Pollstar Survey of Concert Pros Finds Just Over Half Expect Live Music to Be Back at Full Capacity by End of 2021
Chris Willman Music WriterA survey of concert pros conducted by the trade magazine Pollstar finds some interesting splits between optimism and continued wariness as the industry tries to forecast what lies immediately ahead for their battered and still largely shut down business.“It is encouraging that over half of all respondents, 54.7%, believe the industry will return to full capacity in 2021, as compared to 30.6% who say the comeback won’t happen until 2022,” Andy Gensler, the executive editor of Pollstar, wrote in a report summarizing the survey results.Caution is still the buzzword, as only a tiny minority of respondents, 2%, expect that full resumption to happen during the first quarter of ’21.