$4.3B
Music Industry Contribution to State GDP
Economists Inc 201864,438
Jobs Supported
Economists Inc 20187,520
Music Establishments
Economists Inc 2018A2IM/NIVA6,777
Royalty Recipients
SoundExchange/SAG-AFTRA52,991
Songwriters
ASCAP/BMI/SESAC/GMREveryone knows about the Chicago blues, be it through luminaries like Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters,
or legendary venues like Kingston Mines and The House of Blues. But Illinois's contributions to music go much further. Jazz icon Miles Davis was from Illinois, as are folk greats John Prine and Alison Krauss. Sam Cooke of Sam & Dave was raised in Chicago, along with Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Mavis Staples. Illinois has a vibrant and diverse musical heritage, which continues to this day, as it hosts a premier multi-day rock festival, Lollapalooza, and the Chicago House Music Festival, celebrating a genre of electronic music that it popularized in the early 1980s. As Frank Sinatra famously sang, "On State Street that great street I just want to say, They do things that they don't do on Broadway."
Some
Notable
Musicians
- Billy Corgan
- Brett Eldredge
- Chance the Rapper
- Cheap Trick
- Chicago
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Fall Out Boy
- Herbie Hancock
- Kanye West
- Lupe Fiasco
- Mavis Staples
- Miles Davis
- Minnie Riperton
- R.E.O Speedwagon
- Sam Cooke
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Styx
- Survivor