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43-813: The event was produced in collaboration with companies such as Live Nation Entertainment , The Lede Company, and Roc Nation , and also by individuals such as Michele Anthony of the Universal Music Group , Declan Kelly of Teneo , Scooter Braun (with his company SB Projects ), Adam Leber (on behalf of Maverick ), and Derrick Johnson (on behalf of the NAACP ). The summit, titled Global Goal: Unite for Our Future—The Summit , featured panel discussions and interviews with world leaders, corporations and philanthropists as they announce new commitments to help develop equitable distribution of COVID-19 tests , treatments and vaccines, as well as rebuild communities devastated by

86-659: A Catholic-Italian family and earned a bachelor of business administration degree from Lakehead University in 1989. While attending Lakehead, Rapino promoted bands at local bars and signed his first artist, Jeff Healey. While at Lakehead, Rapino landed a job as a beer rep for Labatt Breweries and started promoting bands at local bars, arranging a weekly ad in The Argus called "The Blue Zone" that featured live music events happening in Thunder Bay that upcoming weekend. After graduation, he moved to Toronto and continued his career as

129-478: A Gucci bag" stating that the average consumer could afford to buy such a luxury “'This is a business where we can charge a bit more,' Rapino continued. 'I’m not saying excessively, but it’s a great two-hour performance of a lifetime, that happens once every three, four years in that market. You don’t have to underprice yourself — low to middle income [people] will make their way to that arena for that special night.'” In 2022, Rapino's total compensation from Live Nation

172-403: A concert incident. In June 2013, Live Nation was charged with violating Ontario health and safety laws following a 2012 stage collapse at a Radiohead concert that killed one crew member. A 2019 inquest returned a verdict of accidental death . A British inquest later that year found that inadequate technical advice and construction techniques had caused the death. On October 1, 2017,

215-884: A controlling interest in BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival, Salt Lake City-based concert promoter United Concerts, and CT Touring. In 2021, Live Nation acquired a majority stake in streaming entertainment company Veeps. In 2013, the company acquired the New Orleans Voodoo Music + Arts Experience . Live Nation later acquired C3 Presents in Austin, Texas (2014), Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee (2015), Knoxville-based AC Entertainment (2016), Red Mountain Entertainment (2018), and Emporium Presents. In October 2019, Live Nation acquired

258-675: A controlling interest in Israeli promoter Blue Stone Entertainment and the United Kingdom 's Cuffe & Taylor. In May 2018, Live Nation Entertainment also acquired a majority stake in Brazil 's Rock in Rio festival, including from previous stakeholder SFX Entertainment , which was involved in a failed attempt at a U.S. version of the event in Las Vegas , with its founder Roberto Medina continuing to manage

301-401: A live entertainment ticket seller. Rapino was named CEO of the new parent company, Live Nation Entertainment. Prior to the merger's approval by the U.S. Justice Department, Rapino and then-Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff testified in front of a Senate antitrust panel. They argued that the merger was necessary to reduce inefficiencies and help the music industry, which was struggling financially at

344-1259: A majority stake in David Grutman 's Groot Hospitality, which includes several nightclubs and restaurants in the Miami metropolitan area , including the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel's LIV nightclub. In 2018, the company acquired majority stakes in Wisconsin -based Frank Productions. In 2012, the company announced a partnership with Creativeman Productions, based in Tokyo , Japan. In August 2015, Live Nation announced it would form Live Nation Germany, in partnership with German promoter Marek Lieberberg . Live Nation Germany would also have oversight over Live Nation events in Austria and Switzerland . In February 2016, Live Nation acquired Canada's largest independent concert promoter, Union Events. The following month in March 2016, Live Nation acquired Big Concerts International, South Africa's leading concert promoter. In 2017, Live Nation purchased

387-494: A sales representative for Labatt. He remained at the company for 10 years in different marketing and entertainment roles. In the late 1990s Rapino founded Core Audience Entertainment, a concert promotion company that operated in Canada . Core Audience Entertainment was acquired by SFX Entertainment in 1999, which was in turn acquired by Clear Channel Communications in 2000. Rapino held several roles at Clear Channel Entertainment. He

430-455: A unique setting. The special raised $ 6.9 billion from 41 countries towards a COVID-19 vaccine . Live Nation Entertainment Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is an American multinational entertainment company that was founded in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster . It promotes, operates and manages ticket sales for live entertainment internationally. It also owns and operates entertainment venues and manages

473-494: Is included within its concerts division and also includes Front Line Management and Roc Nation . Live Nation Entertainment owns and operates hundreds of venues globally. The company sells tickets to live events through Ticketmaster . The company has faced various lawsuits alleging ticket price fixing , hidden fees and anti-competitive practices . In May 2022, Representative for New Jersey's 9th congressional district Bill Pascrell stated that he had issued letters to

