With the Survey, Live DMA presents the first Europe-wide quantitative study on live music venues and clubs. This project not only helps in having a better understanding in the European venues’ legal status, type of activities or number of workforce but also helps our members in collecting their own data at their regional or national level, the same way our members help us collect data for the European level.
Indeed, it is important that this data is made for the live music sector and by live music actors in order to ensure a relevant analysis of the numbers collected.
This article presents the various regional studies that our members have released, often in their own national languages. The studies only focus on the venues, clubs and festivals (economic data, activities, workforce…). Audience research is excluded from the list.
Evaluation of the effects of the pandemic by live music associations in Europe as part of Live DMA At the onset of this new year, live music associations are unanimous: they wish music venues and clubs to open again in adequate conditions and to secure the festival season, as well as for these scenes to… Read more »
The report of the UK live music census was published in February 2018. This report is the result of a nationwide survey combining qualitative interviews at music events and responses of an online form for musicians, venues, promoters and audiences. The UK live music census intends to measure live music’s cultural and economic value in… Read more »
The IFPI, the trade body representing the recording industry worldwide, commissioned a report on the economic impact of music in Europe. This report quantifies the gross value added, employment and tax contributions the music sector made to the economies of the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU27) and the UK in 2018. Live… Read more »