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Live Nation Income
Live Nation is continuing to show where the money is in the music industry. Live Nation just released 1st quarter earnings for 2009. Some of the highlights are: – per-head revenue up 10.5%- on-site, non-ticket revenue up 27%- money collected for future concerts – $696 million- north american operating margin up to 8.2% from 7.1% [...]
Live Nation – MySpace Partnership
Live Nation and MySpace are teaming up for a Spanish fiesta. Live Nation, the concert promoter, is doing a little outsourcing of its marketing of live shows. MySpace, which boasts a Spanish user-base of 2.7 million people, will market the shows to users and provide advance ticketing options. A lucky few will even win backstage [...]
Live Nation Ticketmaster?
Just last year, Live Nation and Ticketmaster split after their contract expired. Now, a rumor has it that they will rejoin and go by Live Nation Ticketmaster. This would combine the largest concert promoter with the largest ticketing agency. Not a bad combination. As Live Nation’s partnership with Ticketmaster ended last year, they ended up [...]
Live Nation-al Debt
When Live Nation signed multi-million dollar deals with U2 & Madonna, they also included equity shares of the company into the deal. The idea being that U2 & Madonna would help build the company and should be able to receive some of the monetary compensation of Live Nation’s growth. Well, the economy didn’t really turn [...]
Live Nation Equity
We have all been surprised by the recent deals signed between artists and Live Nation. Live Nation would sign these artists for multi-year deals and then take a chunk of revenue from a number of different aspects of the artists’ career. So, for instance, Jay-Z signed a huge deal, but will also provide revenues from [...]
Show me the Money
At a time when the economy is tanking, most radio stocks are under $1, and record companies’ revenues are declining rapidly, it is quite newsworthy when some company related to the music industry shows strong financial gains. Enter – Live Nation. So far, it appears that Live Nation has hit upon a business plan that [...]
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 [...]
Ticketmaster Entertainment
Ticketmaster is not sitting idly by as their relationship as Live Nation’s ticket seller ends this year. Ticketmaster has just purchased a 30% stake in Front Line Management Group. The 30% stake was purchased from Warner Music Group and came at a price tag of $123 Million. The new entity will be called Ticketmaster Entertainment [...]
Jay-Z & the Norwegians
Jay-Z is joining forces with Stargate, the Norwegian songwriting/production duo that is behind some of the current top 40 hits. Stargate has worked on Ne-Yo’s “Closer” and Rihanna’s “Take a Bow.” This new global partnership will be called StarRoc (Stargate & Rocafella) and will include a record label and publishing company under Jay-Z’s venture with [...]
Live Nation Ticketing
The concert ticketing game is about to undergo some big changes. Recently, Ticketmaster has been the ticketing agent for all Live Nation venues & concerts. But this alliance is coming to an end and Live Nation will bring this in house. In addition to being a wise financial decision, it also has perhaps an even [...]
