Goldman Sachs hails ‘insatiable demand’ for live

News By Lisa Henderson | 4 June 2025

The live music industry is continuing to outpace the record business amid an “insatiable consumer demand” for concerts, according to Goldman Sachs’ Music in the Air 2025 report.

In the 91-page research paper, released yesterday (June 3), the investment bank and research firm lowered its global music market forecasts but has tipped live to “remain an attractive market with a solid growth outlook” for the next decade.

For 2025, the bank has actually upped its estimate for the live music market, from…

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