Despite the recession, 2009 proved a solid year for arenas across the continent, and given the economic state of play, some surprising figures emerged...

Last year’s arena report recorded an 8% drop in attendance at music shows in 2008. It was the first time in a decade that numbers had fallen significantly...

It’s not every day that you’re named ‘International Agent of the Decade’, but it’s not every day that an agent like John Giddings carves a path through the business. Greg Parmley goes Solo...

When Billboard magazine named the Rolling Stones, U2 and Madonna as the three highest grossing touring artists of the last decade...

Our hand-picked group of industry leaders gaze into their crystal balls to predict just how the concert business will fare in this new decade...

The idea was simple: To take a cross section of senior figures within the music industry – one for each of a variety of industry sectors – and pitch some similarly future-minded questions at them.

While one of its number is still reeling from the economic storm, the majority of the Nordic live music markets are weathering the chills as though they’re used to it. Adam Woods reports...

The Nordic region is one where you expect them to do things right. In The Economist’s global Quality of Life Index, last calculated five years ago, only...

Stoking its engines and pulling up anchor, the ILMC is taking a round-the-world cruise in March 2010.

Anyone that went to ILMC 2009 would have experienced the mayhem first hand as delegates the world over converged on London for three days of anarchy and destruction. But next year we’re taking an entirely different tack as the ILMC crew prepares a fabulous luxury weekend cruise...

As sure as leaves falling in autumn, or Oasis having another bust up, Allan McGowan rounds up the year that nearly was…

Well here we are – most of us anyway – almost at the end of the year, and there’s certainly still some glitter about but with the industry’s leading companies failing to deliver profits and continuing to engage in ‘low margin business’, have we been dealing in fools gold? We’ll see…

Alecia Beth Moore – stage name Pink – is the latest to join the stadium elite, and her Funhouse arena smash has helped put her there. Greg Parmley reports…

In a period of the music business when executives are decrying the dearth of new stadium artists, and the public increasingly settles for chart acts that mime, Pink is something of a contradiction. Her fifth and most recent album, Funhouse, has seen the latest growth spurt in a career that’s followed a consistently upward trajectory since she went solo in 2000.

Funhouse may have taken Pink to a new level in Europe and the US, but the Australian tour propelled her to a whole different league. Lars Brandle reports...

The term ‘superstar’ doesn’t quite do justice to Pink’s status in Australia. Down under, her album sales are a class apart, and no one comes close to touching her in box office terms. Her 58-date Funhouse Tour has been destroying records up and down the country this year, selling 658,000 tickets and generating a total gross of A$80million (€49m) in just three months on the road.

Pyros, lasers, confetti, inflatables…there’s a multitude of ways to shock, wow and impress your audience, and technology is making it more impressive and affordable than ever, as Adam Woods reports…

News that The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas described the concept for his debut solo UK tour as a “Pink Floyd laser light show” will have delighted fans of good old-fashioned stage effects...

France’s live music market is one of the most sophisticated in Europe but while facing the economic crisis, there are fears that rising artist fees and a dearth of tour support is undermining the business. Emmanuel Legrand reports...

Back in the 70s, Elton John allegedly said it wasn’t worth touring France because the industry couldn’t organise a concert in a toilet...