The UK live music market experienced a double-digit growth in 2023 in spite of significant functional troubles for lots of celebrations and grassroots places, per a brand-new report. Image Credit: Nainoa Shizuru
Earnings from performances and music celebrations grew by double digits in the UK in 2015, when the domestic live home entertainment sector however come to grips with “skyrocketing expenses in several locations,” according to a brand-new report.
That report was simply recently released by LIVE (Live Music Industry Venues & & Entertainment), which produced the analysis in partnership with NielsenIQ’s CGA. As an entire, the UK live music market is stated to have actually attained a 17% year-over-year dive in “overall market price,” which was available in at $8.04 billion/ ₤ 6.1 billion (topping ₤ 6 billion for the very first time) and aspects for “amount in income and work terms.”
Shows comprised the lion’s share of the overall ($5.91 billion/ ₤ 4.5 billion) and, versus the background of well-documented functional obstacles for celebrations in specific, grew their income by 19% YoY (compared to 12% YoY development for celebrations at $2.10 billion/ ₤ 1.6 billion), the resource reveals.
“Some of this boost was created by greater ticket rates, which have actually been inescapable because of the skyrocketing expenses of labour, energy and other essential inputs for occasion organisers,” LIVE acknowledged. “However, it is well above the rate of inflation throughout 2023, and shows a strong program of live occasions and a consistent enhancement in customers’ costs self-confidence as the year went on.”
A breakdown of income attributable to UK performances and celebrations in between 2019 and 2023. Image Credit: LIVE
By city, Central London represented 28% of the determined 2023 UK live music market income, followed by Manchester (7.4%), Glasgow (5.5%), Birmingham (3.6%), and Edinburgh (2.2%) to complete the leading 5, according to the report.
In addition, in regards to the difficult numbers behind the UK’s live area in 2023, pop, rock, and indie acts are stated to have actually commanded over 56% of the sector’s income.
On the work front, the simply shy of 230,000 staff members (49,357 irreversible, the other 180,000 or so “casual”) working in live last year marked a modest boost from 2022 however a 9.4% increase from pre-pandemic 2019, the report notes.
Moving to the not-so-positive elements of the UK live music market in 2023, LIVE CEO Jon Collins likewise acknowledged that the year had actually seen “36 celebrations cancelled and 125 grassroots locations closed.”
The uncomfortable pattern has actually relatively continued into 2024, with reports last month pointing to the cancellation of 60 UK celebrations on the year.
Regardless of these well-defined functional troubles and those dealt with by grassroots music places, nevertheless, diehard fans are continuing to spend eye-watering amounts to see specific commercially popular acts carry out live.
When it comes to which trips are striking business turning points and which are being nixed, the choices of undiscerning fans appear to be playing a higher function than ever.