Live Nation change their refund plan to include postponed shows awaiting new dates

2,100 employees forced into involuntary leave

Live Nation has furloughed approximately 2,100 of its 10,5000 employees across multiple divisions at the company Billboard has learned.The staff reductions are part of an effort that began in April to reduce costs by $600 million as the publicly traded concert promoters prepares to weather an extended shutdown due to the COVID-19 crisis.This is a developing story...

Live Nation is raising $1.2 billion in a note sale that closes May 20, giving the promoter and ticketing company roughly $3 billion of liquidity going into a near-empty summer concert season. The 6.5% senior secured notes will be used for general corporate purposes and will be due in 2027.The addition of these new notes would bring long-term debt to $4.85 billion and add to interest payments that totaled $157.5 million in 2019.

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Live Nation Entertainment has been hit with a credit rating downgrade from S&P Global Ratings. The research firm on Wednesday reduced the concert promoter's rating to B+, from BB-, with a negative outlook, as it argued a prolonged postponement or cancellation of concerts and other events risked "dramatic revenue declines," which in turn would drive up Live Nation's debt load.

By Jill Goldsmith

With a pandemic hanging over the touring industry, Live Nation's first quarter earnings released Thursday revealed the damage caused since concerts were widely suspended in mid-March: Compared to Q1 2019, concert revenue dropped 24.6% and ticketing revenue fell 15.8%.This year, Live Nation will host virtual concerts, is testing drive-in concerts -- these started popping up in parking lots as early as mid-June -- and will later give superstar artists multiple theater dates rather than a single

Concert promoter Live Nation has said they are planning to resume concerts at "full scale" in 2021, after the spread of coronavirus stopped live shows across the world.

"Our goal is really to be on sale in the third and fourth quarters for 2021 at full scale.”

Due to the global freeze on live music

The gig promoters are trying to find a way for live music to return amid the coronavirus pandemic

By Jill Goldsmith

By Jem Aswad

Live Nation blockbuster $480 million purchase of a controlling interest in Mexican promoter OCESA Entretenimiento has been put on hold because of the COVID-19 crisis, Live Nation chief executive Michael Rapino announced Thursday (May 7) on its first quarter earnings call.

The sudden cancellation of concerts and events in the last few weeks of March meant a 21% decline in revenues for Live Nation and a $172 million loss for the quarter, nearly seven times what the company posted for the same period last year.

By Jem Aswad

Few earnings releases are as anticipated as Live Nation’s first quarter report coming Thursday -- that should provide a valuable snapshot of the live music business during an unprecedented economic slowdown.

By Joe Otterson

By Jem Aswad

Live Nation chief executive Michael Rapino emailed his staff Tuesday detailing plans for issuing refunds to ticket buyers, including news the company was expanding its refund offer to fans who bought tickets for events that have not yet been rescheduled.