Music Biz 2024 Day Three Includes Bizzy Awards, Metadata Summit, More

/by

Portia Sabin. Photo: Jason Mallory

The Music Business Association continued Music Biz 2024 with a busy day three on Wednesday (May 15). Attendees were treated to more roadshow panels, tracks, the Metadata Summit and more throughout the day. At night, the industry gathered for the 2024 Bizzy Awards.

The Metadata Summit kicked off its 13th year with the keynote session “Collaboration on a Global Scale: Metadata Solutions to Increase Efficiency Worldwide.” In a conversation led by Susan Butler of Music Confidential, Mark Krajewski from PRS for Music, Declan Rudden from CISAC and Kim Beauchamp from Universal Music Group explored how to increase metadata efficiency worldwide. They also introduced a new plan to issue provisional ISWC codes to improve the speed and permanence of linking recording data to work data.

Metadata Summit – Keynote Session – “Collaboration on a Global Scale: Metadata Solutions to Increase Efficiency Worldwide.” Photo: Jason Mallory

Continuing the metadata day, Caroline Champarnaud from SACEM, Paul Gills from SoundExchange/SX Works, Mick Hayes from ICE, Harmen Hemminga from Downtown Music Group, Abby North from North Music Group, Alan Jennings from Amazon and Melanie Santa Rosa from Word Collections joined OpenPlay’s Jonathan Bender for a panel discussion regarding the plan introduced during the keynote session.

Metadata Summit – “Practitioners Perspective: Power Users’ Plans & Building Support Infrastructure.” Photo: Jason Mallory

Metadata was not the only topic explored throughout the day. Back on the theme of AI from the previous days, Andrea Gleeson of Tunecore moderated the AI Keynote Interview “Artificial Intelligence, Concrete Results: Music’s Next Uncharted Frontier,” featuring Meng Ru Kuok of BandLab Technologies.

“Artificial Intelligence, Concrete Results: Music’s Next Uncharted Frontier” – Keynote Conversation. Photo: Jason Mallory

In keynote conversation “The Greatest Good: Social Impact Is Good for Business,” Founder & President of Hopeless Records Louis Posen sat down with singer-songwriter Lachi of RAMP. The two explored Posen’s career journey, as well as The Hopeless Foundation, a 501C3 nonprofit organization focused on connecting music to important causes and initiatives.

“The Greatest Good: Social Impact Is Good for Business” – Keynote Conversation. Photo: Jason Mallory

Florian Drücke of Bundesverband Musikindustrie e.V., Steven Frank of SiriusXM, Priyanka Khimani of Khimani & Associates, Morgan Hayduk of Beatdapp and Dan Runcie of Trapital sat down for a panel conversation around the topic of fraud in the music industry. In the “31 Flavors of Fraud: The 2024 Version” panel, they talked about their own personal experiences with fraud and how you can protect yourself from it.

“Music Security Summit: Tackling Fraud in All Forms – 31 Flavors of Fraud: The 2024 Version.” Photo: Jason Mallory

Day three wrapped up with the 2024 Bizzy Awards dinner, hosted by Gina Miller, SVP & GM of MNRK Music Group. Award recipients include Cameo Carlson of mtheory, Larry Miller of New York Univeristy, Dae Bogan of The MLC and more. Click here for a full recap of the event.

Members of The MLC at the 2024 Bizzy Award Winners. Photo: Jason Mallory

Other day three panels included “SoundCloud’s Secret Sauce: The Behind-The Scenes of a Viral Track,” “Hit-making in 2024: Unique Journeys to the Top of the Charts” and more. Tracks for day three included “Glocals Only,” “Let’s Talk Physical,” “Streaming 2.0” and more.

Music Biz 2024 will conclude today (May 16) with panels featuring executives from SESAC, D Tour, Downtown Music and more. Tracks for the final day of programming include “Past, Publish, Future,” “Backstage 2.0,” “Disrupting The Norm” and more. The final day will also feature “Women in the Room: Music Biz Leadership Roundtables.”

Madison Hahnen
Latest posts by Madison Hahnen (see all)