Blog: festival market

This article is derived from MIDiA’s Profiling the Live Consumer report, available to subscribers here . For more information about this report, email stephen@midiaresearch.com . The power balance in music has swung from recorded to live, but will it stay? Live productions have been the prime revenue pusher for the music business since peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading undermined the inherent value of recorded catalogue in the mid-2010’s.