Dates and location for Music Biz 2025 in Atlanta announced

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In 2025, the year The music business The conference will take place May 12-15 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel.

The conference attracts more than 2,300 music industry executives each year and has been held in Nashville for nearly a decade. The 2024 conference begins this week in Nashville, May 13-16.

President of the Music Business Association Portia Sabin announced the new dates and location during his Music Biz Brunch keynote at the Music Biz conference Tuesday morning (May 14), held at the JW Marriott Nashville.

Sabin already said Billboard that the conference’s move from Nashville to Atlanta was inspired by the September 2022 debut of the Music Biz Roadshow program, which has already visited cities like Atlanta, Dallas and Miami.

“With the Music Biz Roadshow, we bring our members to different cities across the United States for free educational programs for artists and musicians,” Sabin said. Billboard. “It inspired us because there are so many great music cities in the United States”

Starting in 2025, the Music Biz event will return to the way the conference was scheduled when it was then called NARM, when the conference frequently moved to a new city.

“We’ll probably do a two-year program, staying in one city for two years before going to another city,” Sabin said. Sabin noted that the conference could potentially be hosted in cities like Miami and San Diego in the future.

The Music Biz conference panel on Tuesday, May 14 includes a wide range of topics impacting the industry today, including neighboring rights, metadata, catalog sales and the growing popularity of synchronized Latin music.

In 2013, the organization formerly known as the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) was renamed the Music Business Association. The conference spent four years in Los Angeles before moving the conference to Nashville in 2015. The Music Business Association’s headquarters continues to be based in Nashville.