India International Music Week (IIMW) 2025 commenced with a powerful opening, bringing together music professionals, export offices, and artistes from more than 30 countries to Goa, India, positioning the country at the center of the global music industry.
IIMW focused on its objective to establish India as a global music hub by fostering international collaborations, cultural exchanges, and economic growth through music. This vision reinforced Goa’s position as a destination that not only hosts world-class music events but actively invests in simplified licensing, infrastructure development, and sustainable tourism policies to support the creative industries.
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“The IIMW music showcase festival is a format that exists around the world. A showcase festival typically brings in key music industry stakeholders such as record labels, festival programmers, venue owners in a common space to witness and assess an artiste that they would like to work and professionally engage with. It is a highly curated match-making process. One of the success parameters for us is for artistes performing at IIMW to find a partner in their growth and journey. Our success is in their success,” said Rafael Pereira an executive trustee, India Music Exchange – IMX.
IIMW 2025 stands as a true global showcase of talent, with an artiste lineup that was equally Indian and international. The festival’s curation ensures a diverse musical experience, featuring emerging artists from India and around the world. Some of the Goan artistes included Roz Angon, Tsumyoki and Tracy De Sa while Sonia Shirsat and many other Goa-based artistes were part of different panel discussions that were held over two days.
“The Indian music industry has seen major growth patterns and shifts over the last decade and even more so over the last 5 years. The spike in the growth of the Indian music industry over the last 5 years has been the key inspiration that drives ‘India International Music Week (IIMW)’. IIMW aims to establish India as a trade hub for the global music industry and the need for a global music industry gathering in India has never been better timed than now,” said Sushil Chhugani, an executive trustee, India Music Exchange – IMX.
India International Music Week 2025 continued to drive conversations on international partnerships and India’s role in shaping the future of the global music industry.
