{"id":6769,"date":"2015-09-09T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T21:38:29","slug":"beats-for-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/09\/beats-for-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Beats for Billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/10\/arts\/international\/an-unprecedented-success-for-electronic-dance-music-and-its-djs.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>An Unprecedented Success for Electronic Dance Music and Its D.J.s<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"STEPHEN HEYMAN\">STEPHEN HEYMAN<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/09\/10\/arts\/10iht-btnumbers10\/10iht-btnumbers10-master1050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em><span class=\"credit\">Laurent Cilluffo <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Late last month, Forbes published its list of the world\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zackomalleygreenburg\/2015\/08\/24\/the-worlds-highest-paid-djs-electronic-cash-kings-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">top-earning D.J.s<\/a>. Calvin Harris, 31, who less than a decade ago was stocking groceries in a Scottish supermarket, came in first place, earning $66 million over a 12-month period beginning in June last year through club fees, endorsement deals and music royalties. That\u2019s more than what Jay Z ($56 million) or Kim Kardashian ($52.5 million) grossed in the same period, and it\u2019s one of many recent indications that EDM, or electronic dance music \u2014 once the commercially marginal soundtrack to underground parties \u2014 has reached an impressive new level of mainstream success.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Watson, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceonomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">analyst<\/a> in London for the International Music Summit (an electronic music industry trade event held yearly on the Spanish island of Ibiza) now estimates the global value of EDM to be $6.9 billion \u2014 about a 50 percent jump since 2013. \u201cHere in the U.K., we\u2019ve had peaks of interest before but we have seen nothing like the global cultural exposure and move into the mainstream as we have in the last two years,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been absolutely phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/10\/arts\/international\/an-unprecedented-success-for-electronic-dance-music-and-its-djs.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times An Unprecedented Success for Electronic Dance Music and Its D.J.s By STEPHEN HEYMAN Laurent Cilluffo Late last month, Forbes published its list of the world\u2019s top-earning D.J.s. Calvin Harris, 31, who less than a decade ago was stocking groceries in a Scottish supermarket, came in first place, earning $66 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}