UK live industry grew 17% in year before Covid
2019 was the live sector's most successful year to date before "catastrophic blow" of Covid-19, according to UK Music's annual Music By Numbers report
News By IQ | 17 November 2020
The worth of the UK’s live music industry increased by 17% in 2019, according to UK Music’s flagship annual economic study.
The Music By Numbers 2020 report says that the live sector enjoyed its most successful year to date in 2019 and that 2020 was “shaping up to be even stronger” but due to the pandemic is now in “urgent need of a lifeline”.
According to the recently published UK live music: At a cliff edge report, the live sector contributed £4.5 bn…