Country Profile: Argentina
There’s nowhere quite like Argentina, where inflation continues to soar and more than half of the population are living in poverty under new right-wing president Javier Milei, but where large-scale entertainment has, in recent years, been a popular way to spend those shrinking pesos.
At any rate, it remains part of the key touring trinity of major cities, alongside São Paulo in Brazil and Santiago in Chile.
Perhaps the country’s most prominent promoter is Live Nation’s DF Entertainment, which maintains a hotline to River Plate Stadium, with massive shows for Coldplay (ten nights in 2022), Taylor Swift (three nights in 2023), Paul McCartney (two nights in 2024), as well as the local edition of Lollapalooza and numerous relatively smaller concerts.
Last year, DF inked an exclusive multi-year agreement to promote concerts at the stadium, and Live Nation has been linked with a major plan to upgrade and expand Buenos Aires’ legendary Luna Park arena.
Move Concerts is Latin America’s largest independent promoter. Move Argentina MD Sebastian Carlomagno believes the…
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