Music Biz Convention to Return to Atlanta in 2026

With greater than 2,000 attendees converging on Atlanta for the annual Music Biz convention on the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Resort and Conference Middle Galleria, Music Enterprise Affiliation president Portia Sabin opened day 2 by reminding everybody of the “guiding perception” behind the Music Enterprise Affiliation and its convention — whereas revealing the convention will return to Atlanta subsequent 12 months.

“We’re all higher collectively,” Sabin proclaimed. “We all know we will obtain success and overcome any problem in our method after we come to the desk with open minds, foster collaboration, and develop options that really help each other.”

Sabin identified that the music trade has turn out to be actually international previously a number of years and, comparable to that, worldwide music firms now comprise one-fifth of Music Biz’s membership. What’s extra, she stated 15% of the attendees at this 12 months’s convention (which runs from Could 12-15) are from exterior the U.S: “That’s 250 people, representing 168 firms and over 30 nations, starting from Vietnam and Australia, to Japan and Egypt,” she stated.

So as to higher symbolize its membership and the worldwide music trade, “we’ve embraced this shift by internet hosting our digital Passport sequence — free webinars that dissect points in music markets throughout the globe — in addition to increasing our touring Roadshow sequence with our first worldwide occasion in Toronto this previous March,” Sabin added.

Lastly, Sabin identified that in getting ready to carry the convention in Atlanta during the last 12 months, Music Biz hosted quite a few mixers and meetups to “construct relationships with Atlanta’s vibrant music enterprise neighborhood. Most not too long ago, we partnered with the Mayor’s Workplace of Movie, Leisure and Nightlife for an occasion at Metropolis Corridor, to attach native & international music professionals and preview a number of the programming we provide at our convention.”

After holding the conference for the final 10 years in Nashville, the Music Biz convention is happening the highway once more, similar to its antecedent group, the Nationwide Assn. of Recording Merchandisers, did for many years by shifting the annual conference to varied cities. Nonetheless, Sabin revealed that Atlanta will host the conference once more subsequent 12 months, too, whereas thanking town and the resort for supporting it.

“Thanks to the workforce right here on the Renaissance for making this 12 months’s occasion potential, and to town of Atlanta for being such gracious hosts ever since we introduced plans to convey our convention right here in 2025 and 2026,” Sabin stated firstly of her remarks to attendees.