Indeed, while the commercial viability of dance music isn’t making waves like it did during the EDM heyday, the scene has in ways never felt healthier.

And when two of the biggest musical icons in pop history looked for reinvention this year, they came to clubland. Meanwhile, dance clubs and festivals are doing “ amazingly well,” after an existentially fraught two years from which other realms of live events are still struggling to return.

In the United States, dance and electronic music made up just 3.3% of total recorded music volume in 2021, which means that all of our efforts - all of our emails, all of our late nights and all of our sweat expelled on the dancefloor - are contributing to a scene that’s perhaps easy for other sectors to write off as humble, hard to see, “not the commercial juggernaut it once was.”īut inside it doesn’t feel that way, does it? Inside, it seems that new genres are developing, new markets are opening and new stars are breaking through while veterans are finding success in reinvention. It’s perhaps hard for all of us entrenched in the dance universe to bear in mind what a small world it ultimately is, statistically speaking.

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