Key Worldwide Music Industry Events List 2021

written by Emma Griffiths February 26, 2021

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We’ve put together the most comprehensive list out there of key music industry events / conferences worldwide. Bookmark it now.

We’re constantly updating the list to make sure you know about the latest music industry events in each city. As not all dates have been announced yet, please refer to our 2020 list to get an idea of what’s to come.

Whilst this list primarily focuses on music industry events, we’ve also added some key gaming, advertising, media and film events.

Want to get your event on the list? Drop us an email.

DATE	EVENT	LOCATION
January 2021
05/01/21 – 08/01/21	Virtual Sync Summit	Virtual
08/01/21 – 12/01/21	APAP\|NYC+	Virtual
10/01/21 – 17/01/21	Jackson Indie Music Week	Mississippi, USA
11/01/21 – 14/01/21	CES Asia 2021	Virtual
11/01/21 – 14/01/21	CES 2021	Virtual
13/01/21 – 16/01/21	Eurosonic Noorderslag	Virtual
19/01/21 – 22/01/21	NATPE Miami	Virtual
25/01/21 – 28/01/21	NY:LON Conference	Virtual
25/01/21 – 31/01/21	Independent Venue Week	Virtual
26/01/21 – 28/01/21	South African Music Week	Virtual
26/01/21 – 28/01/21	AmericanaFest UK	Virtual
28/01/21 – 30/01/21	Michigan Music Conference	Virtual
28/01/21 – 03/02/21	Sundance Film Festival	Virtual
31/01/21	Romanian Music Export	Virtual
February 2021
08/02/21 – 12/02/21	Digital Entertainment World (DEW)	Virtual
08/02/21 – 25/02/21	CSUSA Midwinter Meeting	Virtual
11/02/21	AIM SYNC	Virtual
13/02/21 – 16/02/21	Dover Lane Music Conference	Kolkata, India
15/02/21 – 18/02/21	Avant Première – Music and Media Market	Virtual
16/02/21 – 19/02/21	Country Radio Seminar	Virtual
16/02/21 – 20/02/21	Screen x Screen Music + Tech Conference	Virtual
18/02/21	Output Belfast	Virtual
18/02/21 – 20/02/21	Durango Songwriters Expo	Virtual
19/02/21 – 20/02/21	6th Annual 'State of Music in Media' Virtual Conference 2021	Virtual
22/02/21 – 24/02/21	ONGEA! The Eastern African Music Summit	Virtual
22/02/21 – 26/02/21	Folk Unlocked	Virtual
23/02/21 – 25/02/21	#NEXTGEN_U	Virtual
24/02/21 – 25/02/21	Selector PRO UK/Latin America	Virtual
24/02/21 – 26/02/21	8th Live Entertainment Expo TOKYO	On-site & virtual
25/02/21 – 27/02/21	NAfME 2021	Virtual
26/02/21 – 27/02/21	Millennium Music Conference & Showcase	Virtual
26/02/21 – 27/02/21	RIDE Conference	Virtual
26/02/21 – 28/02/21	Measure of Music	Virtual
27/02/21 – 28/02/21	Soma Skool	Virtual
March 2021
01/03/21 – 08/03/21	Abbey Road Equalise	Virtual
02/03/21	Green Events & Innovations Conference	Virtual
03/03/21 – 05/03/21	International Live Music Conference (ILMC)	Virtual
03/03/21 – 06/03/21	Catalyst Music Conference	Virtual
04/03/21	Phoenix Rising	Auckland, New Zealand
04/03/21 – 06/03/21	Insights - The Future of Music	Virtual
05/03/21 – 08/03/21	She Knows Tech Summit	Virtual
