Fifty years have passed since the Woodstock Festival, and many things have changed radically in the music market. However, that event left an important legacy, that is still valid today from multiple standpoints.#First of all, it marked the advent of a dual structure of the music business, with a few large companies (“majors”) that manage the most successful music, and many independent labels that mostly deal with emerging artists and niche genres.#Secondly, it gave rise to an era of experiential use of music, marking the importance of the live dimension of the musical offering and the performance of concerts for an artist’s success. The importance of experiential use actually increased after the technological changes, given the reduction of the contribution of recorded music consumption to sales in the sector.#Thirdly, it represented the most evident and primordial episode of socio-cultural tension provoked by the advent of rock music. That form of cultural tension was then repeated numerous times and in various forms in the course of evolution of the music business, with the advent of punk, grunge, and hip-hop.