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Electronic music first, then everything that fills a venue. News, features and the ticketing figures nobody else publishes.
The Futura Tickets Magazine covers live music from the box office: attendance and revenue figures, resale and pricing regulation, and festival production. Every piece cites its sources and separates the figure supplied by the organiser from the one verified by a third party.
For the day-to-day of organising, there are the operational guides on the blog and the real-time sales data.
UNTOLD Dubai pushes its edition back four months. Its official website lists three days, from 19 to 21 March 2027, and keeps selling passes with no note on the change.
Breda's 2027 budget raises the event licence fee by 112%. D66, PRO and VVD have tabled an amendment to freeze it for one year, and one year only.
Legislative Decree 160/2026 links the face captured at entry to the data on the scanned ticket. And it lets the event organiser install and pay for the kit.
The six competitions in DGARTES's 2027-2030 sustained support programme share out €72.84 million: €10.92 million for music and opera and €20.58 million for theatre. The deadline closed on 6 October.
The Sejm passed the bill by 232 votes to 197. It creates the "status artysty" and a contribution aid scheme for artists with an income ceiling and 21,316 expected beneficiaries.
The text of the Department of Justice's settlement with Live Nation carries twelve obligations: the first would open primary sales at major venues to rival marketplaces.
BAJES opens on 21 October in the former Bijlmerbajes prison, with three spaces and capacity for up to 2,900 visitors. The city council has granted it a temporary operating licence.
The cap will allow zero profit, and the original cost will include unavoidable fees and delivery charges. The cap on platform commissions still has no level set.
The CNM's "aide aux festivals" closes on 20 October. It requires running the billetterie and box-office takings above 15% of the budget: no free festivals allowed.
OCESA declares 13 million attendees and more than 800 shows between July 2025 and July 2026. The figure comes from its sustainability report, with no breakdown by event.
Cabinet Decision 149 of 2026 does not mention events, but its new composite supply rule falls squarely on tickets that bundle admission, drinks and extras.
A federal court denied Live Nation and Ticketmaster's motion to dismiss in full on 28 September 2026: the BOTS Act can also apply to the platform.
Concert and festival scales rise 3% on 1 January 2027. Unisono also publishes what it expects ahead: a further 3% in 2028 and 6% in 2029 and 2030.
The Rapporto SIAE 2025 puts spending on concerts at €1,162 million, up 17.5%. The same report shows active venues down 8.8% and organisers down 10.9%.
GEMA's first quarterly per-festival distribution moved around €3 million across 21 festivals. The setlist decides the money, and submitting late costs an extra 10%.
France's 3.5% box-office levy has nearly doubled its revenue since 2022, and the cap diverted €11 million into the state budget in 2025. The Senate wants it scrapped.
The Flemish budget agreement saves 1,900 million in 2027 and cuts more than 500 in subsidies. Culture is part of the split, but its sector-by-sector figure has not been published.
Decree-Law 23/2014 requires refunds on ticket prices if the headline artist changes. DECO wants the platform's booking fee included in that price.
SOUND IN COLORS x K-POP EXPOSÉ was cancelled three days before it was due to open. UOKiK launched an inquiry on 7 September and referred the case to the Łódź prosecutor's office on the 28th.
Ticketmaster's commitments to the Dutch regulator expire on 20 December 2026. Clause 13 set two years, and rivals already called it too short.
Markus Breitenecker joins DEAG's Vorstand on 1 November and succeeds Detlef Kornett, who departs on 31 December. He arrives from ProSiebenSat.1 and acquires a stake in the company.
£408 including a £5 booking fee, £100 deposit and £308 due in April. Individual registration closed on 25 September, and resale is limited to a single official channel: the festival itself.
UOKiK sanctioned Live Nation over three clauses in its terms and conditions and published a concert guide that, read from the box office side, works as a compliance checklist.
AB 1349 bans selling tickets the seller doesn't hold, listing them before onsale, and calling an event "sold out" while the official channel still has tickets.
The NTIA is celebrating a 0.4% uptick between March and June. The underlying figure: nightclubs are down 36.1% since 2020, while bars are 3.1% above.
The UAE's music licensing fee starts being charged from early December 2026 and covers concerts, but no published fee breakdown sets a rate for live events.
The three 2026 ordinanze apply the legal minimum of €5,000 multiplied by every event on record. The bill depends on the inventory touched, not the mark-up.
