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Live Index Research Desk
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The collective byline for index releases, dataset documentation and methodology notes produced jointly by the desk.
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Biography
The Live Index Research Desk is the collective byline for work produced jointly by the platform's research, data engineering and editorial functions.
It is used for index releases, dataset documentation and methodology notes where authorship is genuinely institutional rather than individual. Where a single person is responsible for an analytical decision, that person is credited by name instead.
Research areas
Derived from published work, not written by hand. Each area reflects classified subjects in documents this profile is credited on.
- Data61
- Market Health61
- Consolidation57
- Venue Economics48
- Ticket Pricing45
- Independent Promoters40
- Artist Economics38
- Festival Economics34
- Infrastructure27
- Artist Leverage24
- Festivals24
- Ticketing24
- Affordability22
- Fan Affordability22
- Industry Structure21
- Touring21
- Ownership20
- Independence19
- Economic Impact17
- Cultural Infrastructure16
- Resilience14
- Fan Alignment13
- Participation13
- Resale13
- Access12
- Live Music Economics12
- Dynamic Pricing10
- Localism10
- Venues10
- Fan Economics07
- Data Ownership05
- Adaptive Reuse04
- Cultural Value04
- Urban Economics03
- Cultural Economics02
- Hospitality02
- Tourism02
- Urban Development02
- Music Technology01
- Technology01
Research by Live Index Research Desk
Roles are recorded as performed. Editing, data analysis and review are credited without being promoted into a byline.
01
Author · Review · Historical Study ·
Day for Night, 2015–2017: sound, light and summit programming
02
Data analysis · Analysis ·
The Festival Arms Race: How Immersive Production Changed the Economics of Live Music
03
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Bonnaroo? A Controlling Interest, a Farm, and an Undisclosed Cap Table
04
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Lollapalooza? The Producer Is Controlled; the Brand Is Not Disclosed
05
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Austin City Limits Music Festival? C3 Owns It; Live Nation Controls C3
06
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns AXS? AEG's Ticketing Division, and the Clients It Is Not
07
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Forest Hills Stadium? A Tennis Club, a Licence, and a Concert Business
08
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns The Fillmore Philadelphia? Operated by Live Nation; Title Not Established
09
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Saudi PIF in Music and Live Entertainment: What It Owns, What It Partners In, and What It Sold
10
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Red Rocks Amphitheatre? How a Publicly Owned Venue Actually Works
11
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Radio City Music Hall? The Lease Behind the “MSG Owns It” Shorthand
12
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns Coachella? AEG, Goldenvoice and the Ground It Stands On
13
Research · Review · Historical Study ·
Who Owns Ticketmaster? From Ticketron Rival to Live Nation Subsidiary
14
Review · Analysis ·
What Is a Concert Ticket Manifest?
15
Review · Analysis ·
Concert Ticket Scaling Explained
16
17
18
Review · Analysis ·
Average Ticket Price (ATP) Explained for Concerts
19
Review · Analysis ·
Concert Sell-Through Rate: The Denominator Matters
20
Review · Analysis ·
What Is a Concert Offer Sheet?
21
Review · Analysis ·
What Are Artist Avails? How Concert Dates Move From Availability to Confirmation
22
Review · Analysis ·
What Is the House Nut in a Concert Deal?
23
Review · Analysis ·
Net Box Office vs. Gross Box Office: The Terms Behind Concert Settlement
24
Review · Analysis ·
Concert Break-Even Attendance: A Simple Model, Not an Industry Benchmark
25
Review · Analysis ·
Ticket Sales Velocity: How Fast a Concert Is Selling
26
Review · Analysis ·
Ticket Sales Pacing: How Promoters Compare a Show With Its Comp Set
27
Review · Analysis ·
Why Concert Tickets Suddenly Appear: Production Holds and Late Releases
28
Review · Analysis ·
Hard Ticket vs. Soft Ticket Events in Live Music
29
30
Review · Analysis ·
How Does a Concert Promoter Estimate Artist Draw?
31
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Concert Presales Explained: How Tickets Are Released Before the On-Sale
32
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Live Nation vs AEG: What Each Company Actually Owns, Operates and Controls
33
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Ticketmaster Market Share: What the Evidence Actually Supports
34
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
What Percentage of Ticket Sales Actually Goes to the Artist?
