Coldplay's never-ending world tour keeps selling tickets; K-Pop Demon Hunters!; What on earth is "speculative ticketing"?; Bandcamp's $3.5m Friday; and has Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?”
If you want an easy guide to the music biz and how it all works – here we are! In this week's The Price of Music:
Stuart’s Big Number involves Coldplay, a lot of sold-out Wembley stadium gigs, and the band raising money for grass roots venues
Has Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?”
Chinese streaming platforms have a “Super VIP” subscription that costs 5x as much (and 15m people are paying for it…)
Ticketing re-selling platform StubHub: how does it work, how many tickets are being sold by users, and what on earth is “speculative ticketing”?
Bandcamp processes $3.5m of sales on the most…
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