In 2024, nearly 70,000 paid representations were recorded in France, which is a lot but remains stable compared to 2023. For all these events, it sold 37.9 million admissions, or growth of 2 %. On the other hand, question recipes, 2024 signs a historic year with a record at 1.6 billion euros (excluding taxes) indicates the CNM. This represents a 13 %increase. The fault of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. Without them, the average price of the ticket, which is 45 euros and earned 10 %, would have experienced a much less increase.
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Festivals in turbulence zone
The Chartsinfrance.net site notes that in ten years, the recipes for music and variety shows jumped 117 %. No wonder when we know the increase in the price of tickets. On average 13 euros more than in 2014.
However, the situation is not the same for festivals. If their recipes were already marked in 2023 in France, the trend has accentuated last year. The number of paid events to decrease (minus 5 %) and above all, the number of paid representations: minus 17 %. With an immediate consequence on attendance that increases to 8.6 million spectators, 5 % less than in 2023 … Should we specify that this trend also seems to put the number of festivals that have disappeared and the difficulties encountered by some? We think of Francofolies for whom the 2025 assessment has a bitter taste.
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If the pop and rock concerts (including Metal) remain the most popular events, they are not the most profitable, and it is one of the surprises of the revealed relationship. Or even musicals. It is the humor shows that report the most.
Another even more surprising observation: the spectacle or the tour having generated the most important attendance. Forget the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games (10th), the tour of Mylène Farmer (9th) or that of the Star Academy (5th). Even Taylor Swift and his six French concerts do not get on the podium (7th). The highest step is occupied by the Revue du Moulin Rouge which gathered during its 680 performances of 2024,600,000 spectators! Follow the farewell tour of the French group Shaka Ponk and the opera-rock Starmania. Even if the figures are not precise, recognizes the CNM, there is something to tackle the received ideas.
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