NARM And Digitalmusic.Org Become 'The Music Business Association'

New Name

Starting TODAY (10/8), NARM (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RECORDING MERCHANDISERS) and its digital industry hub DIGITALMUSIC.ORG will collectively be known as THE MUSIC BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (MUSICBIZ.ORG), "to fully encompass everyone involved in music commerce in the U.S." Six sectors have been established to drive specific areas of interest, and six new director positions have been added to the Board of the trade organization to represent this broader membership. The organization will continue to be headed by President JIM DONIO, and the current team will remain headquartered in MARLTON, NJ.

"The music industry has changed dramatically over the past decade, and NARM has been evolving along with those changes, bringing in more voices from the online and mobile industries with the creation of DIGITALMUSIC.ORG, as well as from other areas that were not traditionally associated with music retail," said DONIO. "More segments of the business than ever before now play an active role in the commerce side of the business, so the name ‘NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RECORDING MERCHANDISERS’ no longer reflected everyone who can participate in the organization. ‘The Music Business Association’ makes it crystal clear -- and for the first time in the organization’s history, the ‘M’ stands for music."

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