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http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7385849/live-nation-michael-rapino-upselling-360-deals     Ten years and one merger with Ticketmaster later, Live Nation has grown its concert business to 25,000 shows and 73 million customers annually. At the helm of that now-global live-events empire is president and CEO Michael Rapino, who sat down recently with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk shop -- and explain what he means when he says "we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label."   ON WHY ARTISTS HIT THE ROAD:   "For the first eight years, Wall Street would say to me, ‘Oh my god, what's this summer gonna be like?' -- they wanted to equate it to the movie studios. ‘Where's your Spider-Man?' And I would always say that I have no supply problems this summer. I am not worried that there's not gonna be enough great artists. Why, because 95 percent of the revenue any artist is gonna make is on the road. And artists have bills just like you and me. So artist need to go on the road… It's really good economics."   ABOUT THAT BUSINESS MODEL:   "We're gonna promote 25,000 shows this year. The reason that we've been able to deliver that kind of growth and also be in the artist management business is the artist does believe that we are artist-centric. We're gonna put the artist where ever is best for the artist. So what we do, our biz model is once we have the consolidated content, it's to figure out whatever venue will pay us the best economics to bring that scale. So it could mean the Barclays Center or MSG is better economically for me than Jones Beach. Because they're gonna pay me an ongoing fee and rebate to bring content there. So our job is to figure out where the best economics are to put the content."     ON THE ART OF THE (UP)SALE:   "At the core, we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label. 73 million fans will come to a Live Nation show this year and an average customer goes to two-and-a-half shows a year… So our business, if we can get that customer to three shows a year… or quite honestly, whether 73 million people if I sell them one dollar more a year right, if I can upsell you. If I can get you to buy the VIP package versus the P1, if I can get you to buy the upgraded t-shirt, if I can enhance your experience… my business will do very well if we can just continue to figure out how to superserve 73 million fans, grown 73 million fans by incremental shows, incremental events, and incremental spend."   ON TICKETMASTER’S FIGHT SCALPERS/SECONDARY MARKETS:   "It’s an $8 billion industry… That’s like cocaine money. That's going to attract a lot of good people."   ON 360 DEALS (AND THAT TIME THEY ADDED ALBUM DEALS TO THE MIX):   "It's an insurance policy for the band. That motive to us is the best. We're fully vested, we've got sponsorship, we're trying to bring deals to the table to build the pot. At that point, what happened is, when we started talking to the U2's and the Madonna's about this kind of deal, they'd say ‘geez, to buy my rights to touring for ten years, that's 85 percent of my value… why don't I just throw the record on top of that. It's almost like a cherry on top of the… We didn't wake up thinking we wanna be a record label but we went, ‘I get it,' because that's their leverage, so let's do it. Now, we didn't do it with U2, which was smart — we just stayed to our knitting. Madonna, we ended up taking the cherry."   ON WHY IT DIDN’T WORK:   "We're not in the rights business. Back then we didn't have any secret sauce on how to distribute that record than somebody else. That's why we thus sold Shakira and Madonna back to the label to recoup our record investment."   ON WHETHER THEY’LL DABBLE IN STREAMING:   "I think we'll leave the streaming arms race to the big boys right now. I think Spotify's done a fabulous job. Apple has the scale and muscle to keep getting it better and better and… obviously we're partners with Jay Z and our non-investors but huge supporters of Tidal."     Listen to the full interview here:     http://www.recode.ne...teen-disneyland  