35
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Concert Merch Cuts: What Venues Take, and What the Documents Actually Show
36
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
What It Costs an Independent Band to Tour: One Disclosed Budget, Read Closely
37
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Why Music Festivals Get Canceled: The Cost Structure That Makes Failure Ordinary
38
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Does Live Nation Own Insomniac? What the Record Documents, and What It Doesn't
39
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
NAICS 711300, Explained: The Federal Code Behind Every “Concert Industry” Statistic
40
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
Live Music Employment Data: What the Federal Sources Actually Measure
41
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
Publicly Traded Live-Entertainment Companies: A 2026 Researcher's Guide
42
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Ye Stadium Economics 2026: Capacity, Ticket Prices, Attendance and Gross
43
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
The Biggest Concert Promoters in America: A 2026 Ownership and Market Map
44
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
What Does Live Nation Actually Own? A Company-by-Company Map
45
Data analysis · Review · Study ·
The American Concert Venue Capacity Atlas
46
Data analysis · Review · Methodology ·
What Did Concert Tickets Actually Cost? 1970–2026
47
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
How Big Is the Concert Ticket Resale Market? Auditing the Numbers
48
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Did All-In Ticket Pricing Actually Lower Ticket Fees?
49
Data analysis · Review · Study ·
Who Represents American Touring Artists? Booking Agency Concentration in 2026
50
Data analysis · Review · Dataset ·
The Festival Cancellation Register: 2025–2027
51
Data analysis · Review · Research ·
What Does Festival Cancellation Insurance Actually Cover?
52
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
Live Music Price Monitor — July 2026 reading
53
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
Festival affordability update — July 2026
54
Data analysis · Review · Data Brief ·
Touring Middle Dashboard v1 — July 2026
55
57
Review · Note ·
How venue growth and a weakening touring middle can both be true
58
Author · Review · Historical Study ·
Free Press Summer Fest, 2009–2015: growth, attendance and the Houston festival market
59
Author · Review · Economic Impact Study ·
Houston festival attendance and economic-impact evidence, 2009–2017
60
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
The U.S. Live Music Venue Graph: Ownership, Operation and Ticketing Are Different Facts
61
Research · Review · Analysis ·
How Much of the Live-Music Business Does Live Nation Actually Control?
62
Research · Review · Analysis ·
What Would a Ticketmaster Divestiture Actually Change?
63
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Venue Exclusivity and Ticketing Contracts: What the Public Record Shows
64
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
The Total Cost of Attending a Concert
65
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Are Concert Audiences Shrinking as Prices Rise?
66
Research · Review · Analysis ·
The Fan Divestment Problem
67
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
How Many Tickets Does an Artist Need to Sell to Make a Tour Work?
68
Research · Review · Analysis ·
What a Sold-Out Show Actually Pays an Artist
69
Data analysis · Review · Methodology ·
Touring Cost Inflation: Labor, Fuel, Hotels and Production
70
Research · Review · Methodology ·
Guarantees, Door Deals and Percentage Deals
71
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Why Gross Revenue Tells You Almost Nothing About Artist Profit
72
Research · Review · Historical Study ·
The American Festival Boom and Bust, 2005–2026
73
Data analysis · Review · Methodology ·
How Many Major U.S. Festivals Survive Ten Years?
74
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns America’s Major Music Festivals?
75
Research · Review · Historical Study ·
The 2010–2017 Festival Acquisition Wave
76
Research · Review · Analysis ·
Why Mid-Sized Festivals Fail
77
Data analysis · Review · Methodology ·
Festival Ticket Prices vs Inflation
78
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
What a 40,000-Capacity Festival Has to Gross to Survive
79
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
Who Represents American Live Music?
80
Data analysis · Review · Analysis ·
The Superfan Economy Is Replacing the Concert Audience
81
Review · Analysis ·
Are Superstar Tours Hollowing Out Live Music?
82
Research contribution · Analysis ·
Why Buying Concert Tickets Early Can Cost You More
83
Review · Analysis ·
Live Music Is Booming. So Why Can’t Working Artists Make Touring Pay?
84
Review · Analysis ·
If Live Nation Is Broken Up, Who Actually Benefits?
85
Data analysis · Analysis ·
The Fan Affordability Index: What a Night of Live Music Actually Costs in 2026
86
Research contribution · Analysis ·
The Touring Middle Is Getting Crushed
87
Review · Analysis ·
Who Owns the Fan?
88
Research contribution · Analysis ·
The Ticket Fee Stack, Line by Line
89
Data analysis · Data Brief ·
The Live Music Pulse: 2026 Baseline
90
Research contribution · Analysis ·
America’s Broken Venue Ladder
91
Research contribution · Analysis ·
The Independent Promoter Margin Problem
92
Research contribution · Analysis ·
Who Controls America’s Live Music Rooms?
