24% of all music at events is now streamed

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I received this email from the "State of the DJ Industry Annual Survey" tonight.

"...did you know...
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..in the 2nd Annual State of the DJ Industry survey, it was revealed that "24 percent of all the music played at events is streamed with 5 percent of DJs streaming 100% of their music at events with no hard drive or hard copy as back up. The average DJ does 1.48 Mon-Thr weddings per year.....and a lot, lot more as a result of 1,000+ completed surveys from DJs just like you! "








Now, their survey only had something like 1648 responses so I don't think it's completely conclusive, but probably a pretty good indication of how DJs are facilitating music at events now.
 
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24% is 395.5 people ( I wonder who the half person was). 5% is 82.4 persons (.4 of a person). Based on knowledge of areas, I would assume these are club performers or major city mobile performers. I don't think this is anything other than a result of the people that responded - I don't believe this is an indication of anything 'industry wide'. Many people, like me, did not do the survey.

If these people are streaming with no backups / backup plans, I wonder what their plan is in the event of an Internet / ISP outage.
 
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Scott Hanna said:
40% of all polls are 50% wrong
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I agree that a lot of polls are not accurate. However, this particular survey is probably the ONLY survey conducted that directly involves professional DJs and the market.

I'm not sure you can find better data. I bet that 5% of DJs are streaming all of their music at events today. It's not unrealistic to believe that. I don't know how the 24% number got calculated. However, with these past few Holiday parties, I streamed a lot of Christmas music off of Spotify at each party during cocktail hour, and dinner. I may have streamed 24% of the music I played at each of those events. ...Actually, I probably did because at least 1 solid hour's worth of music was streamed at each of those parties from Spotify.
 
100% of polls are 100% opinion.
 
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I saw that report also, and I do not understand why people "stream".... other than they can save money,,,, but really, the possibilities of something going wrong, or being at a venue where you just can't, for whatever reason, is a reason not to stream... I don't get it.
 
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Chuck The DJ said:
I saw that report also, and I do not understand why people "stream".... other than they can save money,,,, but really, the possibilities of something going wrong, or being at a venue where you just can't, for whatever reason, is a reason not to stream... I don't get it.
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Today, I would agree, though if someone is streaming with a local backup plan, why not. It WILL be the norm in the very near future. Might not even have an option ..
 
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I will fetch requests at the event if need be. Did a last minute bar gig and lots of requests for stuff I don't normally have - it was back in august and cardi b was a biggie people wanted, another was stuff from astroworld.

Out here in the country reliable connections can be hard to come by. And for many events I want to pre-listen to the songs, like at school dances.

Last wedding I had requests for rammstien from the father of the bride...not something I would keep in inventory.

As for the popularity of streaming - go add up what you've spent over the years - I would bet dimes to dollars it's been on the music, right?

So a newbie can get into this wiht a laptop (or maybe a tablet these days) and some gemini speakers...no other investment needed. A coworker that DJs, oldschool mostly (stull uses CDs) but for mobile gigs uses these gemini speakers.

https://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro...luetooth-speaker?rNtt=gemini speaker&index=15

And they don't sound bad at all.

TRUST ME - there is a HUGE contingent of people out there that DO NOT buy music - and for anyone under, say, 20, never will.
 
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I have no problem streaming a song if I need it. Just dunt want to count on it.

I do agree with Steve that this will become the norm.

I have no problem streaming. Just not ready to count on it
 
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IceBurghDJ said:
What's interesting is, AFAIK, there is no legal way to stream for DJs...yet this isn't being mentioned anyplace.
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VDJ ContentUnlimited is linked to iDJPool, which from what I've heard, is completely legit. The video portion is linked to VJ-Pro (who runs Smashvision and is owned by Lodestar), which is 100% legit. Lodestar Entertainment LLC - (https://www.lodestar-entertainment.com) . I can't imagine VJ-Pro offering a service that violates their licensing agreements.

This came up in another thread, but I'm still 99% hard drive / 1% streaming for random requests, (usually from the headphone jack on my phone because I've always kept my gig laptop disconnected from Wifi).

If I were to subscribe to a streaming service, what would you guys recommend? Spotify? ContentUnlimited? Is Amazon music worth anything since I already have Prime? The only streaming I use for personal listening is the SiriusXM app (I guess I'm a terrible Millennial, ha.)
 
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Jim Davis said:
VDJ ContentUnlimited is linked to iDJPool, which from what I've heard, is completely legit. The video portion is linked to VJ-Pro (who runs Smashvision and is owned by Lodestar), which is 100% legit. Lodestar Entertainment LLC - (https://www.lodestar-entertainment.com) . I can't imagine VJ-Pro offering a service that violates their licensing agreements.

This came up in another thread, but I'm still 99% hard drive / 1% streaming for random requests, (usually from the headphone jack on my phone because I've always kept my gig laptop disconnected from Wifi).

If I were to subscribe to a streaming service, what would you guys recommend? Spotify? ContentUnlimited? Is Amazon music worth anything since I already have Prime? The only streaming I use for personal listening is the SiriusXM app (I guess I'm a terrible Millenial, ha.)
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It's tough, since the streaming services tend to have different versions these days than the pools, so my gut says the DJ ones (like ContentUnlimited) probably have a version closer to what a pool would have. Spotify is getting there.
 
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