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Live music, told from the box office

Electronic music first, then everything that fills a venue. News, features and the ticketing figures nobody else publishes.

The Futura Tickets Magazine covers live music from the box office: attendance and revenue figures, resale and pricing regulation, and festival production. Every piece cites its sources and separates the figure supplied by the organiser from the one verified by a third party.

For the day-to-day of organising, there are the operational guides on the blog and the real-time sales data.

News

Brazil: virtual queue and full refunds now binding; the rest of the ticketing decree in 20 days

Decree No. 13,108 was published in the Diário Oficial da União on 1 September. The virtual queue and full refund rules are already binding; the all-in price waits twenty days.

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News

SoundCloud opens commission-free direct sales, but only to around 200 artists in the United States

The platform takes no commission on downloads sold from the artist's profile. The pilot starts with around 200 US accounts chosen by the company.

2 min
News

Germany trials the Club-Euro nationwide: a one-euro ticket levy collected by venues and shared from the largest to the smallest

It is not a public levy: each venue collects the euro on its own and a foundation redistributes it. 85% stays in the city and 15% goes up to the national fund.

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News

Gen Z and nightlife: The Harris Poll report measures price, noise and the hour, not the urge to go out

The Harris Poll surveyed 603 young Americans about their weekends. 88% avoid some kind of social plan, but 79% want to go out on the cheap: not the same thing.

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News

AlphaTheta admits a vulnerability in PRO DJ LINK and its patch list leaves the oldest booths out

A third party with access to the PRO DJ LINK network can view the USB drives and SD cards in the player. Models missing from the official table are out of support.

3 min
News

AURA, Amelie Lens's debut album, is out on 4 September on her own label

Eleven tracks written and produced by her, released by Exhale Records under catalogue number EXH022. The only outside credit on the tracklist is Angèle on 'run'.

2 min
Features

Who counts festival crowds: six figures from August and not one of them explains how the counting was done

Six Spanish festivals published their closing figures within five days. Not one of the six releases explains how the crowd was counted or puts a name behind the number.

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Features

Native Instruments ended up sold in pieces: what it means for the venue paying off a DJ booth over ten years

Insolvency in January, a carved-up sale on 1 July and a British subsidiary the register still lists as active. Booth equipment is now split between two groups.

11 min
News

Spotify to flag AI-generated artist profiles with an "AI Persona" badge

The badge arrives in mid-September and marks the artist's identity, not how the music was made. Suno, meanwhile, opens a waiting list to press vinyl.

3 min
News

Zurich's Street Parade charges no admission: its organisers say it is not a festival

Its official press kit makes the case: as a demonstration on public land, there is no admission fee. The trade-off: not a single advert on the Love Mobiles.

3 min
Features

Live Music Yearbook 2026: 807 million at the box office and 92% of the growth in two provinces

Spanish live music took 807.2 million in ticket sales in 2025, up 11.24%. Read in full, the Yearbook describes a far more uneven year than its headline.

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News

912 artists headlined a stadium in 2025: IQ's report leaves a single Spanish venue on its list

IQ Magazine's Global Stadium Report 2026 counts 912 stadium artists in 2025 and leaves just one Spanish venue among its twenty benchmark stadiums.

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