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Investegate announcements from Final Results

A new crop of artists will play Madison Square Garden for the first time this year, including Mt. Joy, Lake Street Dive and Cigarettes After Sex.

Here’s an alphabetical look at the 12 independent New Jersey artists who I thought made the most waves in 2021. Here’s to makin waves with all of them and you in what hopefully will be a much better year than the past couple! 

By: Ryan Borba / Deborah Speer Steve MartinAgency veterans Steve Martin and Andy Somers have left APA, Pollstar has learned, with the exit reportedly amicable.  Martin was APA co-head of worldwide music alongside Bruce Solar and Steve Lassiter, after being named partner in 2015. Martin, a well known music industry figure, sold his own Music Business Agency to William Morris in 1989 and, five years later, left to spearhead the fledgling New York offi...

By: Ryan Borba Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for dcp Dua LipaDua Lipa, pictured at the American Music Awards Nov. 22, is the latest major start to do a high-profile PPV concert. Although the proliferation of the national (and worldwide) tour has led some to question the influence of the music agent for the last couple decades, still the business has thrived with bigger grosses, creative packaging, artist-curated festivals and ever-growing branding di...

Executive Director, IEBA In terms of scale and impact, how would you describe 2020 and the current crisis’ challenges and impact on your business? Money lost in 2020 is gone forever.  This may be true of our peers and colleagues who have been furloughed or laid off.  Many will NOT return to the industry when the industry returns.  Some businesses will fail. Artist development will suffer.   What strategies have you and your businesses implemented and/or are you considering implementing t...

By: Francisco Rendon Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Indonesian Drive-InDrive-in concerts like this one in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, featuring Jikustik, have come the closest to delivering the true live experience, and may help us get there in 2021. After a number of agencies and promoters agreed to cancel all shows for several weeks on March 12 to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, there have been strings of hope that the pandemic might last only...

By: Andy Gensler 2020* will forever have a huge, indelible asterisk beside it. It will serve as a stark reminder that the most challenging year our industry has ever endured was an anomaly, an aberration, a pox on our businesses, one that deviated widely from all norms and can’t end fast enough.  Congratulations to Sir Elton John, whose phenomenal “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” crowned Pollstar’s Year-End Top 100 Worldwide Tours with $87....