2023: A year in trends

Once again, it’s been an eventful 12 months in the global live entertainment business worldwide. Here’s how the industry changed in 2023

Feature By IQ | 20 December 2023

Once again, it’s been an eventful 12 months in the global live entertainment business worldwide. And while challenges abound, it’s set to be a record year for many. Whether you took a 12-month sabbatical to a Wi-Fi-free island or were just so busy trying to get through 2023 that you hadn’t noticed the business around you, here’s how the live business changed in 2023...2023 WAS A MAMMOTH YEAR FOR LIVE MUSIC While 2022 was the biggest year on record for live music, incredibly it seems like 2023 is on course to be even larger, both in terms of tickets sold and box office revenues, driven in no small part by a packed calendar of stad

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