May 13th - 19th is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 🌸

Research has shown that people working in the music industry are more prone to mental health problems, so we wanted to highlight some of the amazing work and support offered by various charities in the industry:

🙌 MEMBER BENEFIT 🙌
⏳ Primavera Sound starts in a little over two weeks... Don't forget that Primavera Pro offers discounted rates for WIN associations and their members!
🎟️ Contact your national trade association to access the discount!

🧠 For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek (13-19 May), IMPALA highlights key industry initiatives to help:

✨ @wearemitc
✨ Key Changes Music Therapy
✨ Help Musicians
✨ Music Support
✨ Mental Health in Music (DE)
✨ Attitude is Everything
✨ Parenthood in Music (DE)
✨ Minding Creative Minds

Great to see IMPALA's EDI task force member Ben Wynter (Power Up / AIM) at Wide Days in Edinburgh.

It was brilliant to host a panel at Wide Days festival in Edinburgh. Discussing challenges facing the industry and reasons to remain cheerful with representatives from European Music Managers Alliance (EMMA), IMPALA and the Association for Electronic Music.

📸 Jannica Honey // Wide Days

In Edinburgh for Wide Days... 3 days of networking, collaboration and discovery. Catching up with familiar faces and meeting some new ones! ✨🎶

Ben Wynter IMPALA

Congratulations are in order for our outstanding members who have been recognized as leaders, movers and shakers in the global music industry!

Cheers to the Billboard International Power Players of 2024!
🔗See the list of members here: bit.ly/3JJnrtA

#billboard

🇪🇺 On May 9, Liveurope, Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024, and European Commission organise their #EuropeDay celebrations at AB - Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.

Join the evening for an exciting expert panel on the future of the European music sector. 👇 [1/2]

Great article featuring IMPALA board member Kees van Weijen (STOMP) about how labels help artists stand out. How their skills, expertise and identity make the difference.

Read the article by EB Nieuws (NL) 👇
tinyurl.com/yvps38sk

Live at Wide Days in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 IMPALA's board member Paulina Parvanov (@indies_at / Waves Festival) chairs an interesting panel about the Czech music scene.

Programme 👉 bit.ly/3QuPSj0

✅ IMPALA & John are pleased to release their third Strategic Primer on Apple Music to provide independent labels with comprehensive intelligence on how to maximise key streaming opportunities & visibility for their artists.

Report for members 👉 bit.ly/3TpWnmG

En unos días viajo a 🇨🇴Colombia para participar en el BIME y organizar una serie de actividades con WIN para consolidar las iniciativas de asociatividad y promover la colaboración institucional con el sector discográfico independiente. ¡Nos vemos en Bogotá!

Interesting question by Ibán García 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 to the European Commission on music streaming services reforming their royalty allocation models, and the concerns they raise.

Read more 👇&👉 tinyurl.com/4vzveky6