93
Research contribution · Analysis ·
Houston: A Data Portrait of an Undervalued Concert Market
94
Data analysis · Analysis ·
The Headliner Inventory Problem
95
Data analysis · Analysis ·
Metal’s Quiet Bull Market
96
Author · Data Brief ·
Artist Ticketing Control Matrix
97
Author · Analysis ·
When Does Scale Become Market Power?
98
Author · Data Brief ·
The Live Music Undercount
99
Data analysis · Analysis ·
The Festival Bubble: What It Looked Like From Inside
100
Review · Analysis ·
A Sold-Out Festival Can Still Be a Bad Business
101
Editor · Note ·
What I Got Wrong About Festival Economics
102
Data analysis · Analysis ·
The Live Nation Flywheel: How Consolidation Actually Works
103
Review · Analysis ·
When Will Artists Route Around Ticketmaster?
104
Data analysis · Analysis ·
Stop Calling It the Latin Market
105
Data analysis · Analysis ·
Where Streaming Data Fails as a Concert Forecast
106
Co-author · Study ·
Grassroots venue loss is an inventory problem, not a news cycle
107
Data analysis · Review · Methodology ·
Measuring concert ticket price inflation without measuring the wrong thing
108
Research · Market Paper ·
Market gravity: why some cities are routinely skipped
Ticket pricing
- The Festival Arms Race: How Immersive Production Changed the Economics of Live Music
- Who Owns AXS? AEG's Ticketing Division, and the Clients It Is Not
- Who Owns Ticketmaster? From Ticketron Rival to Live Nation Subsidiary
- What Is a Concert Ticket Manifest?
- Concert Ticket Scaling Explained
- Holds, Kills, Comps and Sellable Inventory: Why Venue Capacity Is Not Ticket Inventory
- Gross Potential in Concert Ticketing: What the Room Can Gross Before It Sells a Ticket
- Average Ticket Price (ATP) Explained for Concerts
- Concert Sell-Through Rate: The Denominator Matters
- Net Box Office vs. Gross Box Office: The Terms Behind Concert Settlement
- Concert Presales Explained: How Tickets Are Released Before the On-Sale
- Ticketmaster Market Share: What the Evidence Actually Supports
- What Percentage of Ticket Sales Actually Goes to the Artist?
- Ye Stadium Economics 2026: Capacity, Ticket Prices, Attendance and Gross
- What Does Live Nation Actually Own? A Company-by-Company Map
- What Did Concert Tickets Actually Cost? 1970–2026
- How Big Is the Concert Ticket Resale Market? Auditing the Numbers
- Did All-In Ticket Pricing Actually Lower Ticket Fees?
- Live Music Price Monitor — July 2026 reading
- What the official price index does and does not capture about going out
- How Much of the Live-Music Business Does Live Nation Actually Control?
- What Would a Ticketmaster Divestiture Actually Change?
- Venue Exclusivity and Ticketing Contracts: What the Public Record Shows
- The Total Cost of Attending a Concert
- The Fan Divestment Problem
- What a Sold-Out Show Actually Pays an Artist
- Why Gross Revenue Tells You Almost Nothing About Artist Profit
- Festival Ticket Prices vs Inflation
- The Superfan Economy Is Replacing the Concert Audience
- Why Buying Concert Tickets Early Can Cost You More
- If Live Nation Is Broken Up, Who Actually Benefits?
- The Fan Affordability Index: What a Night of Live Music Actually Costs in 2026
- Who Owns the Fan?
- The Ticket Fee Stack, Line by Line
- The Headliner Inventory Problem
- The Festival Bubble: What It Looked Like From Inside
- Measuring concert ticket price inflation without measuring the wrong thing
Affordability
- Average Ticket Price (ATP) Explained for Concerts
- What Did Concert Tickets Actually Cost? 1970–2026
- Did All-In Ticket Pricing Actually Lower Ticket Fees?
- Live Music Price Monitor — July 2026 reading
- Festival affordability update — July 2026
- What the official price index does and does not capture about going out
- Why a festival's sticker price says so little about what it costs to attend
- The Total Cost of Attending a Concert
- Are Concert Audiences Shrinking as Prices Rise?
