{"id":4575,"date":"2014-08-26T05:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T05:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/australias-live-revenue-hit-record-high-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T05:36:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T05:36:33","slug":"australias-live-revenue-hit-record-high-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/australias-live-revenue-hit-record-high-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s live revenue hit record high in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg\/1280px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>Live entertainment revenue hit AUS $1.479 billion (approx. \u00a3839m) in  2013, with contemporary music events accounting for 42.5% of ticket  sales.<\/p>\n<p>The figures come from Live Performance Australia in its Annual Ticket  Attendance &amp; Revenue Survey report, with the revenue representing  the highest since the survey began.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Overall ticket sales were up 22.7% from AUS $1.205bn to AUS $1.479bn,  with total attendance rising 10.2% to 17.93m. The average ticket price  in the territory was up 7.8% to AUS $92.16 (\u00a351.57).<\/p>\n<p>Major music tours cited as significant contributors to the uplift  include those of Beyonc\u00e9, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, One Direction and  Pink.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive of Live Performance Australia, Evelyn Richardson,  said that the organisation is \u201cmindful that performances by the small to  medium sector, and at regional venues, continue to be underreported in  this survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LPA has therefore been working closely with Australia Council for the  Arts and the Australian Performing Arts Centre Australia (APACA) to  redress this issue in a new supplementary report to be released in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live entertainment revenue hit AUS $1.479 billion (approx. \u00a3839m) in 2013, with contemporary music events&#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-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","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=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}