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10 Biggest Live Music Stories of 2024: Live Nation-DOJ, Sphere’s First Year & More


The biggest live music stories of 2024 cover topics including Sphere, Coachella, Live Nation, Billie Eilish, Luis Miguel's touring record and more.

Shortly after closing a$7 billion sale to French luxury company Artémas, long-time CAA head of global touring and partner Rob Light announced that he was being promoted to the agency’s managing director. The agreement is the first Latin partnership of this scope for AEG and serves as an enormous achievement for CMN founder/CEO Henry Cárdenas, whose current slate of artists includes Bad Bunny, Luis Miguel, Marc Anthony and Don Omar, among many others. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino recently told Bloomberg that he tried to talk U2 frontman Bono out of the gig, admitting he was worried the bigger-than-life experience would make audience members nauseous and even throw up on one another.

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