Blockbuster To Sell Live Nation Tickets
For months now we’ve been telling you how Live Nation is changing the way you’ll see concerts in the near future. Now, they’ve struck a deal to sell tickets through select Blockbustert retail locations nationwide in a report from The New York Post. The deal comes as Live Nation prepares to end its relationship with Ticketmaster in favor of launching its own ticketing business next year. Read more
TicketMaster Trying To Catch Up To Live Nation
Ticketmaster in an effort to catch up to Live Nation’s new entertainment business model has announced an agreement to acquire a controlling equity interest in Front Line Management Group. MARKETWATCH.COM is also reporting that upon completion of the transaction, Ticketmaster will change its name to Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. to reflect its continued emergence as a newly diversified live entertainment and marketing company. Read more
Live Nation Shares The New Music Business Model
In an interview with Forbes Magazine Live Nation opened up their business model for all of us to see just how they’re changing the concert side of the music business. We’ve been following Live Nation for months, but here are a few things we didn’t even know. Read more
Live Nation Continues To Change The Music Business
We’ve been keeping you up to date on Live Nation and how they’re changing the landscape of the music business. Once again they’re stepping out and partnering with SMG venue management company. These two companies have formed a strategic alliance that will help them strengthen ticketing and entertainment content at SMG venues across the country. Read more
Happy 50th Birthday Madonna
In case you missed it Saturday was Madonna’s 50th birthday…that’s right the big 5-0. It’s still hard for me to comprehend that at 50 she signed a 10 year 100 million dollar deal with Live Nation. Read more
Live Nation May Be Asking Labels For Help
We’ve been covering the new musical road that Live Nation is trying to pave over the last few months. Now, that they’ve got Madonna, Jay-Z, NIckleback and others signed to exclusive 360 deals the New York Times is reporting that they may need help from the record community after all. Read more
Tours Still Sell, Despite Economy
Despite inflation, rising gasoline prices and the continuing slide of record sales, concert tours from January to June grossed $1.05 billion in North America, the same as the midyear gross in 2007, according to a report from The New York Times. I was surprised that Bon Jovi topped the list with a gross of $56.3 million, but hey when you have Daughtry as your opening act it really isn’t that surprising. He was followed by Bruce Springsteen, with $40.8 million, and Van Halen, with $36.8 million. The top Christian tours were Casting Crowns at #54 with $6.3 million and Winter Jam tip toed in at #98 with $3.1 million.
Because tickets for the most popular tours are often bought months in advance, sales for recent shows may not reflect the jump in fuel prices over the last couple of months. The true test, according to concert promoters, booking agents and others, will be over the next few months, as consumers decide whether to buy tickets for the fall. Read more
Nickleback joins Live Nation….is Chad Kroger a Christian?
On the heels of the news of Madonna and Jay-Z it looks like Nickleback will be joining the ranks of artists moving to Live Nation. Chad Kroger and the boys are fourth act that Live Nation has signed to a unified rights deal, on track with the company’s strategic plan to sign four to six such deals with world-class artists in the first year of operation. Chad went on to say… Read more
Is Live Nation Still Happy With Madonna Deal?
We’ve been blogging about Live Nation’s new artist contracts for the last few months. We thought it was time to find out if all of their major artists (Madonna, Jay-Z & U2) that they signed to 360 deals earlier this year are starting to pay dividends.
Last week The New York Post was asking the same question and according to their research Madonna’s upcoming “Sticky & Sweet” tour has been overshadowed in music industry circles by the large number of tickets still available for a key stop in L.A. in November and the soft sales of her latest project “Hard Candy.” Which. I didn’t even know was out yet. Read more
