Empire Music Label's Tina Davis Shares Her Thoughts On Disruptive Trends and Artist Power In 2025

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EMPIRE president Tina Davis joined Forbes senior writer Jabari Young at the Nasdaq MarketSite to discuss her 30-year career in music, including discovering Montell Jordan and managing Chris Brown.  Watch the full story on Forbes: https://youtu.be/I7I4B1w1vjA  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00As we sit, right, in the music industry, this is your industry, in 2025, right, if you had to

00:04describe in one word what the industry is in 2025, it's midway point of this decade,

00:10because Empire sits in a very interesting place, you know, again, independent distributor and record

00:14label, what word would that be to describe the music industry? I would probably say

00:20disruptive. Disruptive, why disruptive? Because I feel Empire, we are disruptive, we've disrupted

00:28the industry a little bit to where, you know, the deals are different, they're leaning toward the

00:33artist and being artist friendly. I would say because there are so many different genres that

00:39are fusing into genres that usually like to be very pure, like a shibuzi in country, same thing when

00:45it came to when Nas X did it or, you know, others. But I feel like there's a time now where there are

00:53no lines, whether it's EDM and dance, whether it's rock music or country music or even hip-hop for that

01:00matter, there are really no set purist lines at this point.

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