What They Learned in Brazil

This past summer, we were selected among 13 Syracuse University students in the Bandier Music Business Program to study the music business hands-on by visiting five cities across three countries in Latin America. Bandier visits different emerging music markets almost every spring, with previous trips touching down in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea and Indonesia, among others. This year, for the first time ever, Latin America was our destination, and we visited Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, where we met with over 75 executives across virtually every sector of the music business. We gratefully learned from top executives at Spotify, YouTube, Sony,…