{"id":2392277,"date":"2026-04-28T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2392277"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:03:16","slug":"with-tours-booming-the-live-music-industry-may-need-more-roadies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/with-tours-booming-the-live-music-industry-may-need-more-roadies\/","title":{"rendered":"With tours booming, the live music industry may need more roadies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Live music is having a moment. Taylor Swift\u2019s The Eras Tour had 149<\/a> shows. The Eagles had 44<\/a> in their Sphere residency last year. There are 50<\/a> shows planned for Harry Styles\u2019 Together, Together tour this summer. And those are just some of the big ones. <\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs predicts the live music industry to grow 7.2%<\/a> every year between now and 2030, and more live events mean the industry will need a lot more people to run those events.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarketplace\u201d host Kai Ryssdal spoke with journalist Drew Millard about his piece in Bloomberg<\/a> about how the industry plans to train and recruit its next generation of roadies. <\/p>\n

Click the audioplayer above to hear their conversation.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marketplace.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live music is having a moment. Taylor Swift\u2019s The Eras Tour had 149 shows. The Eagles had 44 in their Sphere residency last year. There are 50 shows planned for Harry Styles\u2019 Together, Together tour this summer. And those are just some of the big ones. Goldman Sachs predicts the live music industry to grow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[356001,379078,441541,21800],"class_list":["post-2392277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-bloomberg","tag-concert-tours","tag-live-music-industry","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/With-tours-booming-the-live-music-industry-may-need-more.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392279,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392277\/revisions\/2392279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}