2024 Live Music Business Is Thriving, but New Data Raises Concerns
After a miraculous 2023 (studied exhaustively in the VIP+ special report “Peak Performance”) propelled by the likes of Taylor Swift…
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Alan Cross is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music…
The Domination Tour – The American Prospect
This article appears in the August 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Five years ago, Britney Spears…
Michael Rapino is the world’s live entertainment overlord
Michael Rapino, photographed at the Live Nation offices in Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 2018. (Live Nation) If you’ve ever…
Live Nation Sees Short Lived Stock Price Fall
Phones: Page to purchase tickets from Ticketmaster for a Niall Horan concert. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit…
The Music Mafia’s Invincible ‘Poison Dwarf,’ in the Crosshairs at Last?
Sixteen months ago, music mogul Irving Azoff sat on a stage in The Beverly Hilton with three of his closest…
Would breaking up Live Nation lower ticket prices?
The U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster has been a long time coming, following…
Justice Department sues Live Nation, Ticketmaster, alleging monopoly over live entertainment industry
The Justice Department sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation on Thursday, accusing the ticketing companies of blocking competition…
Maryland joins lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation
Maryland joined the Justice Department, 28 other states and the District of Columbia on Thursday in an antitrust lawsuit against…