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Live Nation Announces $20 Hourly Minimum Wage for Club Employees After Deeming Q3 Its ‘Biggest Quarter Ever’

November 28, 2023

Fans attend a show at Live Nation's Echoplex in LA. Photo Credit: Julian Lozano Live Nation has revealed a new minimum wage of $20 per hour for employees at its clubs in the U.S. and Canada, besides compensat... Read More...

U.S. Senate Issues Subpoena Against Live Nation and Ticketmaster for Allegedly ‘Stonewalling’ Investigation

Dylan Smith

November 22, 2023

The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol. Photo Credit: Scrumshus Happy Thanksgiving, Live Nation: Weeks after reporting its “biggest quarter ever,” the Ticketmaster parent has been slapped with a subpoena from th... Read More...

Live Nation Inks K-Pop Touring Deal with JYP Entertainment

Ashley King

November 14, 2023

Photo Credit: Live Nation JYP Entertainment has signed a multi-year global partnership with Live Nation to produce tours for all artists on JYP’s roster. That includes TWICE, Stray Kids, ITZY, Xdinary Heroes... Read More...

Live Nation Touts ‘Biggest Quarter Ever’ in Q3 Earnings Report As Revenue Tops $8 Billion

Dylan Smith

November 3, 2023

Live Nation has posted its financials for Q3 2023, which execs say was their company's best quarter to date. Photo Credit: Liam Shaw Q3 2023 was the “biggest quarter ever” for Live Nation, which raked in nort... Read More...

Live Nation Exec Pushes Back Against Reports of Intensifying Justice Department Investigation: ‘We Don’t Think There’s Any Real News Right Now’

Dylan Smith

November 2, 2023

A new report has suggested that the DoJ's Live Nation investigation is intensifying. Photo Credit: Markus Winkler In November of 2022, reports indicated that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary were f... Read More...

Live Nation CEO Responds to U.S. Senator’s Criticism, Reiterates ‘The Importance of All-In Pricing Legislation’

Dylan Smith

October 30, 2023

Photo Credit: Live Nation Last week, a U.S. senator called out Live Nation and Ticketmaster for alleged shortcomings in their implementation of all-in pricing. Now, the promoter’s head has responded to the cr... Read More...

Live Nation and Ticketmaster Face Renewed Capitol Hill Grilling: ‘It Is Still Too Difficult To See the All-In Price Before Checkout’

Dylan Smith

October 27, 2023

Photo Credit: Mike Stoll Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary are facing renewed lawmaker scrutiny over an alleged failure to comprehensively adopt all-in pricing. This latest round of Capitol Hill c... Read More...

Rihanna’s Monster Comeback Tour & Live Nation Deal — True or Nah?

Ashley King

October 24, 2023

Photo Credit: Danilo Lauria / CC by 3.0 Rumors surface of a massive Rihanna comeback tour and $32 million deal with Live Nation — but are those reports ‘bogus?’ Over the weekend, reports surfaced from multip... Read More...

Anderson .Paak Signs On to Direct Live Nation-Funded Film ‘K-Pops!’

Ashley King

October 20, 2023

Photo Credit: Henry W. Laurisch / CC by 4.0 R&B singer Anderson .Paak signs on for his directorial debut with the Live Nation-funded film, ‘K-Pops!’ Global media company Stampede Ventures has announced t... Read More...

Live Nation’s Veeps Launches ‘All Access’ Paid Subscription With Live Concerts and ‘Carefully’ Curated Original Content

Dylan Smith

October 4, 2023

Veeps founders Benji and Joel Madden. Photo Credit: Jordan Kelsey Knight Veeps has officially launched a subscription service through which fans can access "all" available livestream shows and on-demand repla... Read More...

Live Nation drops merch fees at venues, offers headliners a stipend

Live Nation Drops Merch Fees, Offers $1,500 Stipends for Headliners at Clubs

Ashley King

September 27, 2023

Photo Credit: Live Nation Touring for anyone but stadium-selling artists has been a struggle since the pandemic. Now Live Nation says it’ll stop asking for handouts from budding artists by canceling its merch... Read More...

NIVA issues statement on Live Nation venues initiative

National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) Blasts Live Nation’s Attempt to ‘Squeeze Out Independent Venues’

Ashley King

September 27, 2023

Photo Credit: Abstral Official Following news that Live Nation is dropping merch fees and offering travel stipends, the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has issued a statement. Live Nation’s new... Read More...