This has modified reside music in Spain: ticket costs for clouds and rage for festivals | Culture | EUROtoday

Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift and Karol G are a few of the creative phenomena which have highlighted the fever for reside music in Spain. The figures present it: the reside music trade crosses a second of prosperity. Public help – and costs – have multiplied. In 2024, the sector reached a turnover of 726 million euros, promoted by the just about 110,000 concert events all through the nation. That is, not solely has he recovered strongly after the pandemic, however has doubled his earlier manufacturers.

Last week Bad Bunny broke the file in Spain by exhausting 12 stadium concert events on a day, which implies 600,000 tickets bought. Official costs ranged between 80 and 220 euros. However, some followers used social networks to tell that that they had acquired tickets for as much as 600 euros, as a result of dynamic worth coverage of Ticketmaster, which will increase costs in response to the demand of the occasion.

The costs strongly exceeded the common expenditure per ticket of 84 euros, reported by that very same platform by 2024. This determine is double that in 2015, when the common worth was 42 euros, in response to the White Paper of Ticketmaster and the Association of Musical Promoters (APM).

The entrances which have seen the best improve are these of the most effective places, whereas within the most cost-effective tícts comparatively secure costs have been maintained.

For instance, on the final time Chayanne offered himself in Madrid, 12 years in the past, the most costly ticket had a worth of 75 euros. This 12 months, to see the Puerto Rican within the capital, from the most costly place within the enclosure, it’s 225 euros (not counting extra administration prices imposed by gross sales platforms).

International excursions, nationwide excursions

In 2024, Taylor Swift introduced collectively 119,000 folks in two nights at Bernabéu, that very same 12 months David Bisbal congregated the identical variety of folks throughout his tour, nonetheless he did it over 46 concert events. The demand for tickets, prices and inflow in a single live performance, are a few of the essential distinction in figures between worldwide and nationwide excursions. The crowds that overseas artists collect within the largest enclosures within the nation on a number of dates, Spanish artists require dozens of performances to achieve comparable figures. The common concert events of nationwide artists to convene 100,000 folks is 32 exhibits, in comparison with the six for foreigners.

At the nationwide degree, Melendi leads the viewers record with virtually two million folks on 5 excursions and 208 concert events, since 2010. At this time 33 Spanish artists have managed to beat the 100.00 attendees model. The Asturian is adopted by Fito & Fitipaldis, with 1.5 million attendees in 174 concert events, and Alejandro Sanz with Manuel Carrasco, each with 1.2 million attendees accrued on their excursions of the final Quindenio.

Madrid is the epicenter of worldwide excursions. In the final two years 42% of the concert events have been carried out in situations of the capital. While Barcelona acquired 19% and the remaining 38% was distributed all through the remainder of Spain.

In common, metropolitan areas with greater than 200,000 inhabitants are the principle nucleus for reside music, in 2024 they concentrated 47% of the overall reside music viewers of Spain.

Festivals increase: essential locations C. Valenciana and Catalonia

Festivals have been the engine for reside music. The variety of occasions has oscillated between 850 and 885 per 12 months, since 2010. However, the expansion in help, quantity of concert events and billing has multiplied. Such is the case of Arenal Sound, on the seaside of Burriana, which has acquired 300,000 attendees every version since 2017. The just one who has handed it was Spring Sound, in Barcelona by celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2022. The competition was distributed in two weekends and broke the file of help with greater than half one million spectators.

The festivals are much less centralized within the capital. Among the ten largest, solely Mad Cool is held in Madrid (this with out considering cycle festivals as botanist nights). The area that leads is the Valencian Community with the best quantity festivals and assistants, together with the FIB, Rototom Sunplash, Sansas Festival, Medusa Festival and Zebra Festival, in response to the APM.

On the opposite aspect of the nation, Galicia has seen the gathering related to concert events in 70% from the pandemic. In this neighborhood, the O Son do Camiño stands out that in its 2024 version had 126,000 attendees, amongst which have been Green Day, J Balvin, Pet Shop Boy, Melendi and Van Gogh’s ear.