08/03/21 – 09/03/21	ADCOLOR in Music	Virtual
08/03/21 – 12/03/21	Latínica	Virtual
10/03/21 – 12/03/21	ABO Conference	Virtual
11/03/21	SoundCloud Forum	Virtual
11/03/21	AIM Connected	Virtual
11/03/21 – 12/03/21	Midem Latin American Forum	Virtual
12/03/21 – 24/03/21	vgmtogether	Virtual
16/03/21 – 20/03/21	SXSW Online	Virtual
17/03/21 – 26/03/21	Sauga City Music Festival	Virtual
19/03/21 – 28/03/21	WA Music Week	Perth, Australia & virtual
19/03/21 – 28/03/21	London Games Festival	Virtual
20/03/21	Canadian Music Expo - Spring Equinox Edition	Virtual
20/03/21 – 21/03/21	8th International Conference on New Music Concepts	Treviso, Italy
24/03/21 – 25/03/21	Botswana International Music Conference (BIMC)	Virtual
24/03/21 – 26/03/21	AFRIMA	Abidjan, West Africa
22/03/21 – 26/03/21	Karajan Music Tech	Virtual
24/03/21 – 26/03/21	m4music	Zürich, Switzerland
25/03/21	Third Annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit	Virtual
27/03/21 – 28/03/21	MUTEK JP	Kyoto, Japan
29/03/21	ONEFEST	Virtual
31/03/21	Music Week Tech Summit	Virtual
31/03/21 – 14/04/21	New York City International Film Festival	New York, USA
April 2021
07/04/21 – 10/04/21	Westway LAB	Guimarães, Portugal
09/04/21 – 11/04/21	Summit - Welsh Music Industry Conference	Virtual
10/04/21 – 11/04/21	Brasil Music Summit 2021	Virtual
11/04/21	11th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Virtual
12/04/21 – 16/04/21	Digital MIPTV	Virtual
13/04/21 – 15/04/21	#NEXTGEN_NOW	Virtual
15/04/21	A2IM's Pan-Am Indie Summit	Virtual
15/04/21 – 16/04/21	Future Music Camp	Virtual
19/04/21 – 23/04/21	37th Virtual DDEX Plenary Meeting	Virtual
20/04/21 – 22/04/21	Music Ally Japan Digital Summit	Virtual
20/04/21 – 22/04/21	Collision	Virtual
20/04/21 – 24/04/21	indie 101 music conference	Virtual
21/04/21 – 23/04/21	amplify music 2021	Virtual
21/04/21 – 24/04/21	WISE	Virtual
22/04/21 – 23/04/21	Inferno Music Conference	Virtual
22/04/21 – 24/04/21	c/o pop xoxo 2021	Virtual
25/04/21	Nigerian Entertainment Conference (NECLive)	Virtual
27/04/21 – 28/04/21	Proper Data Planning: Understanding Metadata’s Role In Promotions & Payouts	Virtual
27/04/21 – 30/04/21	LIVE MATTERS 2021	Virtual
28/04/21 – 29/04/21	UnitedMasters SelectCon	Virtual
29/04/21 – 02/05/21	jazzahead	Virtual
May 2021
03/05/21 – 08/05/21	MUTEK.ES+AR	Barcelona, Spain & Buenos Aires, Argentina
04/05/21	Supercharging Streams & Building Long Term Fans	Virtual
04/05/21 – 07/05/21	The LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference)	Virtual
05/05/21 – 07/05/21	Nordic Media Days	Virtual
06/05/21	Royalties Summit	Virtual
10/05/21 – 12/05/21	LA Games Conference	Virtual
12/05/21	Synchtank's Data, Rights & Royalties Summit	Virtual
13/05/21 – 14/05/21	The Great Escape	Virtual
15/05/21	INDUSTRY:FUEL	Virtual
16/05/21 – 19/05/21	Prolight + Sound Guangzhou	Guangzhou, China
