SFX Entertainment prices IPO at $13 a share; company valued at $1.05 billion
Electronic Dance Music enters a new beginning as SFX Entertainment tests the waters of Wall Street. If you recall, SFX was founded last year by media mogul Robert Sillermain who claimed to spend 1 billion dollars to acquire dance industry assets, yesterday their IPO was priced at $13 a share.
Madeon makes history as the first DJ to ever perform on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange was transformed last night by the unlikeliest of sponsors, a 19-year old French prodigy known to most as the launchpad-wielding Madeon. For just over an hour, the heart of the world economy puled, not with stock tickers and screaming traders, but with a barrage of pad-triggered clips, arranged to create a symphony of electro-pop that would shake the foundation of Wall Street's trading floor.