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7385849/live-nation-michael-rapino-upselling-360-deals     Ten years and one merger with Ticketmaster later, Live Nation has grown its concert business to 25,000 shows and 73 million customers annually. At the helm of that now-global live-events empire is president and CEO Michael Rapino, who sat down recently with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk shop -- and explain what he means when he says "we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label."   ON WHY ARTISTS HIT THE ROAD:   "For the first eight years, Wall Street would say to me, ‘Oh my god, what's this summer gonna be like?' -- they wanted to equate it to the movie studios. ‘Where's your Spider-Man?' And I would always say that I have no supply problems this summer. I am not worried that there's not gonna be enough great artists. Why, because 95 percent of the revenue any artist is gonna make is on the road. And artists have bills just like you and me. So artist need to go on the road… It's really good economics."   ABOUT THAT BUSINESS MODEL:   "We're gonna promote 25,000 shows this year. The reason that we've been able to deliver that kind of growth and also be in the artist management business is the artist does believe that we are artist-centric. We're gonna put the artist where ever is best for the artist. So what we do, our biz model is once we have the consolidated content, it's to figure out whatever venue will pay us the best economics to bring that scale. So it could mean the Barclays Center or MSG is better economically for me than Jones Beach. Because they're gonna pay me an ongoing fee and rebate to bring content there. So our job is to figure out where the best economics are to put the content."     ON THE ART OF THE (UP)SALE:   "At the core, we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label. 73 million fans will come to a Live Nation show this year and an average customer goes to two-and-a-half shows a year… So our business, if we can get that customer to three shows a year… or quite honestly, whether 73 million people if I sell them one dollar more a year right, if I can upsell you. If I can get you to buy the VIP package versus the P1, if I can get you to buy the upgraded t-shirt, if I can enhance your experience… my business will do very well if we can just continue to figure out how to superserve 73 million fans, grown 73 million fans by incremental shows, incremental events, and incremental spend."   ON TICKETMASTER’S FIGHT SCALPERS/SECONDARY MARKETS:   "It’s an $8 billion industry… That’s like cocaine money. That's going to attract a lot of good people."   ON 360 DEALS (AND THAT TIME THEY ADDED ALBUM DEALS TO THE MIX):   "It's an insurance policy for the band. That motive to us is the best. We're fully vested, we've got sponsorship, we're trying to bring deals to the table to build the pot. At that point, what happened is, when we started talking to the U2's and the Madonna's about this kind of deal, they'd say ‘geez, to buy my rights to touring for ten years, that's 85 percent of my value… why don't I just throw the record on top of that. It's almost like a cherry on top of the… We didn't wake up thinking we wanna be a record label but we went, ‘I get it,' because that's their leverage, so let's do it. Now, we didn't do it with U2, which was smart — we just stayed to our knitting. Madonna, we ended up taking the cherry."   ON WHY IT DIDN’T WORK:   "We're not in the rights business. Back then we didn't have any secret sauce on how to distribute that record than somebody else. That's why we thus sold Shakira and Madonna back to the label to recoup our record investment."   ON WHETHER THEY’LL DABBLE IN STREAMING:   "I think we'll leave the streaming arms race to the big boys right now. I think Spotify's done a fabulous job. Apple has the scale and muscle to keep getting it better and better and… obviously we're partners with Jay Z and our non-investors but huge supporters of Tidal."     Listen to the full interview here:     http://www.recode.ne...teen-disneyland  

Wow. Depressing read but very enlightening. Explains a lot. So this deal turned out to be a bad decision. Live Nation does not seem to care about their artists or music.  Madonna needs to get out as soon as she can. 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7385849/live-nation-michael-rapino-upselling-360-deals     Ten years and one merger with Ticketmaster later, Live Nation has grown its concert business to 25,000 shows and 73 million customers annually. At the helm of that now-global live-events empire is president and CEO Michael Rapino, who sat down recently with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk shop -- and explain what he means when he says "we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label."   ON WHY ARTISTS HIT THE ROAD:   "For the first eight years, Wall Street would say to me, ‘Oh my god, what's this summer gonna be like?' -- they wanted to equate it to the movie studios. ‘Where's your Spider-Man?' And I would always say that I have no supply problems this summer. I am not worried that there's not gonna be enough great artists. Why, because 95 percent of the revenue any artist is gonna make is on the road. And artists have bills just like you and me. So artist need to go on the road… It's really good economics."   ABOUT THAT BUSINESS MODEL:   "We're gonna promote 25,000 shows this year. The reason that we've been able to deliver that kind of growth and also be in the artist management business is the artist does believe that we are artist-centric. We're gonna put the artist where ever is best for the artist. So what we do, our biz model is once we have the consolidated content, it's to figure out whatever venue will pay us the best economics to bring that scale. So it could mean the Barclays Center or MSG is better economically for me than Jones Beach. Because they're gonna pay me an ongoing fee and rebate to bring content there. So our job is to figure out where the best economics are to put the content."     ON THE ART OF THE (UP)SALE:   "At the core, we’re closer to a travel company than we are to a record label. 73 million fans will come to a Live Nation show this year and an average customer goes to two-and-a-half shows a year… So our business, if we can get that customer to three shows a year… or quite honestly, whether 73 million people if I sell them one dollar more a year right, if I can upsell you. If I can get you to buy the VIP package versus the P1, if I can get you to buy the upgraded t-shirt, if I can enhance your experience… my business will do very well if we can just continue to figure out how to superserve 73 million fans, grown 73 million fans by incremental shows, incremental events, and incremental spend."   ON TICKETMASTER’S FIGHT SCALPERS/SECONDARY MARKETS:   "It’s an $8 billion industry… That’s like cocaine money. That's going to attract a lot of good people."   ON 360 DEALS (AND THAT TIME THEY ADDED ALBUM DEALS TO THE MIX):   "It's an insurance policy for the band. That motive to us is the best. We're fully vested, we've got sponsorship, we're trying to bring deals to the table to build the pot. At that point, what happened is, when we started talking to the U2's and the Madonna's about this kind of deal, they'd say ‘geez, to buy my rights to touring for ten years, that's 85 percent of my value… why don't I just throw the record on top of that. It's almost like a cherry on top of the… We didn't wake up thinking we wanna be a record label but we went, ‘I get it,' because that's their leverage, so let's do it. Now, we didn't do it with U2, which was smart — we just stayed to our knitting. Madonna, we ended up taking the cherry."   ON WHY IT DIDN’T WORK:   "We're not in the rights business. Back then we didn't have any secret sauce on how to distribute that record than somebody else. That's why we thus sold Shakira and Madonna back to the label to recoup our record investment."   ON WHETHER THEY’LL DABBLE IN STREAMING:   "I think we'll leave the streaming arms race to the big boys right now. I think Spotify's done a fabulous job. Apple has the scale and muscle to keep getting it better and better and… obviously we're partners with Jay Z and our non-investors but huge supporters of Tidal."     Listen to the full interview here:     http://www.recode.ne...teen-disneyland  

