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# Early stats point to Mixed 2025 for Live Music
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/early-stats-point-to-mixed-2025-for-live-music/
- Published: 2025-03-20T15:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-20T16:04:11.000Z
- Description: After several years of meteoric growth in live music, an analysis by Pollstar of the period of November 14, 2024 to February 12, 2025 point to a mixed 2025 for live music.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, concerts, The Live Stage, music industry, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

After several years of meteoric growth in live music, an analysis by Pollstar of the period of November 14, 2024 to February 12, 2025 point to a mixed 2025 for live music.

### Early stats point to Mixed 2025 for Live Music

Growth in live music had already slowed in 2024 with the grosses for the Top 100 tours only 3.6% above 2023\. Ticket sales were down slightly by less than 1% and most of the growth came from higher ticket prices.

#### **As live music enters 2025, the reverse is now true.**

![$2. alt text: Hypebot infographic showing Q1 top 100 music tours data from 2022 to 2025, including gross revenue, tickets sold, and average ticket prices.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/pollstar-q1-2025.png)

*via [Pollstar](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/03/18/q1-analysis-data-points-to-another-mixed-year-following-post-pandemic-golden-age/?ref=hypebot.com)*

Still above $1 billion, total grosses for the last three months are down 6.4% percent, while the number of tickets sold was up 17.3% for the Top 100 touring artists, according to [Pollstar](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/03/18/q1-analysis-data-points-to-another-mixed-year-following-post-pandemic-golden-age/?ref=hypebot.com) data.

The average per show gross also fell year-over-year by 5%, while the average number of tickets sold per show was up 18.8%

#### Lower Ticket Prices

In what may point to a right-sizing of ticket prices, contributing to the lower grosses and higher sales was a rare drop in average ticket prices.

So fat this year, the average ticket price is $98.40, down 20.2% from $123.25 in 2024.

Read the full Pollstar Q1 analysis [here](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/03/18/q1-analysis-data-points-to-another-mixed-year-following-post-pandemic-golden-age/?ref=hypebot.com).

***Bruce Houghton*** *is the Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), a Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor and founder of the Skyline Artists Agency*