A Record Year for Sales and Chaos in the Concert Industry
Concerts are back, but they’re facing shortages in most everything and confronting climate change
Hi all and welcome back. As I mentioned last week, I’m currently sweltering in Dallas for Podcast Movement where it feels like all everyone can talk about is the plague-level amount of crickets (concerning) and their Ben Shapiro, from The Daily Wire, sightings/selfies, which I’ll say more on later. Real drama. I’m wandering around — please do say hi — and if you have hot tips to share, my attention is available to you! My email is acarman5@bloomberg.net, and if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here
Now, on to the news.
Today I published a story describing the pandemonium that has become the live events business this summer. It’s been a wild couple of years in general, as we know, and all the macro storylines we here at Bloomberg have been following, like inflation, the great resignation and Covid-19, have also played out on a micro scale in the touring world. You can read the whole story here.