- The Fan Divestment Problem
- Festival Ticket Prices vs Inflation
- The Superfan Economy Is Replacing the Concert Audience
- Why Buying Concert Tickets Early Can Cost You More
- The Fan Affordability Index: What a Night of Live Music Actually Costs in 2026
- The Ticket Fee Stack, Line by Line
- Measuring concert ticket price inflation without measuring the wrong thing
Venues
- Day for Night, 2015–2017: sound, light and summit programming
- Who Owns Forest Hills Stadium? A Tennis Club, a Licence, and a Concert Business
- Who Owns The Fillmore Philadelphia? Operated by Live Nation; Title Not Established
- Who Owns Red Rocks Amphitheatre? How a Publicly Owned Venue Actually Works
- Who Owns Radio City Music Hall? The Lease Behind the “MSG Owns It” Shorthand
- What Is a Concert Ticket Manifest?
- Concert Ticket Scaling Explained
- Holds, Kills, Comps and Sellable Inventory: Why Venue Capacity Is Not Ticket Inventory
- Concert Sell-Through Rate: The Denominator Matters
- What Is a Concert Offer Sheet?
- What Are Artist Avails? How Concert Dates Move From Availability to Confirmation
- What Is the House Nut in a Concert Deal?
- Concert Break-Even Attendance: A Simple Model, Not an Industry Benchmark
- Paid Attendance, Tickets Distributed and Scanned Attendance Are Not the Same Number
- How Does a Concert Promoter Estimate Artist Draw?
- Ye Stadium Economics 2026: Capacity, Ticket Prices, Attendance and Gross
- What Does Live Nation Actually Own? A Company-by-Company Map
- The American Concert Venue Capacity Atlas
- Touring Middle Dashboard v1 — July 2026
- How venue growth and a weakening touring middle can both be true
- The U.S. Live Music Venue Graph: Ownership, Operation and Ticketing Are Different Facts
- How Much of the Live-Music Business Does Live Nation Actually Control?
- Venue Exclusivity and Ticketing Contracts: What the Public Record Shows
- How Many Tickets Does an Artist Need to Sell to Make a Tour Work?
- What a Sold-Out Show Actually Pays an Artist
- Touring Cost Inflation: Labor, Fuel, Hotels and Production
- Guarantees, Door Deals and Percentage Deals
- Are Superstar Tours Hollowing Out Live Music?
- Live Music Is Booming. So Why Can’t Working Artists Make Touring Pay?
- If Live Nation Is Broken Up, Who Actually Benefits?
- The Touring Middle Is Getting Crushed
- Who Owns the Fan?
- The Live Music Pulse: 2026 Baseline
- America’s Broken Venue Ladder
- The Independent Promoter Margin Problem
- Who Controls America’s Live Music Rooms?
- Houston: A Data Portrait of an Undervalued Concert Market
- Grassroots venue loss is an inventory problem, not a news cycle
Touring
- Gross Potential in Concert Ticketing: What the Room Can Gross Before It Sells a Ticket
- What Is a Concert Offer Sheet?
- What Are Artist Avails? How Concert Dates Move From Availability to Confirmation
- What Is the House Nut in a Concert Deal?
- Net Box Office vs. Gross Box Office: The Terms Behind Concert Settlement
- Concert Break-Even Attendance: A Simple Model, Not an Industry Benchmark
- Ticket Sales Velocity: How Fast a Concert Is Selling
- Ticket Sales Pacing: How Promoters Compare a Show With Its Comp Set
- Hard Ticket vs. Soft Ticket Events in Live Music
- How Does a Concert Promoter Estimate Artist Draw?
- What Percentage of Ticket Sales Actually Goes to the Artist?
- Concert Merch Cuts: What Venues Take, and What the Documents Actually Show
- What It Costs an Independent Band to Tour: One Disclosed Budget, Read Closely
- Ye Stadium Economics 2026: Capacity, Ticket Prices, Attendance and Gross
- The Biggest Concert Promoters in America: A 2026 Ownership and Market Map
- Who Represents American Touring Artists? Booking Agency Concentration in 2026
- Touring Middle Dashboard v1 — July 2026
- How venue growth and a weakening touring middle can both be true
- Are Concert Audiences Shrinking as Prices Rise?
- How Many Tickets Does an Artist Need to Sell to Make a Tour Work?
- What a Sold-Out Show Actually Pays an Artist
- Touring Cost Inflation: Labor, Fuel, Hotels and Production
- Guarantees, Door Deals and Percentage Deals
- Why Gross Revenue Tells You Almost Nothing About Artist Profit
- Who Represents American Live Music?
- Are Superstar Tours Hollowing Out Live Music?
- Live Music Is Booming. So Why Can’t Working Artists Make Touring Pay?
