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Music festival
Music festival: multi-act live music event lasting days, ancient Greek origins, modernized by Woodstock (1969); examples include Glastonbury (over 200,000 attendees) and Coachella ($114.6 million gross, 2017); covers economics, community impact, and sustainability.
Music festival editions and year series
A music festival's year series is the record of its editions, the individual yearly stagings of a recurring festival, together with the years it was founded, paused, renamed, or ended.
Music festivals in Australia
Music festivals in Australia number 535 in 2022–23, concentrated on the east coast and led by electronic music, though rising costs have collapsed flagship events like Bluesfest since 2023.
Music festivals in Canada
Music festivals in Canada are recurring multi-artist events that form a major part of the live music industry, with counts ranging from about 200 major festivals to 1,258 listings.
Music festivals in China, Korea and Mongolia
Music festivals in China, Korea and Mongolia are music festivals in East Asia, including Midi, Strawberry, Incheon Pentaport, and Playtime, a major income source since 2007.
Music festivals in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Music festivals in Eastern and Southeastern Europe include Sziget in Hungary, EXIT in Serbia, and Electric Castle in Romania, ranging from mega-events to village brass-band contests.
Music festivals in France, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
Music festivals in France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal span open-air opera in Roman amphitheatres, large rock and electronic gatherings, and jazz events such as Umbria Jazz.
Music festivals in Germany
Music festivals in Germany are around 1,800 regularly held events staging about 51,000 acts yearly, drawing 32 million visits in 2015, led by Rock am Ring and Wacken Open Air.
Music festivals in Ireland
Music festivals in Ireland are multi-genre summer events in the Republic of Ireland, anchored by seven or more major festivals drawing roughly 200,000 gig-goers a year, led by Electric Picnic.
Music festivals in Scandinavia and Central Europe
Music festivals in Scandinavia and Central Europe include Denmark's nonprofit Roskilde Festival, Oslo's Øyafestivalen, Budapest's Sziget on a Danube island, and the classical Prague Spring, running since 1946.
Music festivals in South and Southeast Asia
Music festivals in South and Southeast Asia are recurring public events, from century-old Indian classical congregations to state-backed tribal showcases in Nagaland and large commercial pop and electronic festivals across Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Music festivals in the United States
Music festivals in the United States are recurring multi-day events presenting many acts on multi-day passes, from EDC Las Vegas's 500,000 attendees to free Musikfest's 1.3 million.
Music for People Who Believe in Love
Music for People Who Believe in Love is Joe Jonas's second solo album, released on May 23, 2025, and his first since Fastlife in 2011.
Music for the Jilted Generation
Music for the Jilted Generation, the Prodigy's second studio album, released 4 July 1994 on XL Recordings. Liam Howlett's protest-era breakbeat techno record reached number one on the UK album chart and preceded The Fat of the Land.
Music for the Masses
Music for the Masses is Depeche Mode's sixth studio album, released 28 September 1987 on Mute; produced with David Bascombe, it peaked at UK number 10, went platinum in the US, and preceded the Music for the Masses Tour.
Music for the Requiem Mass
Music for the Requiem Mass: settings of the Catholic Mass for the Dead, named from the Introit 'Requiem aeternam', standardized by Pius V in 1570, from chant and polyphony to concert works by Mozart, Brahms, Verdi, Fauré, and Britten.
Music from "The Elder"
Music from "The Elder" is Kiss's ninth studio album, released November 10, 1981 on Casablanca: a Bob Ezrin-produced art-rock concept album from Gene Simmons's story, Kiss's first US album that failed to go gold.
Music from Big Pink
Music from Big Pink is the Band's 1968 debut album (Capitol SKAO-2955), named for a pink house in West Saugerties, New York, where the group made the Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan, who painted its cover.
Music from the Edge of Heaven
Music from the Edge of Heaven is the 1986 Columbia album, Wham!'s final studio LP, produced by George Michael and recorded at Sarm West; its UK counterpart was the compilation The Final.
Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023)
Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) is Aphex Twin's 38-track, 2:36:05 digital compilation (Warp, WARPDA389, 17 December 2024) collecting vinyl previously sold only at his live shows.
Music genre
Music genre: conventional categories grouping music by style, instrumentation, and cultural function. Also called musical genres; no formal definition exists, categories are fuzzy and partly non-musical, and genre drives MIR classification and streaming metadata.
Music hall
Music hall was a British popular theatrical entertainment of singers, comedians, and specialty acts, flourishing from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War; its North American equivalent was vaudeville.
Music in Africa Foundation
The Music in Africa Foundation (MIAF) is a pan-African non-profit organization registered in South Africa in 2014, operating the musicinafrica.net platform and the annual ACCES music conference.
Music in rhythm and music-based games
Music in rhythm and music-based games is gameplay where music is the mechanic: songs become note charts, timing is judged within millisecond windows, and licensing shapes the song roster.
Music industries of Southeast Asia
The music industries of Southeast Asia are the recorded-music, publishing, and live-music markets of the ASEAN countries, a streaming-first region valued at USD 1.39 billion in 2025.
Music industry
Music industry: the businesses of recorded music, publishing, and live performance, dominated by three major record companies with indies at ~30% of the global recorded market. Revenues hit $31.7B in 2025 after shrinking 40% during 1999–2014 piracy, with streaming at 69.6% of income and 837M paid subscribers.
Music industry of Croatia and the Yugoslav successor states
The music industry of Croatia and the Yugoslav successor states was a single Yugoslav market until the country's dissolution, and the six national markets remain highly connected today.
Music industry of Latin America
The music industry of Latin America covers recorded- and live-music markets across Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking America; revenues grew 17.1% in 2025, its 16th straight growth year.
Music industry of Nigeria
The music industry of Nigeria is the commercial system producing and monetizing Nigerian music, driven since the mid-2010s by Afrobeats and worth about $600 million in 2024.
Music industry of the United States
The music industry of the United States is the world's largest music economy, producing over a third of global recorded music revenue, worth $17.1 billion at retail in 2023.