Gamers: 750m new live music fans?

Three quarters of a billion people play online video games regularly. As Travis Scott and Epic Games have shown, each gamer is also a potential concertgoer

Feature By IQ | 27 May 2020

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Live music professionals who fail to capitalise on the lockdown-era boom in videogaming will miss out on a confirmed audience of more than three quarters of a billion potential fans, new analysis of player numbers for some of the biggest online games reveals.

A total of 758.5 million people – more than live in Europe, and some 2.5 times the population of the US – regularly play one or more of the 20 most popular online multiplayer video games for…

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