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The End of Touring (Unless You’re BTS)

Entertainment Is Broken is a Brittlestar podcast

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BTS is back from military service — and their comeback show in Seoul is expected to draw 260,000 fans.

Yes. A quarter of a million.

Meanwhile, most bands can’t afford gas for the tour van.

In this episode of Entertainment Is Broken, Richard Crouse and Sarah Hanlon dive into the bizarre economics of live music:

  • Why mega-concerts are getting bigger than ever

  • Why the middle of the music industry is disappearing

  • Why touring now costs so much artists sometimes lose money on the road

  • And whether the future of music is stadium spectacles… or livestreams from someone’s living room

The music industry isn’t dead.

But it might be… broken.

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