{"id":4102,"date":"2014-02-25T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/live-nation-entertainment-reports-record-year\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:52:53","slug":"live-nation-entertainment-reports-record-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/live-nation-entertainment-reports-record-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation Entertainment Reports Record Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/62\/Live_Nation_Ent.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"46\" \/><br \/>The company said it is experiencing growth &#8220;across all genres of music, with country music delivering the greatest fan growth, up 2.3 million fans to nearly 7 million, increasing 50 percent from last year.&#8221; Live Nation Entertainment said Monday that it set a record in 2013 for annual revenue, free cash flow and adjusted operating income due to increased attendance at shows in general and the surging popularity of country music.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In the most recent quarter, Live Nation said revenue grew 12 percent to $1.6 billion with an operating loss of $51 million. For the year, revenue rose 11 percent to $6.5 billion and operating income was $140 million compared with an operating loss of $22 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Live Nation said its concert attendance grew 19 percent as its concert division was the lead or exclusive promoter of 21 of the 25 top-grossing tours in North America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We increased both attendance and attendance per show at every type of venue, from theaters and clubs to amphitheaters to arenas and stadiums, showing the consistent strength of our business,&#8221; Live Nation said Monday. &#8220;We also are seeing this growth across all genres of music, with country music delivering the greatest fan growth, up 2.3 million fans to nearly 7 million, increasing 50 percent from last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company said it is experiencing growth &#8220;across all genres of music, with country music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}