Music Exchange
The world's largest offer of live music
About
We know music is central to your radio programming so you have easy access to first-class music and events through our Music Exchange.
With around 3,000 concerts by both leading and emerging artists shared every year, this is the world’s largest offer of live music. Covering all genres from classical and opera to folk, jazz, world, rock, pop and dance, we provide access to prestigious concerts and performances from venues across the globe to enrich the diversity and quality of your music offer.
Members request around 20,000 programmes from the Music Exchange every year, making it a cost-effective way of sharing the world’s best music with your audiences. Performances range from the BBC Proms and the New York Metropolitan Opera to Coldplay and Radiohead. We also organize several major music events and festivals every year, in conjunction with our Members, including Eurosonic and the Euroradio Folk Festival.
Partners
The Euroradio Music Exchange is a proud partner of Keychange, an international gender equality campaign which invests in emerging talent whilst encouraging music organisations to sign up to a gender balance pledge.
Reports
Members can log in to see the reports :
Music Radio Social Media (29 November 2024)
2024 Audience Calculator Classical Radio
2024 Audience Calculator Pop Rock Radio
Special Programmes and Offers
Euroradio Christmas Music Day
Every year, the Euroradio Christmas Music Day is eagerly awaited by listeners throughout Europe and beyond. On the Sunday before Christmas, EBU radio organizations contribute live or deferred concerts of music focused on the theme of Christmas. It has been one of the EBU’s most popular offerings ever since it first aired in 1995.
Eurosonic Festival
The Eurosonic Festival is the European showcase for up-and-coming bands and artists, and Euroradio is at the heart of this annual three-day event, which takes place every January in Groningen (Netherlands).
Sound Engineers Scheme
Radio is all about sound: our goal is to achieve flawless audio in the 2,800-plus concerts exchanged each year over the Music Exchange.
Music Exchange Events
Digital strategy for Classical channels (BBC)
A session looking at how to build effective strategies to support classical radio networks and their audience objectives through digital platforms and content.
Digital strategy for Classical channels (BR)
Just as a great jazz standard requires ongoing reinterpretation, our digital strategy at BR-KLASSIK must also evolve continuously. We’ll share our experiences in shifting our focus from listeners to streamers, aligning our offerings with ARD’s central distribution platforms, and refining workflows to enhance decision-making processes.
2024 Classical Music Plenary Winter Session
If you’re working on a project with high learning value, please reach out — we’d love to hear from you!
Music and Radio 60-Minute Sessions
Watch our series of online sessions aimed at the EBU Music community. We discuss radio and music challenges related to live-recorded music and radio production.
Watch again
In conversation with Rufus Wainwright
Celebrated for his boundless creativity through diverse genres, Rufus Wainwright unveils his Dream Requiem on...
Unveiling the EBU Opera Programming Survey results
Contemporary opera has consistently held an important place in opera programming for radio, guided by...
Music Programming on Radio Based on Moods
For a very long time (well, forever, really…) radio genres/profiles have dictated the music content of...
Women in Music - Celebrating Diversity
In this session, our speakers reflect on diversity in music, and look at how radio can help the shift...
Sustainability and EBU media orchestras
At the initiative of the management and musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, EBU...
Gen Z and Classical Music
A British study published in 2022 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, showed that 74% of the population...
Contacts
Laurent Marceau
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Popular Music, EBU
Mireia Pacareu Fauquier
Editor, Live Music and Projects, Classical Music, EBUpacareu@ebu.ch