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.
Members can see the following reports when logged in:
2022 Music Exchange Statistics
2022 Audience Calculator Classical Radio
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.
Latest news
3 questions to conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Pioneer of the early music revival and a strong advocate for historically informed musical practice,...
3 questions to Robert Meijerink, programmer of the Eurosonic Festival (ESNS)
From 18 to 21 January 2023, the Eurosonic Festival (ESNS) will feature 30 EBU acts from 24 European countries,...
3 questions to conductor Franz Welser-Möst
The Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert is the most widely broadcast classical music event — on both...
Special Programmes and Offers
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.
Euroradio Folk Music Spring and Easter Project
Each year, the Folk and Traditional Music Group invites EBU radio organizations to submit one or two folk songs, traditional or newly composed, vocal or instrumental, either on an Easter liturgical theme or more generally devoted to springtime.
EBU radio organizations’ music initiatives to support Ukraine
In response to the crisis in Ukraine, the EBU music community is organizing special activities to support Ukraine, sharing them with all the radio organizations.
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.
Upcoming Sessions
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Groups and Meetings
We have expert groups, communities and specialized meetings on subjects ranging across the musical genres. Find the right one for you:
Upcoming meetings
26 - 27 May 2023
Comfort Hotel LT – Rock´n´Roll Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
Contacts
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Classical Music
Media
pacareu@ebu.ch