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516-660: The Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice calling for Live Nation to be unwound and broken up, citing its safety record and other factors. These calls were repeated in November 2022 after the Taylor Swift ( The Eras Tour ) Ticketmaster controversy . On August 2, 2023, Dynamic Ticket Systems, LLC. sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation for patent infringement. Destiny's Child manager Mathew Knowles unsuccessfully sued Live Nation in 2011, asserting that

559-627: The Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island . In 2021, Live Nation announced a joint venture with Duke Concept, a concert promoter specialising in African artists, in which Duke Concept handles production and logistics with Live Nation providing support and a network of venues, for touring Afrobeat artists. In 2013, Live Nation announced a joint venture with Insomniac Events , a promoter focused on electronic dance music . The company continued to invest in music festivals and promoters in 2017, purchasing

602-642: The New York City -based parent company of the Governors Ball Music Festival . In 2017, Live Nation announced New York City-based promotion company Mercury East in partnership with Michael Swier, a founder of The Bowery Presents , since acquired by AEG . The deal brought former "indie" clubs Mercury Lounge and Bowery Ballroom under the Live Nation umbrella, along with other Live Nation-owned venues including Irving Plaza , Gramercy Theatre , and

645-781: The Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured. It is the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The shooter fired at attendees from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay . The victims settled for $ 800 million and received their settlements four years after the shooting. In November 2021, a crowd crushing incident occurred at Astroworld Festival —a Live Nation-promoted concert in Houston organized and headlined by rapper Travis Scott —which resulted in 10 fatalities and nearly 5,000 injuries. Live Nation, Scott, and other parties involved have been named in over 387 lawsuits related to

688-539: The U.S. Department of Justice announced it was suing Live Nation Entertainment over what it alleges are anti-competitive practices. The DOJ was joined in the lawsuit by 29 states and the District of Columbia. Live Nation has been linked to at least 200 deaths and 750 injuries at its events in seven countries since 2006. From 2016 to 2019, they had also been cited for at least ten OSHA violations, fined for several more serious incidents, and sued civilly at least once for

731-453: The CEO and president of Live Nation Entertainment , Inc, which was formed in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster . In the late 1990s, Rapino co-founded Core Audience Entertainment, a concert promoting company, and later held several roles at Clear Channel Entertainment. He was named CEO of Live Nation in 2005.   Michael Rapino was born in Thunder Bay , Ontario , to

774-490: The Justice Department and a coalition of states sued to break up Live Nation over antitrust violations. In 2009, Live Nation and Ticketmaster , a concert promotion firm and ticketing company, reached an agreement to merge. The new company received regulatory approval and was named Live Nation Entertainment. Michael Rapino , then CEO of Live Nation, became the new company's CEO, while Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff

817-454: The ability for class action status to be certified. Wu found in August 2023 that Live Nation's rule changes to potentially be "fundamentally unfair", and that New Era had "unchecked power" to group cases together as part of the bellwether arbitration process, and that New Era's limits could not reasonably allow plaintiffs to prove their case. Furthermore, Wu found that Live Nation offerings were often

860-404: The arbitration rules in order to gain “outsized settlement leverage” with Live Nation, citing the large fees that would have been charged to Live Nation if JAMS were to stay as arbitrator. Ultimately, federal judge George H. Wu , who was overseeing the proposed class action, ruled that the changing of arbitrators unilaterally made the entire arbitration agreement unconscionable, and kept in place

903-421: The careers of music artists. The company has faced widespread criticism over its central role in the consolidation of the live events industry, allegations that it proactively engages in anti-competitive practices , poor handling of the ticket sale process for highly popular events, and injuries and deaths that have occurred at many of its events. As of early 2023, Live Nation's annual shareholders report says

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946-423: The company changed its arbitration provider and rules from JAMS to a startup, New Era ADR, who had rules and procedures much friendlier to Live Nation. In Skot Heckman et al v. Live Nation , an antitrust case based on Live Nation's inflated ticket prices, the initial filings described New Era's rules and procedures as abusive and " Kafkaesque ", and Live Nation's switch from JAMS to New Era as unfair since they made

989-431: The company had spread false information about his business dealings with Beyoncé . In May 2024, the company confirmed rumours of a 1.3 TB data leak, at subsidiary Ticketmaster, whose potential impact may extend to over 500 million of their customers, making it one of the world's biggest digital security breaches. The leak was attributed to the malicious efforts of ShinyHunters , a hacker group who allegedly targeted

1032-411: The company has controlling interests in 338 venues globally and believes itself to be "the largest live entertainment company in the world," "the largest producer of live music concerts in the world," "the world’s leading live entertainment ticketing sales and marketing company," and "one of" the world's biggest artist management companies and music advertising networks for corporate brands. In May 2024,

