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Industry register

Who owns, operates, books and tickets live music in the United States, one sourced relationship at a time.

Entities
213
Relationships
233
Publishers cited
175
Last verified
2026-10-03

141 published industry records records

What the register holds

Each record states one relationship between two named entities and cites the document it was read from. Ownership, operation, lease, booking, promotion and ticketing are separate relation types, because they are separate facts: the company that owns a building is often not the company that books it, and neither is necessarily the company that sells the ticket.

A relationship that ended is kept, dated and marked historical rather than deleted. The register is a record of what was documented and when, not a snapshot that quietly rewrites itself.

Collections

How the record connects

Every current relationship in the register, arranged in the four layers this industry stacks in and printed with its verb. Capital sits at the left, the room or the event in the middle, distribution at the right. A name links only where the record has cleared the publication threshold. Artist–agency relationships are held in the separate Representation Index and are not duplicated here.

  1. Layer 1 · 44 records

    Companies, non-profits and public authorities

    Owners of the corporate entity, the building or the event

  2. Layer 2 · 20 records

    Promoters and producers

    Parties that book, produce or assume risk on the date

  3. Layer 3 · 118 records

    Venues and festivals

    The rooms and the events the relationships attach to

  4. Layer 4 · 7 records

    Ticketing providers

    Platforms recorded as selling or contracted to sell

Ownership and corporate structure · 53 current

Operation, lease, booking and promotion · 72 current

Ticketing · 62 current

Other recorded relationships · 43 current

Relationships by type

Count of stored relationships by relation type
RelationRecords
Ticketing platform in use62
Operation48
Ownership33
Portfolio listing26
Promotion16
Festival production12
Booking9
Corporate parent7
Majority ownership6
Festival ownership6
Minority investment3
Lease2
Successor1
Festival promotion1
Joint management1

230 current and 3 historical.

Recent changes in the record

  1. 2025-06-05 · Acquisition · announcement date

    Fever announced its acquisition of DICE; the purchase price was not disclosed.

    Source

  2. 2024-11-11 · Closure · announcement date

    Organisers announced that the Pitchfork Music Festival would not return in 2025, ending a nineteen-year run in Chicago's Union Park.

    Source

  3. 2024-08-22 · Acquisition · effective date

    AEG and Onex Partners completed the sale of their ownership interests in the venue management company ASM Global to Legends.

    Source

  4. 2023-04-21 · Divestiture · effective date

    The traditional venue business was spun off as Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp., and the predecessor company was renamed Sphere Entertainment Co.

    Source

  5. 2022-02-04 · Festival ownership change · announcement date

    Penske Media Corporation acquired a controlling interest in the Las Vegas festival Life is Beautiful.

    Source

Full change log

Using the register

The methodology sets out the evidence hierarchy, the publication threshold an entity page must clear, and the claims these records cannot support — market share among them. For the ownership questions readers ask most often, the live music ownership map separates owners, operators, promoters and ticketing providers.

The register records institutions. The people who book the shows are recorded separately in the directory of agencies and agents, which holds one professional record per person, each carrying the dated public source it was read from.

Cite this dataset

Plain
Omar Afra, "Live Index industry register", Live Index, October 3, 2026 (updated October 3, 2026), https://liveindex.io/industry
APA
Afra, O. (2026, October 3). Live Index industry register [Data set]. Live Index. https://liveindex.io/industry
Chicago
Omar Afra. "Live Index industry register." Live Index, October 3, 2026. https://liveindex.io/industry.
BibTeX
@online{industry-2026, author = {Omar Afra}, title = {Live Index industry register}, organization = {Live Index}, date = {2026-10-03}, urldate = {2026-10-03}, url = {https://liveindex.io/industry} }

Records compiled from first-party corporate, municipal and official-site documents and dated trade reports cited on each record.