Market Report: UK

Competition is steep in all aspects of the UK music market – from tours to tickets and everything in between, there’s never a shortage of activity.

Despite an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, tours continue to flourish with Taylor Swift doing eight nights at Wembley Stadium (alongside Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Liverpool), and Bruce Springsteen, Travis Scott, Madonna, The Killers, and Olivia Rodrigo all made stops here as well.

The OVG-backed Co-op Live arena in Manchester opened its doors in May.

Primary ticketing
Two major acquisitions have taken place this past year. Firstly, CTS Eventim acquired Glastonbury ticketer See Tickets in June in a €300m deal. Both companies will…