Topping live music news, Rauw Alejandro has become the first Latin artist to perform three back-to-back sold-out nights at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome.
Fans were surprised as Marconi Impara and Yan Block joined Alejandro on Sunday and Monday night to perform their hit song “Espresso Martini.”
• In contrast, when the Beyoncé tour began this week at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium, there are still more than 3,800 tickets available and resale prices have dropped to $20 for the first show. So much for that Grammy Album of the Year bump…
• Online live music trade Rostr, which boasts of 65,000 music industry professionals using its platform one monthly has add a suite of ad products: “No pop-ups. No flashing gifs. No interruptions. Ads that are always labelled as ads. Not shitty.”
• Music Glue has expanded its direct-to-to-fan ticket offering. The platform, which launched in 2007, is used by artists, labels, merchandisers and venues to sell music, merch, tickets and experiences in a single store and own all their data.
Key features of the expanded direct-to-fan ticketing platform:
LIVE (Live music Industry Venues & Entertainment), which represents 15 UK live music industry organizations has announced the LIVE Trust to offer financial support to those working across grassroots live music.
The LIVE Trust receives funding from a voluntary contribution of £1 per ticket on shows with a capacity over 5000. £500k has already been pledged in ticket contributions from artists including Pulp, Diana Ross, Mumford and Sons to Hans Zimmer.
• The U.S House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed the TICKET Act by a bipartisan vote of 409-15. The bill which aims to put more controls on ticket sales and resales now heads to the Senate.
But NIVA and NITO, two influential live music trade groups whose members have first hand knowledge of how ticket sale and resale works, are calling on the Senate to strengthen the TICKET Act before passage. [READ MORE]
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