At the first in-person Music Biz since the pandemic hit, talk swirled around artists’ growing role in release strategies and where potentially-transformative new technologies may lead the ind…
Even in conversations had on the convention floor, most people — from artists themselves, to managers, to A&R reps, to DSP providers — seemed to be excited about the prospect of power being placed back into the hands of those creating music for themselves. But some offered a more skeptical outlook, wondering whether or not this newly-minted status of importance for artists was a bonafide change sweeping through the industry, or yet another trend that would fall by the wayside.
But a larger throughline seemed to be about what’s coming next from a digital standpoint, and how the industry can position itself to take advantage of it. Several conversations revolved around the buzzwords of the day — NFTs, the metaverse, web3 — but one digital marketing executive was able to put spatial audio, another recent breathless industry topic, into focus from a consumer perspective.
“Think about yourself in a video game and you can feel the sounds around you, or you’re in a concert and you can hear it all around you,” this person said. “That’s what we’re preparing for. The labels know it’s not just about the physical experience, which is what we know. It’s also about the metaverse experience, which we don’t know.
If the metaverse has any advantage over streaming platforms, it’s licensing. As one insider explained, metaverse companies don’t have to — and don’t want to — license entire catalogs from rights holders. That eliminates a great deal of legal and financial resources streaming platforms must commit for the content that runs their businesses. Rather, the metaverse is about connecting fans with individual artists, not massive catalogs.
Not that people have the metaverse figured out. Or NFTs. In fact, people at Music Biz were surprisingly quick to acknowledge they don’t know how these emerging products will shake out over time. Exactly how we will get from point A to point B remains to be seen. But people agreed that the metaverse and NFTs are potentially transformative for the music business — and nobody wants to get left behind.
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