Premier League football club Manchester United has announced today (Monday) that it will replace the executive seating area in Old Trafford’s Stretford End with admission season tickets following consultation with fans. United has worked with its fans’ advisory board to review the presence of 850 executive seats in the famous Stretford End in support of …
No Barcelona Beach Festival in 2023
Barcelona Beach Festival (BBF) will not run this year after the local council did not grant a license for the live music event. Live Nation said that the festival would not take place as the municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs did not grant a license, and that an alternative location could not be found. …
ESNS23 welcomes 40,000 festival-goers and 4,250 professionals
ESNS23 welcomed over 40,000 festival visitors and over 4,250 industry professionals across its sold-out festival and conference. The 37th edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS), which took place between January 18 and 21, took place in Groningen for the first time in two years. The music line-up featured 315 emerging artists from 39 European countries, while …
Madonna sells 600,000 tickets for The Celebration Tour
Madonna has already sold out 36 shows of her recently announced Celebration Tour, with over 600,000 tickets snapped up by fans. Sold out shows are set for Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and more. Due to demand, an extra 23 dates were also added across North America and Europe. The tour will …
Swansea Grand Theatre breaks box office records with panto
Swansea Grand Theatre has welcomed more than 33,000 visitors during the last couple of months, enticed by the venue’s 2022-23 pantomime, Beauty and the Beast. The production was so popular that ticket sales have broken previous records, and a number of customers watched the performance more than once. Visitors also helped to raise £18,473.21 (€21,000/$23,000) …
Amateur side to face PSG in French Cup with over 30,000 tickets sold
Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain is set to meet a small village team from France’s regional sixth footballing tier, with over 30,000 tickets having been sold for the French Cup (Coupe de France) tie. US Pays de Cassel, which represents a few villages in the far north of France, will take on the French giants …
Theatre shows could be impacted by possible industrial action
West End theatre shows could be impacted by industrial action around Easter time, as performers discuss walking out on strike if their pay demands are not met. According to a report from the BBC, performing arts trade union Equity has put in a 17% pay rise request to the Society of London Theatre. Equity told …
EuroLeague witnesses record average attendances
The Turkish Airlines EuroLeague has witnessed its highest average attendances in the league’s history, just over halfway into the regular season. Almost 8,810 people on average are attending basketball games across the league, a figure that has surpassed the incomplete 2019-20 season’s figure of 8,739. The highest attendance figure for a complete season is 8,413, …
Q&A with Softjourn’s Lyubomyr Nykyforuk: Trends in 2023
TheTicketingBusiness spoke to Lyubomyr Nykyforuk, Softjourn’s head of the solution creation department, about ticketing trends in 2023 and the role of Web3 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the sector. Nykyforuk has over 16 years of experience within the industry and has been working on Softjourn ticketing projects since 2007, when the company signed its first …
Real Salt Lake offers season ticket members chance to win extra perks
Real Salt Lake season ticket members will have the chance to win perks and prizes as part of the Major League Soccer (MLS) club’s new partnership with SeatGeek. Ahead of the 2023 regular season, members will have the chance to win a number of prizes including a season-long parking pass; dinner at a match; a …