Viberate’s State of Music 2022 report provides insight into how ‘electronic acts dominated festivals in 2021’

The electronic music industry has grown by leaps and bounds in both popularity and global acceptance over the past few years. Well, it turns out that the year 2021 was specifically a massive time for the industry, as an interesting report called the music status from the famous music analysis platform Viber just revealed that electronic acts have been booked in the majority of all genres at festivals held in the calendar year. The report even claimed that ICT Tac is the new SoundCloud for emerging artists.

The combined State of Music report also revealed genre-specific insights with house of technology come out as the most popular Beatport gender for the third consecutive year. Among the 10 fastest growing labels, Anjunadeep, Sink or swimand Department of Sound Recordings took the top three spots, and seven of those top 10 labels are tech-house focused. Except that, melodic house and techno, techno (driving/rush hours), lodgeand drums and bass were among the top five genres.

With State of Music poised to become an annual adventure, here’s what UMEKthe co-founder of Viberate had to say about it –

“We are always happy to present data findings among expert opinions. Data is objective and paints an unbiased picture of someone or something’s popularity. Music consumption has increased in 2021, so my goal for 2022 is to use the data results to try and improve my stats even further – and I encourage others to do the same.

Be sure to check out State of Music’s full report here and let us know what you think in the comments below.

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— Viberate (@viberate) January 24, 2022

Image credit: EXIT Festival (via Facebook)