Promotion
Arthur Fogel
Chairman — Global Music and President — Global Touring, Live Nation Entertainment
$1.02B
Combined gross of tours he promoted in 2025 (Beyoncé, Oasis, Lady Gaga)
2025
Pollstar's 2026 Impact 50 entry states that Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour, Oasis' reunion tour and Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball together grossed $1.02 billion on Pollstar's 2025 year-end worldwide touring chart, and identifies Fogel as the Live Nation executive who promoted them. It is a measure of the touring business he runs, not his personal income or wealth.
Source: Pollstar — 2026 Impact 50 honouree: Arthur Fogel (retrieved 2026-09-16)
Hero metrics are sourced, person-specific measures of live-music economic footprint. Company metrics are labelled as company metrics; no synthetic score is used.
Live Nation executive responsible for the company's global music and touring operations.
Last updated 2026-09-15
In short
Arthur Fogel is Chairman — Global Music and President — Global Touring at Live Nation Entertainment. His remit sits at the centre of Live Nation's arena and stadium touring business. Arthur Fogel is chairman of global music and president of global touring at Live Nation Entertainment.
Quick facts
- Current role
- Chairman — Global Music and President — Global Touring
- Organisation
- Live Nation Entertainment
- Primary category
- Promotion
- Known for
- Global touring; Arena and stadium tours; Long tenure at Live Nation
Executive summary
Arthur Fogel is chairman of global music and president of global touring at Live Nation Entertainment. The company's 2026 annual filing states that he has served in these capacities since 2005 and has worked for Live Nation or its predecessors since 1999. That primary filing controls the current-title language used here.
His work concerns the top end of the touring market: internationally routed arena and stadium productions that require coordinated promotion across countries, currencies and venue systems. Trade coverage regularly associates his division with some of the industry's largest tours, but this profile does not treat individual artist relationships as permanent or exclusive.
Fogel's importance is structural rather than celebrity-driven. He operates inside a company that combines promotion, venues and ticketing, so global-tour decisions intersect with the wider consolidation questions documented throughout Live Index.
Why Arthur Fogel matters in live music
Global tours concentrate unusually large guarantees, production commitments and routing risk in a small number of executives. Fogel's continuing authority over that function gives him a direct role in how the industry's largest tours reach markets.
His tenure also provides continuity across Live Nation's growth from a concert promoter into an integrated live-entertainment group, making his record relevant to both touring economics and corporate-consolidation research.
Career record
- 1999Began working for Live Nation or its predecessor companies, according to Live Nation's 2026 Form 10-K.
- Since 2005Has served as chairman of global music and president of global touring, as stated in the 2026 Form 10-K.
- CurrentOversees Live Nation's global touring function.
Sphere of influence
Levels are categorical — Core, Major, Significant, Limited — and each is stated with the evidence it rests on. No numeric score is published, because none would be defensible.
- Global touring Core
- His current corporate title places global touring directly within his remit.
- Concert promotion Core
- He leads a touring function inside the world's largest reported concert promoter.
- Stadium and arena routing Major
- The division works on internationally routed productions at arena and stadium scale.
- Ticketing Significant
- Touring decisions intersect with Ticketmaster through Live Nation's integrated structure, though he does not lead Ticketmaster.
Entity relationships
Current
Arthur Fogel is chairman of global music and president of global touring at Live Nation Entertainment.
Arthur Fogel works within the company led by Michael Rapino.
Arthur Fogel works in Live Nation touring alongside Omar Al-Joulani.
Timeline
- 1999Joined Live Nation or a predecessor organisation.
- 2005Began the capacities identified in the company's current annual filing.
- 2026Current role restated in Live Nation's Form 10-K and Pollstar's Impact 50 profile.
Related Live Index research and records
References and sources
- 2026 Form 10-K — Live Nation Entertainment. Primary corporate source. Retrieved 2026-09-15.Cited for: States his current title, tenure in the role since 2005 and company service since 1999.
- 2026 Impact 50 honouree: Arthur Fogel — Pollstar. Trade press. Retrieved 2026-09-15.Cited for: Current trade profile of his global touring work.
- Arthur Fogel — Festival Forums. Verified profile. Retrieved 2026-09-15.Cited for: Professional biography and source page for the portrait.