18/05/21 – 20/05/21	Mastering the Music Business	Bucharest, Romania
18/05/21 – 21/05/21	INO CON 2021	Virtual
18/05/21 – 21/05/21	Canadian Music Week	Virtual
20/05/21 – 21/05/21	Winter Music Conference Virtual	Virtual
21/05/21 – 25/05/21	Cannes Lions 2021	Cannes, France
25/05/21 – 26/05/21	It’s Your Money!: Handling & Protecting Your Financial Future	Virtual
25/05/21 – 27/05/21	Sandbox Summit Global	Virtual
25/05/21 – 27/05/21	Sandbox Summit Global	Virtual
25/05/21 – 30/05/21	Krakow Film Music Festival	Krakow, Poland
25/05/21 – 09/06/21	The Big Summit - DDEX	Virtual
26/05/21 – 27/05/21	Event Production Show	Hampshire, UK
28/05/21 – 30/06/21	New Skool Rules	Virtual
31/05/21 – 03/06/21	Reeperbahn Festival Pan-Africa	Hybrid
31/05/21 – 03/06/21	9th Indian Ocean Music Market	Réunion Island, Indian Ocean
June 2021
01/06/21 – 04/06/21	AES Show Spring 2021	Virtual
02/06/21	Let’s Talk Physical 2021	Virtual
03/06/21	Podcast Summit 2021	Virtual
03/06/21	Future Independents	Virtual
07/06/21 – 09/06/21	AIMP Global Music Publishing Summit 2021	New York, USA
09/06/21 – 11/06/21	MENT Ljubljana	Ljubljana, Slovenia
09/06/21 – 12/06/21	Soundtrack Cologne	Cologne, Germany
09/06/21 – 13/06/21	East Coast Music Awards: Festival & Conference	Nova Scotia, Canada
09/06/21 – 20/06/21	Tribeca Film Festival	New York, USA
10/06/21 – 12/06/21	Trondheim Calling	Trondheim, Norway
10/06/21 – 14/06/21	Australian Songwriters Conference	NSW, Australia
11/06/21	THE AFRICAN MUSIC BUSINESS FORUM	Virtual
12/06/21 – 13/06/21	North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM)	Virtual
14/06/21 – 17/06/21	A2IM Indie Week	Virtual
15/06/21 – 17/06/21	Pollstar Live!	Los Angeles, USA
15/06/21 – 18/06/21	NIME2021	Shanghai, China
16/06/21 – 17/06/21	XpoNorth	Virtual
17/06/21	Dublin Tech Summit	Virtual
17/06/21 – 19/06/21	SPOT + Conference	Århus, Denmark
17/06/21 – 19/06/21	Sónar+D	Barcelona, Spain
21/06/21 – 23/06/21	Athens Music Week	Athens, Greece
25/06/21 – 26/06/21	GearFest	Virtual
28/06/21 – 01/07/21	Midem Africa	Virtual
29/06/21 – 01/07/21	18th Sound and Music Computing Conference	Virtual
July 2021
03/07/21 – 04/07/21	Scottish Electronic Music Conference	Edinburgh, UK
05/07/21 – 07/07/21	Web Audio Conference 2021	Barcelona, Spain
06/07/21 – 17/07/21	Cannes Film Festival	Cannes, France
06/07/21 – 08/07/21	Wallifornia MusicTech	Virtual
08/07/21 – 09/07/21	Un-Convention	Manchester, UK & Virtual
08/07/21 – 10/07/21	Independent Gospel Artist Alliance Conference	Virtual
12/07/21 – 18/07/21	Independent Venue Week USA	Various, USA
15/07/21 – 17/07/21	Summer NAMM	Nashville, USA
19/07/21 – 23/07/21	Game Developers Conference	Virtual
21/07/21 – 25/07/21	The TBL Black TV & Film Conference	Virtual
25/07/21	IMSTA FESTA Seoul	Virtual
31/07/21	HANG	Virtual
August 2021
04/08/21 – 06/08/21	Indie Con Australia	Adelaide, Australia
09/08/21 – 12/08/21	DJ Expo 2021	New Jersey, USA
