According to the event’s president Dominique Leguern, attendance of Midem was down 1,000 people to 8,000 this year. “As Chuck D said, it’s not a music industry crisis, it’s a CD crisis,” she said. “At Midem, we have lost physical distributors and manufacturers and small labels that have not been able to survive the economic [...]

Once again, MidemNet will be debating the future of music this year prior to Midem itself. Won’t the current financial mayhem only make life more difficult? What is left for music as a business? Well, I’d say the relatively good news is that music as a business has already sunk 50% in value since 2003. [...]

It’s actually quite rare to find music from Cannes at Midem itself. So it came as a surprise to find the town of Cannes actively plugging bands at their stand at Midem. Amongst these was the band Motel that bill themselves as “psychedelic electronic”. They released the album “Neo Luddite” through the Coming Soon label [...]

Originally posted Jan 11, 2006. Initiated some years ago, the Music for Images section of Midem has proven very popular. This reflects the fact that sales of recorded music have continued to slump, where as the new uses have provided real breakthroughs in advertising, games and cinema. Largely speaking, there are two levels to this [...]