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LYVLive Nation$179.59+2.39 (+1.35%)
MSGEMSG Entertainment$77.09+0.05 (+0.06%)
SPHRSphere Entertainment$140.63+7.33 (+5.50%)
SEATVivid Seats$6.12+0.08 (+1.32%)
EBEventbrite—
VENUVenu Holding$1.80−0.06 (−3.23%)
EVD.DECTS Eventim€58.65+1.20 (+2.09%)

Alpha Vantage · end-of-day closes, not real time · read 2026-09-29 01:10 UTC

Listed companies with reported live-music exposure. Not an index, not a recommendation, and not a measure of live music alone: only Live Nation is close to a pure-play, and the others report material revenue from sport, theatre, media or other events. Methodology

Top story

Music-Related Legislation Before Congress Right Now: Full List of Bills (UPDATING) (opens billboard.com in a new tab)Billboard Business

Live music news wire

Live Music Industry in Motion

Current developments in the business of live music, aggregated from public publisher feeds, alongside a curated underground and experimental lane from independent publications. Every headline opens the original reporting at its publisher.

Updated 2026-09-29 00:38 UTC160 stored headlines

Industry Notes · Festival economics

Good Men Project Publishes Omar Afra Essay on Festival Economics

The essay uses Afra’s experience with large-scale independent festivals to examine risk, cultural value, and the difference between impact and profit.

Live music dossier

Long-form analysis from Testset

Lead selected by rank; the stream below is newest first. No engagement data is used.

Sources and method — 16 active publishers

Live Index links to original reporting and does not republish full articles. Each item shows the publisher and the publication time supplied by that publisher’s feed; the headline opens the original page. The wire has two layers: a primary business wire covering ticketing and fees, promotion, venues, festivals, consolidation and policy, and a smaller curated Underground & experimental lane drawn from selected independent publications, where music editorial is retained even when it is not strictly business reporting. Personal-conduct and non-music items are filtered out of both. Preview images are supplied by the publisher and remain theirs. Published by Live Index, founded by Omar Afra.

Active

Pending or disabled

  • Resident Advisorpending

    RA no longer exposes a working public RSS endpoint: the historically documented /rss/news path returns 404 and ra.co publishes no rel=alternate feed. Held until an official feed is available.

  • VenuesNowpending

    No feed endpoint returning items could be confirmed. Pending.

  • Music Weekpending

    No public feed retrievable: the site returns 403 to automated requests. Awaiting a confirmed feed or licensed access.

  • Hypebotpending

    The only reachable public feed (FeedBurner) has not updated since 2019 and no current endpoint could be confirmed. Pending a working feed.

  • MIDiA Researchpending

    No public blog feed could be confirmed. Pending.

  • Digital Music Newspending

    Feed endpoint returns 403 to automated retrieval. Pending a permitted access route.

  • HITS Daily Doublepending

    No feed endpoint returning items could be confirmed. Pending.

  • PR Newswire — Entertainmentdisabled

    Wire releases are primary documents rather than reporting; no confirmed category feed. Disabled pending an editorial decision.

  • Business Wire — Entertainmentdisabled

    Category feed identifier not confirmed. Disabled pending verification.

From the Data Console

All indicators and instruments

  • Admissions prices

    +2.6%

    Admissions prices, 12-month change

    August 2026

    Series and method

  • Performing arts employment

    147,100

    Payroll jobs · 111.4% of February 2020

    July 2026

    Series and method

  • Promoter workforce pay

    $21.64

    Median hourly wage, NAICS 711300

    May 2025

    Series and method

Think of it as a Drudge Report for the live music industry: a continuously moving front page of the reporting, deals, disputes and data shaping live entertainment. Live Index is a research publication — the Data Console holds the national indicators, market instruments and price series behind the wire, and research documents the method.