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Beyonce in Peru
The latest artist to hit Peru was Beyonce. She just performed at Lima’s Estadio Monumental. Ticket costs were 175 soles (US$61) which is nearly 1/5th an average monthly wage for people in their 20′s. Beyonce is yet another artist who has recently performed in Peru. Peru has an active music loving population who have turned [...]
Beyonce, Rated G
Beyonce will be performing a concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25th this year. This is noteworthy because just two years ago, she didn’t play a concert because of dress code requirements which went a little something like this: Female performers are required to cover up in the country, which has various rules for [...]
Japanese Summer Sonic Music Festival
Creative Man Productions out of Japan has just announced some of the bands that will take part in this year’s Summer Sonic Music Festival. The festival takes place over 3 days in 2 different cities – Tokyo and Osaka. Bands perform in one city one day and the other city the next day. The int’l [...]
Madonna Update
I have been following the Madonna Sticky & Sweet tour through recent blogs (see blogs 1, 2, & 3) for the implications in international music tours. One key figure that was discussed at the beginning of her tour was the need to gross $4 million per show. Well, of her 28 North American dates so [...]
Academy Live
While Live Nation is sweeping the USA with live concerts, they have also made serious inroads overseas. Their partner in the United Kingdom, Academy Music Group, has 11 facilities throughout the country. Live Nation is a majority stakeholder in Academy. And now there is a third company in the mix of partners, O2, the leading [...]
McCartney in Tel Aviv
Paul McCartney, 66, gave a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel for the first time in his career this past Thursday. He drew a crowd of 40,000 fans and the concert was held in honor of the 60th anniversary of Israel. What is funny about all of this is that the Beatles had been banned from [...]
Madonna in Latin America
On September 12th, I wrote about Madonna’s concert tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At that time, it was a pretty big news story that Madonna had sold out two shows in Buenos Aires in a matter of hours. Well, now it gets even better. Madonna has now added a 3rd and 4th show in the [...]
Bon Jovi in Mumbai
On December 7th, Bon Jovi will be rockin’ live in Mumbai with several Bollywood artists at the Live Earth event. The concert will take place at the 20,000 seat Andheri Sports Complex and will be broadcast on Star India’s music outlet, Channel V in India. It will simultaneously be broadcast in the U.K. and the [...]
South Africa V Festival
The Virgin Group, Richard Branson’s brainchild, has just announced a new music festival for South Africa. The festival will be titled the V festival and will feature local bands as well as Snoop Dogg, Maroon 5, and OneRepublic. The Cape Town, South Africa promoter for this event is Big Concerts and they expect over 60,000 [...]
Madonna & Argentina
Back in June, I blogged about Madonna skipping a potential tour date in Lima, Peru due to the economics of the deal. I noted that Madonna usually requires a $4 million price tag for each concert that she does, regardless of location. The largest stadium in Peru seats 45,574 people which would have required an [...]