10/08/21 – 12/08/21	#NEXTGEN_U Student Summit	Virtual
12/08/21 – 13/08/21	Wide Days	Virtual
15/08/21 – 17/08/21	Ticket Summit Trade Show	Las Vegas, USA
17/08/21	Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Summit	Virtual
24/08/21 – 29/08/21	MUTEK Montréal	Montréal, Canada
24/08/21 – 29/08/21	The Music Imbizo	Virtual
25/08/21 – 28/08/21	Cutting Edge CE Conference	New Orleans, USA
25/08/21 – 28/08/21	Pop-Kultur	Berlin, Germany
25/08/21 – 29/08/21	gamescom	Cologne, Germany
26/08/21	Technology & Cyber Security Summit	Virtual
26/08/21 – 28/08/21	CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference	Virtual
29/08/21	IMSTA FESTA Tokyo	Virtual
September 2021
01/09/21 – 02/09/21	Sound City Ipswich	Ipswich, UK
01/09/21 – 04/09/21	Nordic Music Days	Faroe Islands, Denmark
01/09/21 – 03/09/21	audio mostly	Trento, Italy
01/09/21 – 04/09/21	Live at Heart	Örebro, Sweden
02/09/21 – 03/09/21	Croatia Beach Music Conference 2021	Pag, Croatia
03/09/21 – 04/09/21	Electronic Sound Summit	Liverpool, UK
07/09/21 – 09/09/21	Music Ally China Digital Summit	Virtual
07/09/21 – 09/09/21	BIGSOUND	Brisbane, Australia
07/09/21 – 11/09/21	DAFx 2021	Vienna, Austria
08/09/21 – 11/09/21	music pro summit	Virtual
09/09/21 – 12/09/21	Waves Vienna	Vienna, Austria
10/09/21 – 11/09/21	West Coast Songwriters Conference	Virtual
14/09/21 – 15/09/21	RightsTech Summit	Virtual
14/09/21 – 19/09/21	Richmond International Film & Music Festival	Virginia, USA
15/09/21 – 17/09/21	MIL – Lisbon International Music Network	Lisbon, Portugal
16/09/21 – 18/09/21	LAUNCH Music Conference	Pennsylvania, USA
17/09/21 – 19/09/21	Kansai Music Conference	Virtual
17/09/21 – 25/09/21	ISCM World New Music Days 2021	Shanghai & Nanning, China
18/09/21	Ditto X: Meet The Music Industry	London, UK
20/09/21 – 25/09/21	Billboard Latin Music Week	Miami, USA
20/09/21 – 26/09/21	The Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (AFMX)	Albuquerque, New Mexico
22/09/21 – 24/09/21	Brighton Music Conference	Brighton, UK
22/09/21 – 25/09/21	Americana Music Festival & Conference	Nashville, USA
22/09/21 – 25/09/21	Reeperbahn Festival	Hamburg, Germany
22/09/21 – 26/09/21	PopMid	Quarteira, Portugal
22/09/21 – 26/09/21	POP Montreal	Montréal, Canada
27/09/21 – 29/09/21	All About Music	Virtual
27/09/21 – 30/09/21	Classical:NEXT	Rotterdam, The Netherlands
28/09/21 – 30/09/21	International Festival Forum (IFF)	London, UK
28/09/21 – 02/10/21	World of Bluegrass 2021	North Carolina, USA
29/09/21 – 02/10/21	Music Tourism Convention	Mississippi, USA
29/09/21 – 03/10/21	Tallinn Music Week	Tallinn, Estonia
29/09/21	IMSTA FESTA Germany	Virtual
30/09/21	Music Finance Forum	Virtual
30/09/21 – 02/10/21	MU:CON ONLINE 2021	Virtual
30/09/21 – 02/10/21	By:Larm	Oslo, Norway
30/09/21 – 02/10/21	DURANGO SONGWRITERS EXPO – BOULDER/BROOMFIELD	Colorado, USA
30/09/21 – 06/10/21	Nashville Film Festival	Nashville, USA
