Music Ally

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Live music was worth more in the UK last year than recorded music, according to figures calculated by Will Page, Chief Economist at PRS for Music. He announced his calculations at the International Live Music Conference on Saturday.

Readers of the Music Ally Report may well remember a guest article ‘Is The Future Live?’ in issue 181, in November 2007, when Page posed the question of when the revenues generated by the live music sector would overtake that of recorded.

At ILMC this weekend, Page announced that the “changing of the guard” has now taken place. Scaling up PRS tariff data, and factoring in VAT and a Booking Fee, he’s calculated live to be worth a record £904m in 2008. That overtakes the BPI trade value of the music business of £896m, published in their January newsletter.

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