
Cheryl Paglierani Jumps To CAA
Veteran music agent and former partner of UTA Cheryl Paglierani, has joined CAA, the agency announced June 24. She’s worked with and developed artists including Post Malone, 21 Savage, Flo Milli, Jessie Murph and Dominic Fike, and she was named…

Goose Announce More Fall Dates, Including Annual Goosemas Shows
Jam rockers Goose announced additional headline dates in the U.S. this fall and also unveiled dates for their 11th annual Goosemas shows. The first of the newly added concerts from the rock quintet based out of Connecticut is a three-night…

AEG Presents Inks Strategic Partnership With Tim Hinshaw’s Free Lunch
AEG Presents has entered a strategic partnership with Tim Hinshaw and his creative studio Free Lunch following Kendrick Lamar’s “The Pop Out – Ken & Friends” Juneteenth concert at the Kia Forum, presented by pgLang and Free Lunch. The event…

Pollstar 2024 Mid-Year Charts (Subscribers Only)
For the first time in two-and-a-half years, the live industry has returned to earth. The stratospheric post-pandemic concert exuberance that swept markets across the globe starting in the U.S. in the later half of 2021 and saw the concert business…

Weezer To Wrap Blue Album Anniversary Tour At Acrisure Arena
Weezer is going to turn the desert blue. The pop-punk pioneers have added a finale to their tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their iconic 1994 self-title debut commonly called ‘The Blue Album,” though officially it is Weezer. The last…

La Revolución Continues: Latin Artists Lead Mid-Year Chart
The wildfire growth of Latin music and the markets where the genres come from is remarkable if difficult to fathom. Even a veteran promoter like Phil Rodriguez, CEO of Move Concerts, cannot quite wrap his head around it. “I mean,…

Madonna’s ‘Celebration Tour’ Tops 2024 Mid-Year Worldwide Tours
One would be hard pressed to write a better, more dramatic narrative than that of Madonna’s “Celebration Tour,” which topped Pollstar’s 2024 Mid-Year Worldwide chart, The trek was initially postponed just weeks out from its original July start date after…

Pollstar 2024 Mid-Year Report: Record-Setting $3B+ Gross As Market Cools; Madonna Has No. 1 Tour
By Bob Allen and Andy Gensler For the first time in two-and-a-half years, the live industry has returned to earth. The stratospheric post-pandemic concert exuberance that swept markets across the globe starting in the U.S. in the later half of…

The Mid-Year 2024 Cool Down: Where The Live Business Is
Perhaps the best description for 2024’s mid-year state of the industry is that it’s mostly pretty friggin’ great, but not for everyone. For every canceled tour (sorry J.Lo, Black Keys, Busta Rhymes) there’s at least one — if not ten…

Mid-Year 2024: Business Is Truly Global
It was Lucy Dickins who said, “the importance of international has become something of an industry mantra. There is certainly more globalization in the live music sector than ever before, and artists are taking advantage of it. Wherever they want…

Mid-Year 2024: Volatile Festival Market Demonstrates Need For Caution But Also Opportunity
Major music festivals can be considered a barometer for the live music industry as a whole – and for good reason. High-profile, large-scale events can gauge overall demand for live music and available talent, and act as an indicator of…

KKR To Acquire European Festival Giant Superstruct From Providence
Investment giant KKR announced the acquisition of Superstruct Entertainment, owner of some of Europe’s biggest festivals, from Providence Equity Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. See: Superstruct Entertainment Reportedly Up For Sale Superstruct owns and operates over…
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