Future Music Forum Barcelona: The Opportunity in Social Music Gaming

One of the fastest emerging sectors today is in Social Music Gaming. Looking at Facebook alone, 53 percent of users have played a game on the platform – that is 290 million people each month accessing games through this single channel. In addition, music on Facebook is more popular now than ever before. The top 10 artists on Facebook have a cumulative following of over 314 million fans. This is certainly a major area for the future of music business & the future the digital music industry

Future Music Forum Barcelona : Let the Games Begin

Music and social gaming:

Long since the days of Rally-X & Space Invaders music and gaming have had a intertwinging relationship destined to be together together one day in harmony , sorry, couldn’t help it. Along came the Commodore 64 in the early 1980′s which was the first console to have a 4-bit sample on a fourth sound channel.

Then came what you would call a small boom in the computer gaming industry with artists making names for themselves as the quality of their composition was improved, by the late 80′s video game music was being sold as cassette tape soundtracks in Japan, fast forward ahead past the chiptune and to the MOD-format which basically made it easy for anyone to produce music based on digitised samples. Super Nintendo / Sega / Playstation /took music in gaming to a new level whereby full audio CD’s could be used during the game, even John Williams went on to compose the game soundtrack for the Star Wars games.

Music Streaming made specifically for games and previously released music streams are now commonly used  in games today which is now becoming a great way of releasing music to new ears as games are becoming the preferred choice of entertainment for a youth culture. The future of music business?, not quite, but a huge part of it.

Midem 2011 hosted a panel on Social Gaming & how the music industry and the social gaming industry can explore new opportunities. We continue with that theme with 2 of the speakers that were present at that session, and two music entrepreneurs, Juha Hynynen CEO of SongHi Entertainment in Finland and Albin Serviant CEO of MXP4 from France, Albin is adamant that the music industry should be following the gaming industry. He mentions & I fully agree with his comment that the ‘Music Industry is still lagging when it comes to the proactively developing new business models’, might this be simply because the music industry was run by cowboys until recently?, just a question but it makes you wonder. The gaming industry has evolved constantly and kept up with the tech trends of today and now is at the forefront of the battle to bring music up to par.

With Zynga, the social gaming powerhouse now aggressively moving into the music space with Gagaville, the music industry executives are knocking at their door, and no wonder, with more than 250 million users a month, there is an interactive, social audience just waiting to be pitched new music. Snoop doog, Dr.Dre have all contributed to this new phenomenon but the music industries biggest asset Lady Gaga hitting the games world with Gagaville, http://bit.ly/iA352C
this is a notable escalation of the industries involvement. Lady Gaga will be selling virtual items throughout the game, promoting her new album through previews of songs & the link in with pre paid game cards at Best Buy, this is such an interesting exercise for the music industry exploring new ways of business.

Let the games begin…..

Future Music Forum Barcelona: New Breed of Digital Music Conferences

With the changing face of the music sector a new form of business has developed, that of the music conference, or better yet, to spell it out for those who don’t already know we live in a digital world, digital music conferences.

Future Music Forum Barcelona: Music Conferences 2011

Winter music conferences

are numerous & far reaching, from Miami to Shanghai, thats why we prefer to put the Future Music Forum Barcelona a little earlier than the crowd. If you are not familiar with the conference it is loosely based off the the digital music conferences in San Francisco.

Future Music Forum Primaverasounds Barcelona 2011

Yes, Its here, another edition of our favourite Spanish festival has crept up on us again. Although it means ‘spring sounds Barcelona’, its always the first sign that summer has arrived in Barcelona

Future Music Forum Barcelona : Open For Business

On May 3rd The Future Music Forum Officially opened ticket sales. Last year proved to be a very successful launch, for the 2nd edition we believe we have stepped up the quality & focus of the event.

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