The CNM's second evaluation puts France's live-performance tax credit at €35.76 million in 2023 and recommends extending it as early as the 2027 budget bill.
Belgium's Economic Inspectorate checked 13 festivals in 2025 and found breaches in six. It also reviewed their own resale systems and found none.
The UAE's ministerial decisions leave sales to end consumers outside e-invoicing, but the deadline to appoint a provider falls on 30 October.
Decree-Law 65/2026 requires Portugal's public cultural venues to offer a free companion ticket at every performance. Ticketing systems have one year to comply.
From 21 to 25 October, the Amsterdam Dance Event spreads, according to its website, more than 1,200 events across over 300 venues. Tickets are sold separately by each promoter.
iDEAL adopts the name iDEAL | Wero from 2026 and will migrate to the Wero platform. The phase-out timetable is published by Thuiswinkel.org, not iDEAL.
VNPF's annual report on 55 venues: club night visits fall 14% versus 2024, and only 19% sell out. Average ticket price stands at €19.55.
INDEC measures connections and CACE measures e-commerce without breaking out ticketing. On ticketing itself, the Official Gazette records a labelling requirement for resale.
The 2025 annual reports from the two big Dutch venues cover revenue and visitor numbers. What they don't cover is access: an invitation code, a personalised ticket and an ID check at the door.
One product, three rates: €1.69 in Germany, €0.99 in the Netherlands and €1.10 in Spain for a €20 ticket. Its marketplace adds 10% or 6%; payment settles after the event.
One set of results, two faces of live entertainment: Eventim's ticketing leaves a 36.4% margin, its concerts just 5.0%. In 2017 the Bundeskartellamt set it a 20% floor.
elDiario.es counts more than 80 festivals cancelled in 2026, nine months after 2025's record box office. Four verified cases and three checks for promoters.
Recorded music brought in €181.4 million in Spain from January to June 2026, up 11.6%, according to Promusicae. Vinyl is 73% of physical; live music takes in almost twice as much as recordings.
Flagged tracks are held at ingestion and the rights holder is notified; AI-assisted tracks get in with a label if the finished track is mostly human.
Decree No. 13,108 was published in the Diário Oficial da União on 1 September. The virtual queue and full refund rules are already binding; the all-in price waits twenty days.
jazzahead! is accepting applications for its 2027 showcases until 30 September. That same day, the all-days pass you need in order to apply goes up in price.
The platform takes no commission on downloads sold from the artist's profile. The pilot starts with around 200 US accounts chosen by the company.
It is not a public levy: each venue collects the euro on its own and a foundation redistributes it. 85% stays in the city and 15% goes up to the national fund.
The Harris Poll surveyed 603 young Americans about their weekends. 88% avoid some kind of social plan, but 79% want to go out on the cheap: not the same thing.
A third party with access to the PRO DJ LINK network can view the USB drives and SD cards in the player. Models missing from the official table are out of support.
Eleven tracks written and produced by her, released by Exhale Records under catalogue number EXH022. The only outside credit on the tracklist is Angèle on 'run'.
Six Spanish festivals published their closing figures within five days. Not one of the six releases explains how the crowd was counted or puts a name behind the number.
Insolvency in January, a carved-up sale on 1 July and a British subsidiary the register still lists as active. Booth equipment is now split between two groups.
The district rents the land from the owner and hands it on to the clubs. It's a nightlife rescue model with a public price tag and a three-year deadline.
A death at a British festival brings back an uncomfortable question: in Spain, what is the promoter required to have in place, and to do. Self-protection, insurance and notification, rule by rule.
The badge arrives in mid-September and marks the artist's identity, not how the music was made. Suno, meanwhile, opens a waiting list to press vinyl.
Its official press kit makes the case: as a demonstration on public land, there is no admission fee. The trade-off: not a single advert on the Love Mobiles.
Spanish live music took 807.2 million in ticket sales in 2025, up 11.24%. Read in full, the Yearbook describes a far more uneven year than its headline.
IQ Magazine's Global Stadium Report 2026 counts 912 stadium artists in 2025 and leaves just one Spanish venue among its twenty benchmark stadiums.
It would require publishing the minimum price, the maximum price and the full price history before tickets go on sale. The clause wasn't in the draft that went out for public consultation, and the EU transposition deadlines have already passed.
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