![]() ![]() Imagine Dragons and AJR are on that bill as well. Stateside, The Killers have booked a dozen festival dates, beginning 7/14 at the inaugural Twin Cities Summer Fest at Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins. ODESZA has nine festival dates (and 20 headlining gigs) between 6/10 and 10/21.Īlso on the European festival circuit are Florence + The Machine, with eight dates, The Lumineers, who have 10, Lil Nas X, playing six and Guns N’ Roses, headlining five. All 14 of Mumford & Sons' summer gigs are at festivals, as are Eilish’s 10 summer shows and Del Rey’s six 2023 dates. Kendrick Lamar is slated for seven festivals in Europe, seven in North America and two in Japan. The Foos, the first of whose 17 North American festival performances this year was at Boston Calling over Memorial Day weekend, are dominating lineups along with The 1975, which will also hit 17 festivals around the world before beginning a 32-show North American tour 9/26 in Sacramento. No surprise considering its lineup of headliners-Del Rey, Imagine Dragons, Green Day, Zach Bryan and the act in the lead for most festival performances this year, Foo Fighters. The music event that runs longer than just about any other, the 11-day Quebec City Summer Festival, has sold all of its premium seats. festivals, Glastonbury, has been sold out since April, even with a significant price hike to £335 ($428.10 as of 6/20) for its 6/21-25 dates. The eight-day, 17k-capacity Roskilde Festival in Denmark (6/24-7/1), meanwhile, sold out its Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows in February.Īnd the granddaddy of U.K. Nova Rock Festival, the largest such event in Austria with 55k people per day, sold out early bird tickets in December. Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting sold out its 26th edition, with 103 bands over four days attracting more than 220k visitors France's Hellfest, with a lineup headlined by KISS, Mötley Crüe and Iron Maiden, also burned through all its tickets. The return to festivals was initially felt in the first three months of the year in Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, where Live Nation reported 50% growth in fan count.Įurope, likewise, has come out of the gate strong in the early half of the season. ![]() In the U.K., sold-out signs are being posted for AEG’s July BST Hyde Park summer shows, featuring Del Rey, Bruce Springsteen and P!nk. Now, people are ready to get out and it’s translating to a lot of success.”Ĭoachella drew an average of 125k attendees per day this year, with both weekends sold out. It’s taken some people longer to come back to it. “It was certainly a relief to see that the audience was comfortable coming back to a mass gathering. Same with Stagecoach,” AEG Presents North American Festival chief Melissa Ormond told HITS prior to this year’s festival season. “In 2022, Coachella was celebratory in a way I had never seen before. proper for the first time since 2010, sold out its Saturday show and two-day passes in early June. San Francisco’s Outside Lands has moved all of its three-day passes, and Insomniac/Live Nation’s Hard Summer, which returns to L.A. Lollapalooza’s Chicago edition has already sold out two of its four days, Friday ( Billie Eilish, Karol G) and Sunday ( Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey). And the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival had its largest opening Friday ever, with 460k people passing through the gates over its seven days.Īugust shows are doing well months ahead of time. ![]() ![]() The inaugural Sick New World festival, which kicked off the season in Las Vegas on 5/13 and featured a reformed System of a Down as headliners, sold out its 80k tickets during pre-sales. Download Festival, with Metallica as headliner, sold all of its 90k tickets for the first time in its 20-year history and broke the U.K. The outing's success-attendance averaged 80k per day-is yet another sign that large festivals are not only back but often topping pre-COVID attendance levels. In the early morning hours of 6/15, the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival sold its final four-day pass, less than 12 hours before the first band started playing at the Superfly/ AC Entertainment event, located an hour or so outside Nashville. ![]()
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