Bandsintown Study Breaks Down Live Music s Meteoric Return
By Scott Russell | May 26, 2021 | 2:58pm
Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns
As any sort of awareness of the internet (particularly
Paste Music’s news section) the past couple weeks will tell you, live music is back in a big way. The tour and festival lineup announcements are flying thick and fast, and live music hub Bandsintown has shared some hard data to quantify the chaos.
Upcoming concerts listed on the site have skyrocketed, from 87,000 at the start of 2021 many of which were likely livestreams to 222,170 now (about a 2.5x multiplier), 78% of which will occur before year’s end. On average, artists are announcing more than quadruple the amount of concerts they were during the pandemic. The upward trend only continues in 2022, with twice as many artists on stages as there were before the pandemic, a staggering projection. Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. are the individual countries leading the way (though