this is live and they just said 10 mins, its nearly 1am in the UK were i am and my tv says its starting in 10 mins as well, have it recorded too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBJXAHWnzQ

How nice to meet you all here as in the good ol' Rebel Heart Tour days/nights!

this is live and they just said 10 mins, its nearly 1am in the UK were i am and my tv says its starting in 10 mins as well, have it recorded too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBJXAHWnzQ

show will start in 10 mins

show will start in 10 mins

I understand the religious connotations with ROL but she did say for DWT specifically she wanted to focus on the newer material as she had not toured since 93 and both ROL and Music restored respect for her recording career 

http://www.spidercam.tv/madonna-concert-sydney/
Madonna in Sydney
What a fantastic show in Sydney: spidercam® covered the spectacular Madonna concert of the “Rebel Heart Tour†in Sydney at the Allphones Arena.
 
Samples of what the spidercam can do


 

MDNA had shitty sound mixing but the vocals werent unrealistic like with S&S. Let's hope the film is good, I look forward to it but I'm gonna wait and see. The MDNA film was whack.  :1f614:

Picture this in HQ, some smart editing, etc
 

Picture this in HQ, some smart editing, etc
 

I honestly don't like the idea of Like a Prayer making it onto the tracklist ONE MORE TIME 

Picture this in HQ, some smart editing, etc
 

The U2 tour DVD is out next month - including as a lavish super deluxe edition blu ray with extra live footage. I wonder (with them sharing same management) if we could dream of getting something for RHT like it...
 
http://www.superdelu...on/#more-122925
 
Imagine an incredible book with photos from the show, the show itself + bonus songs, a documentary, Tears of a Clown highlights plus the 2 disc live album... Could be amazing if they really put in the effort. I would also really love it if the live album was a different show to the one used on the DVD. Like say an early North American show featuring Who's That Girl and Ghosttown. Lots of other artists do that type of thing.

The U2 tour DVD is out next month - including as a lavish super deluxe edition blu ray with extra live footage. I wonder (with them sharing same management) if we could dream of getting something for RHT like it...
 
http://www.superdelu...on/#more-122925
 
Imagine an incredible book with photos from the show, the show itself + bonus songs, a documentary, Tears of a Clown highlights plus the 2 disc live album... Could be amazing if they really put in the effort. I would also really love it if the live album was a different show to the one used on the DVD. Like say an early North American show featuring Who's That Girl and Ghosttown. Lots of other artists do that type of thing.

For me it was the Glasgow show of Rebel Heart. Will never forget holiday with the lights up, no speakers and the pink Santa Hat. Made it extra special, and worth the wait.

snapchat exclusive

She did a great job with the Bowie tribute, so hopefully this will be just as good. Dying to know which song she'll do.

Don't Reign on my Parade! ☂ï¸. This is not a Love Song !! 5min 
 
http://websta.me/p/1248028692896565098_181306552

it's done by luke lann, his watermark is on the photo and he is in the caption, imo his work is miles better than Aldo Diaz'

i made a cover, i took inspiration from S&S 

it's done by luke lann, his watermark is on the photo and he is in the caption, imo his work is miles better than Aldo Diaz'