Dance Industry Music Stories
Eight years of electronic music industry trends, visualised from the IMS Industry Insider newsletter archive.
Last updated on 10 February 2026
The Momentum Index
Who is rising — and falling — in industry visibility?
Open & Shut
Nightlife closures peaked in 2024, not during COVID.
Follow the Money
Capital flows shifted from venture funding to catalogue acquisitions.
The Editorial Lens
What your favourite publication covers — and what it misses.
The Pulse
Eight years of electronic music, week by week.
Entity Search
Search 10,039 artists, labels, festivals, and companies.
About this data
In an era of infinite content and algorithmic feeds, a hand-curated weekly digest becomes more valuable, not less. The IMS Industry Insider team have chosen what matters to this scene — every week, for eight years.
Every data point here is extracted from the IMS Industry Insider newsletter, published weekly since December 2017. Headlines are structured into events and linked to the entities they mention — artists, companies, festivals, clubs, labels, products, and people.
The six visualisations above explore venue openings and closures, deals and funding, editorial patterns across publications, entity visibility over time, and weekly intensity across eight years of industry news.
This is one publication's editorial lens on the industry — rich and longitudinal, but not comprehensive. Coverage skews toward established Western markets. Some time periods have thinner coverage than others.
Machine-readable version →Built from the IMS Industry Insider newsletter. By Audience Strategies, for the love of the scene.