- The Touring Middle Is Getting Crushed
- The Live Music Pulse: 2026 Baseline
- America’s Broken Venue Ladder
- The Independent Promoter Margin Problem
- Who Controls America’s Live Music Rooms?
- Houston: A Data Portrait of an Undervalued Concert Market
- The Headliner Inventory Problem
- Metal’s Quiet Bull Market
- The Live Nation Flywheel: How Consolidation Actually Works
- Stop Calling It the Latin Market
- Where Streaming Data Fails as a Concert Forecast
- Market gravity: why some cities are routinely skipped
Cities
- Day for Night, 2015–2017: sound, light and summit programming
- Free Press Summer Fest, 2009–2015: growth, attendance and the Houston festival market
- Houston festival attendance and economic-impact evidence, 2009–2017
- Grassroots venue loss is an inventory problem, not a news cycle
- Market gravity: why some cities are routinely skipped
Festival economics
- Day for Night, 2015–2017: sound, light and summit programming
- The Festival Arms Race: How Immersive Production Changed the Economics of Live Music
- Who Owns Bonnaroo? A Controlling Interest, a Farm, and an Undisclosed Cap Table
- Who Owns Lollapalooza? The Producer Is Controlled; the Brand Is Not Disclosed
- Who Owns Austin City Limits Music Festival? C3 Owns It; Live Nation Controls C3
- Who Owns Coachella? AEG, Goldenvoice and the Ground It Stands On
- What Is a Concert Offer Sheet?
- What Is the House Nut in a Concert Deal?
- Concert Break-Even Attendance: A Simple Model, Not an Industry Benchmark
- Ticket Sales Velocity: How Fast a Concert Is Selling
- Ticket Sales Pacing: How Promoters Compare a Show With Its Comp Set
- Hard Ticket vs. Soft Ticket Events in Live Music
- How Does a Concert Promoter Estimate Artist Draw?
- Live Nation vs AEG: What Each Company Actually Owns, Operates and Controls
- Why Music Festivals Get Canceled: The Cost Structure That Makes Failure Ordinary
- Does Live Nation Own Insomniac? What the Record Documents, and What It Doesn't
- The Biggest Concert Promoters in America: A 2026 Ownership and Market Map
- The Festival Cancellation Register: 2025–2027
- What Does Festival Cancellation Insurance Actually Cover?
- Live Music Price Monitor — July 2026 reading
- Festival affordability update — July 2026
- Touring Middle Dashboard v1 — July 2026
- Why a festival's sticker price says so little about what it costs to attend
- How venue growth and a weakening touring middle can both be true
- Free Press Summer Fest, 2009–2015: growth, attendance and the Houston festival market
- Houston festival attendance and economic-impact evidence, 2009–2017
- How Much of the Live-Music Business Does Live Nation Actually Control?
- How Many Tickets Does an Artist Need to Sell to Make a Tour Work?
- Touring Cost Inflation: Labor, Fuel, Hotels and Production
- Guarantees, Door Deals and Percentage Deals
- The American Festival Boom and Bust, 2005–2026
- How Many Major U.S. Festivals Survive Ten Years?
- Who Owns America’s Major Music Festivals?
- The 2010–2017 Festival Acquisition Wave
- Why Mid-Sized Festivals Fail
- Festival Ticket Prices vs Inflation
- What a 40,000-Capacity Festival Has to Gross to Survive
- Who Represents American Live Music?
- Are Superstar Tours Hollowing Out Live Music?
- Live Music Is Booming. So Why Can’t Working Artists Make Touring Pay?
- If Live Nation Is Broken Up, Who Actually Benefits?
- The Touring Middle Is Getting Crushed
- Who Owns the Fan?
- America’s Broken Venue Ladder
- The Independent Promoter Margin Problem
- Who Controls America’s Live Music Rooms?
- The Headliner Inventory Problem
- Metal’s Quiet Bull Market
- When Does Scale Become Market Power?
- The Live Music Undercount
- The Festival Bubble: What It Looked Like From Inside
- A Sold-Out Festival Can Still Be a Bad Business
- What I Got Wrong About Festival Economics
- The Live Nation Flywheel: How Consolidation Actually Works
- Market gravity: why some cities are routinely skipped
Historical studies
- Day for Night, 2015–2017: sound, light and summit programming
- Who Owns Ticketmaster? From Ticketron Rival to Live Nation Subsidiary
- Free Press Summer Fest, 2009–2015: growth, attendance and the Houston festival market
- Houston festival attendance and economic-impact evidence, 2009–2017
- The American Festival Boom and Bust, 2005–2026
- The 2010–2017 Festival Acquisition Wave
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