Music Business News: Germany

82% of festival-goers ‘feel confident’ to return to live events after COVID-19 lockdown is lifted (report)

110,000 festival-goers from countries such as the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands were surveyed

BMG launches neighboring rights service, The Who’s Roger Daltrey signs up

Heading the new service is VP Operations Strategy David Miller

Germany’s Reeperbahn Festival is… not cancelled, will go ahead in September ‘in compliance with all social distancing and hygiene regulations’

"Naturally, the protection and safety of our visitors, partners, artists and employees is still paramount."

German music business demands nearly $630m in government aid to avoid ‘coronavirus collapse’

'The music industry with all its facets, has never faced such a serious and existential situation.'

Pan-European licensing hub ICE launches new self-service ‘Licensr’ tool

New tool enables smaller online music services to get multi-territory coverage for use of the ICE Core repertoire

Rock am Ring, Rock im Park & Wacken festivals cancelled as Germany bans major events until August 31

Events posted the news on their respective websites today (April 16)

Germany set to ban major events until end of August 2020 (report)

Reported ban would affect major music festivals in Germany

Spotify enables more artists & businesses to run audio ads as self-serve ‘Ad Studio’ moves out of beta and expands into 18 new markets

'Ad Studio marks the start of a new chapter.'