Forbes' annual 30 Under 30 list has hosted some of the hottest young talents ranging across a variety of industries. For this year's music category, Forbes has chosen to honor Illenium. Illenium is the only electronic musician to be nominated under the music category. Other nominees include Tyler, The Creator, Lil Nas X, Normani, Lauv, and Jon Bellion. The 28-year-old … [Read more...]
Post Malone, Yaeji, Lil Pump, Monstercat Founders & More Featured in Forbes 30 Under 30: Music
The highly sought after Forbes 30 under 30 is a who's who of the respective industry. Forbes released their 30 under 30 of the music world and it is filled with chart-toppers, behind the scenes marketing gurus, and the managers behind some of the world's biggest music stars. Check out some of our notables below and check out the entire 2019 list here. Yaeji Since breaking … [Read more...]
Find Out How Much Travis Scott, Drake, Kendrick Lamar + More Rappers Made this Past Year
Forbes just recently released their latest list of highest paid celebrities over the past year, with the new edition of a list specifically acknowledging the highest grossing acts in hip-hop music. Considering how prevalent rap has become in music culture in general, we thought it would be interesting to outline some notable mentions and where they stand with their peers. See … [Read more...]
Forbes Releases 30 Under 30 2018 List Featuring Marshmello, Khalid, And More
Every year, business magazine Forbes releases its 30 Under 30 list recognizing 600 of the brightest business professionals in 20 different industries. The elite list had over 15,000 nominations this year, making it more competitive than most colleges in the country with an acceptance rate of less than 4%. Last year's list included Chance The Rapper manager Pat Corcoran, … [Read more...]
Forbes Announces the Top Earning DJs of 2016
For the past few years Forbes has compiled a list of who the top earning DJs are for the current year. For the most part the names don't really change a whole lot. In 2016 Calvin Harris remains the cash king earning $25 million more than second place Tiesto who still made $38 million this year. Skrillex and Diplo both hit the list cashing in over $20 million a piece off of … [Read more...]
Forbes releases ‘Electronic Cash Kings 2015’ : The World’s Highest Paid DJs
Forbes just released their list of the 12 highest paid DJ's of 2015. The total income for one calendar year was calculated after adding everything from live shows, merchandise sales, endorsements, recorded music sales and various other external business adventures. It seems that the amount that DJs are making is finally starting to plateau after more than doubling from 2012 … [Read more...]
Forbes releases ‘Electronic Cash Kings 2014’ : The World’s Highest Paid DJs
Forbes recently released its list of 2014's highest paid DJs, in which they highlighted the 13 DJs that made the most money from their respective DJ careers. Forbes calculated the total income for one calendar year based on a variety of money-making ventures. Our estimates for the Electronic Cash Kings list include earnings from live shows, merchandise sales, … [Read more...]
Smartphones Could Be Powered by Sound
Today, Forbes published an interesting article on some research being carried out at Queen Mary University of London on behalf of Nokia. Researchers there are fine-tuning techniques to produce materials that may one day (soon) help power smartphones using ambient noise-- including (and most especially) music. That's right... in the not-so-distant future, our phones and other … [Read more...]
