The UK’s live music industry has bounced back from pandemic lows in a big way, according to a new report released Tuesday by the trade group Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment (LIVE).

The report , which analyzed the U.K. concert business in 2024 across 55,000 concerts and festivals, found a striking bounce back from a 2020 low of £0.6 billion ($800 million) in revenue across the industry to £6.7 billion ($8.9 billion) last year, a recovery “so impressive that spend last year was over £2 billion ($2.6 billion) more than in 2019, the last full year before COVID,” the report reads. Citing setlist data from PRS for Music, LIVE estimates there was a gig every 137 seconds in the UK last year; the country’s capital city of London accounted for 28.9% of total activity.

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