October 2021
01/10/21	Sound City Ipswich	Ipswich, UK
01/10/21 – 03/10/21	Sound City 2021	Liverpool, UK
01/10/21 – 09/10/21	Sensoria	Sheffield, UK
05/10/21	Venues Day 2021	London, UK
05/10/21 – 07/10/21	The Metadata Summit	Virtual
05/10/21 – 07/10/21	Production Music Conference (PMC) 2021	Los Angeles, USA & virtual
05/10/21 – 08/10/21	Ireland Music Week	Virtual
07/10/21	Head First	Sydney, Australia
07/10/21 – 09/10/21	FOCUS Wales 2020	Wrexham, Wales
09/10/21 – 11/10/21	Radiodays Europe	Lisbon, Portugal & virtual
09/10/21 – 13/10/21	NAB Show	Las Vegas, USA
11/10/21 – 13/10/21	AES Show Fall 2021/span>	Las Vegas, USA
11/10/21 – 14/10/21	MIPCOM	Cannes, France
11/10/21 – 31/10/21	International Music Expo (IMX) 2021	Virtual
12/10/21 – 15/10/21	MONDO NYC	Virtual & New York, USA
13/10/21 – 14/10/21	Radio Show	Las Vegas, USA
13/10/21 – 15/10/21	MaMA Festival & Convention	Paris, France
13/10/21 – 16/10/21	Music China	Shanghai, China
13/10/21 – 17/10/21	Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
13/10/21 – 17/10/21	BreakOut West	Manitoba, Canada
17/10/21	Climate Music Blowout	London, UK
22/10/21 – 24/10/21	Musikmesse	Frankfurt, Germany
23/10/21	The World Soundtrack Awards	Gent, Belgium
25/10/21 – 27/10/21	Music Tectonics Conference	Online and in the Metaverse
26/10/21 – 28/10/21	Develop Conference	Brighton, UK
27/10/21 – 30/10/21	BIME PRO	Bilbao, Spain
27/10/21 – 31/10/21	WOMEX	Porto, Portugal
31/10/21	IMSTA FESTA Online	Virtual
November 2021
01/11/21 – 04/11/21	Web Summit	Lisbon, Portugal
02/11/21	Music Tectonics Conference	Los Angeles, USA
03/11/21 – 06/11/21	Iceland Airwaves	Reykjavík, Iceland
08/11/21 – 12/11/21	ISMIR 2021	Virtual
10/11/21 – 12/11/21	Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC)	Queensland, Australia
12/11/21 – 14/11/21	Coast 2 Coast Music Conference 2020	Miami Beach, USA
16/11/21 – 19/11/21	Midem Digital Edition	Virtual
16/11/21 – 20/11/21	Tin Pan South Songwriter Festival	Nashville, USA
17/11/21 – 20/11/21	Visa For Music	Morocco, North Africa
18/11/21 – 20/11/21	Electric City Music Conference	Pennsylvania, USA
23/11/21 – 25/11/21	Linecheck Music Meeting and Festival	Milan, Italy
24/11/21 – 28/11/21	MUTEX México	Mexico City, Mexico
25/11/21 – 27/11/21	ACCES	Tanzania, East Africa
28/11/21	IMSTA FESTA Rio	Virtual
December 2021
01/12/21 – 03/12/21	DISCOP Kigali	Rwanda, East Africa
03/12/21 – 12/12/21	Melbourne Music Week	Melbourne, Australia
10/12/21 – 12/12/21	Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo	Chicago, USA

Emma Griffiths

Emma Griffiths is the editor of Synchblog, a blog created by Synchtank to provide insight into the music and media industries. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for the latest Synchblog posts & key industry news in your inbox each week.

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