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Australian businesses make a strong showing in Billboard Boxscore’s mid-year 2025 report on the live music industry, led by promoters TEG Group and Untitled Group and a raft of venues.
Sydney-based TEG comes in at No. 9 on Billboard’s Top 20 2025 Mid-Year Top Promoters, generating almost US$80 million in total gross, with 1 million attendance across 416 shows.
TEG, the technology, ticketing and live events powerhouse, operates the Laneway festival tour, produced recent shows for Delta Goodrem and Human Nature, is behind Katy Perry’s current tour of Australia, and recently welcomed ex-Woolworths Group boss Brad Banducci as chief executive.
For the first time, Untitled, the Melbourne-based independent live events specialist, appears in the top 20 at No. 12.
For the period, Untitled reported US$51.5 million gross, on 542,000 attendance across 87 shows.
Untitled Group’s success is driven by the performance of its flagship festivals including Beyond the Valley, Pitch Music & Arts, Wildlands, and Ability Fest, plus AO Live, the only music festival at a Grand Slam worldwide, alongside headline tours including Dom Dolla, Lola Young, Kaytranada, Marlon Hoffstadt, Sugababes, and Kesha and more.
Looking ahead, 2025 will mark a major milestone with the 10th anniversary edition of BTV, along with a 12-date national tour with global electronic icons RÜFÜS DU SOL and Dom Dolla’s first stadium show.
Billboard’s box-office data is for the period October 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 2025, a stretch that includes Dom’s four-date tour of Australia, which shifted more than 170,000 tickets – a new high mark for a homegrown DJ.
“To be recognised on a global scale is an incredible achievement for our team and a reflection of the massive summer we’ve delivered,” comments Nicholas Greco, co-founder and managing partner of Untitled. “Breaking into the global Top 20 reinforces the momentum we’ve carried into 2025, and speaks volumes about the live music community here in Australia.”
Predictably, Live Nation rules the leaderboard with US$2.2 billion grossed across 2,058 shows, attended by 19.5 million music fans.
AEG Presents, Frontier Touring’s partner in ANZ, is a distant second with $1.1 billion grossed – half that of LN. AEG Presents, however, produced more shows (5,008) than its main rival, with total attendance of 11.8 million.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds make a surprise appearance in the Top Tours list, dropping in at No. 36 overall with US$26.2 million grossed across 28 shows. Cave’s tour came in at No. 27 on Billboard’s Top Ticket Sales rankings, too, while Dom Dolla isn’t far behind No. 38 with 242,000 attendance across 10 shows.
Leading the way is, of course, Coldplay, whose record setting ‘Music of the Spheres World Tour’ grossed $142.1 million for the tracking period, from 20 stadium concerts in Oceania, the United Arab Emirates, and India.
Chris Martin and co. shifted more than 700,000 on their Australasian lap last year, including three sold-out shows at Eden Park, a record for the Auckland venue.
Several arenas and stadiums Down Under were box-office beasts during the southern summer, including Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, which came in at No. 4 on the global list of Top Venues with a capacity upwards of 15,000.
Qudos Bank Arena (US$80 million gross, 606,000 attendance across 48 shows) was only bested by Las Vegas’ Sphere, New York’s Madison Square Garden and London’s O2 Arena, respectively, and can claim to be the top arena of its size in the southern hemisphere.
Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena appears at No. 16 on that frame (US$40.3 million gross with 365,000 attendance across 31 shows).
In the set for Top Venues with a capacity of between 10,001 and 15,000, Brisbane Entertainment Centre arrives at No. 8 (US$31 million gross, 292,000 attendance, 36 shows), and Perth’s RAC Arena powers to No. 12 (US$16 million gross, 177,000 attendance, 24 shows).
Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion (at No. 19) and Aware Super Theatre (No. 20) appear in the Top Venues tally for rooms with 5,001 to 10,000 capacity.
Australia and New Zealand filled the biggest spaces, too. Marvel Stadium did heavy traffic with US$92 million generated across 13 shows, and total attendance of 724,000 – good enough for No. 2 on the Top Stadiums list behind only Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros.
Sydney’s Accor Stadium nabbed a podium finish, at No. 3 with US$69.3 million, and 583,000 attendance across eight shows.
New Zealand’s Eden Park, the spiritual home of All Blacks rugby, is at No. 7 on the global list (US$29.7 million, 287,000 and 6).
Separately, Marvel Stadium is recognised as one of the Top 10 stadiums worldwide in the Pollstar Mid-Year Top 50 Worldwide Stadium ranking, for shows between November 14th 2024 and May 14th 2025.
Marvel Stadium this year celebrates its 25th anniversary with a slate of events that includes the Wrexham AFC Tour Down Under, Nitro Circus, Lady Gaga, Oasis, Metallica, and Fridayz Live featuring Maria Carey and Pitbull.
See the mid-year 2025 Billboard Boxscore in full here.