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On 13 January, the renowned Music Festival Eurosonic/Noorderslag opened in Groningen (NL) with the European Border Breaker Awards (EBBA). The event is Europe’s main festival/conference for the music sector and features some 300 performances on 36 stages throughout the city, over 150 panels and some 4 000 music professionals.

In light of the Dutch presidency of the European Union this semester (1 January to 30 June 2016), and Eurosonic’s 30^th anniversary, this edition was set to attract big names. In fact, the First Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, presented the public choice award to the Latvian band Carnival Youth during the EBBA ceremony.

GESAC’s President (and CEO of our Belgian member Sabam), Christophe Depreter, attended Eurosonic where he met European Commission and Dutch Presidency officials, and participated in panels.

Brussels, 07/01/2014 – A new study published by EY (formerly Ernst & Young) shows that more than 7m Europeans are directly employed by CCIs. CCIs are the 3rd largest employer in the EU and attract young workers. Read more 

Press release -17.10.2014- Joint Nordic Digital Music Survey 2014

THE FOUR Nordic countries – Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, with a combined population of 26 million – are forerunners in the shift to digital music consumption, a new study finds. An estimated 8 million Nordic consumers (Internet users aged 15 to 65) have used music streaming services such as Spotify or Wimp in the past 12 months.

SPOTIFY alone is estimated to have 7 million users in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. While the survey reports use in the past 12 months, this is nevertheless a significant number compared to Spotify’s 40 million active monthly users worldwide 1. All in all, 78% of Nordic Internet users aged 15 to 65 are digital music consumers (an estimated 13.8 million), having used services such as YouTube, Spotify, Wimp or iTunes for accessing music content at some time in the past 12 months.

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