Pollstar 2025 Year End Business Analysis, A Return To Earth
This is the live music industry's own year-end analysis, cited for a pattern rather than a headline. For 2025 it reported that total grosses and ticket sales fell while average prices rose, with stadium tickets up by around a fifth to an average above two hundred dollars and average gross per stadium show rising by a similar proportion. The combination is the point: fewer tickets sold at higher prices produced a picture that can be described as growth or decline depending on which figure is quoted. It is trade analysis rather than independent research, and this vault cites it alongside the companies' own results so the two can be compared.
This is the live music industry's own year-end analysis, cited for a pattern rather than a headline. For 2025 it reported that total grosses and ticket sales fell while average prices rose, with stadium tickets up by around a fifth to an average above two hundred dollars and average gross per stadium show rising by a similar proportion. The combination is the point: fewer tickets sold at higher prices produced a picture that can be described as growth or decline depending on which figure is quoted. It is trade analysis rather than independent research, and this vault cites it alongside the companies' own results so the two can be compared.
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Pollstar (2025). Year-end business analysis: grosses and ticket sales fell while averages rose; stadium tickets up 18.3 per cent to an average of $216.13; average stadium gross $7.11 million a show, up 19 per cent on 2024; top-tour average ticket $132.62, the second-highest on record. Trade analysis, not research.
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