, conferences, congresses and meetings. Its portfolio of over 500 events serves 47 industry sectors. In 2007 Reed brought together over six million industry professionals from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held in 38 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and organised by 39 fully staffed offices.
For further information about Reed MIDEM visit www.reedmidem.com.
For more information please contact:
Reed MIDEM
Jane GARTON, Press Manager
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 90 44 39, Email: jane.garton@reedmidem.com
Mélanie AIGLE, Press Officer
Tel : +33 (0)1 41 90 49 95, Email : melanie.aigle@reedmidem.com
Fax: +33 (0)1 41 90 67 24
www.midem.com
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