1075-431: The company's Snowflake (cloud-based) infrastructure. The incident led to a class action lawsuit. In August of 2024, Irelands's consumer watchdog ruled out an investigation into ticket pricing "after some tickets jumped in price by over 400 per cent on Ticketmaster within minutes" and failures of their website during sales of upcoming concerts for the band Oasis to be performed in August of 2025. On May 23, 2024,

1118-501: The decision to switch arbitration providers unilaterally and without sufficient notice. A prior filing also alleged that Live Nation had a hand in writing New Era's rules. Live Nation's switch to New Era and its rules were primarily based on its friendlier terms to Live Nation and its requirement that in instances where multiple related cases were filed into a "bellwether" arbitration system, where three cases would be decided in an expedited fashion and if settlements could not be reached after

1161-883: The festival's operations, and providing consulting to Live Nation. In April 2020, it was disclosed that Saudi Arabia 's Public Investment Fund (PIF) recently acquired a 5.7% stake in Live Nation, as of April 28, 2020, the investment was valued at just shy of $ 500 million. The transaction, performed on the open market, made the PIF Live Nation's third-largest shareholder. On April 25, 2022, Live Nation acquired Philippines -based promoter Music Management International (MMI) to create its local branch. Live Nation Entertainment's business segments are concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising. The company promotes and operates live music events and manages artists under its concerts division Live Nation Concerts . Live Nation Entertainment's artist management arm, called Artist Nation,

1204-662: The incident, which in January 2022 were combined down into a single case. In December 2021, the United States Congress House Oversight Committee announced a bipartisan investigation into Live Nation's role in the incident. In February 2022, the family of Drakeo the Ruler filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Live Nation in the Los Angeles County Superior Court , after the rapper

1247-451: The interests of all of the other claimants, current and future, whom would be bound by rulings from the bellwether proceedings. Live Nation counter argued that New Era's rules were valid and that a simple rule change should not prohibit the arbitration clause from being enforced, and that the bellwether procedures should be used in order so that claims get decided quickly; Live Nation's attorneys further alleged that plaintiffs only sued over

1290-461: The only places in certain regions to find events, and that patrons were effectively forced into either accepting Live Nation's terms or forgoing attending live events altogether. On appeal to the Ninth Circuit , the court concurred with Wu, with judges calling New Era's rules "cockamamie" and "just nuts". Michael Rapino Michael Rapino (born 1965) is a Canadian-American businessman and

1333-427: The pandemic. It will be produced by Michael Dempsey and hosted by journalists Katie Couric , Mallika Kapur , Morgan Radford , Isha Sesay , and Keir Simmons . The concert, titled Global Goal: Unite for Our Future—The Concert , was hosted by actor Dwayne Johnson . It was a worldwide music and entertainment special claiming to celebrate the commitments made due to the actions Global Citizens have taken. The event

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1376-776: The software, replace it with something else, or partner with another ticketing company. Additionally, Live Nation Entertainment was placed under a 10-year court order prohibiting it from retaliating against venues that choose to accept competing ticket contracts. In 2017, Live Nation Entertainment reported revenue of $ 10.3 billion. In April 2018, the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation following allegations by AEG that Live Nation pressured them into using Ticketmaster and intentionally avoided booking acts for AEG venues. Live Nation stated that decisions in selecting venues were not punitive, and were instead based on size and management. In 2020, Live Nation

1419-434: The suit to continue, ruling that "the fact that defendants knew security would be needed for the event, supports the finding that the performing artists’ safety was a concern for defendants and foreseeable to defendants." An antitrust class action lawsuit filed by four customers of Ticketmaster in 2023 alleged that two years earlier, when Live Nation was about to be faced with large amounts of demands for arbitration, that

1462-487: The three cases were decided, that the result of the three cases would apply to the rest of the cases automatically. New Era's rules further included limiting filings to ten pages, briefs to five pages, prohibitions on Discovery , and a maximum of 10 documents as evidence, which the plaintiffs described as “absurd” and which would severely hinder the probability impossible for bellwether claimants to meet antitrust pleading standards in their individual cases – let alone to protect

1505-451: The time. Rapino has led the company in acquiring several festivals and companies, including House of Blues Entertainment in 2006, Bonnaroo Festival in 2015, and Blue Note Entertainment in 2017. Rapino earned $ 70.6 million in 2017 and was reported to have one of the highest discrepancies in salary between CEO and his employees who earned an average of $ 24,000. Also in 2017, he extended his contract with Live Nation through 2022. Rapino

1548-477: Was $ 139 million, making him the fifth highest paid CEO in the US that year. In 2023, Rapino's total compensation was $ 23.4 million, or 831 times the median employee pay at Live Nation for that year. Rapino began producing films in 2015. In 2018, he was an executive producer on the HBO documentary “Believer,” and “ A Star is Born ”. Rapino met his wife, American model and actress Jolene Blalock , when he cast her in

1591-425: Was a vocal opponent of the merger at the time. On January 25, 2010, the U.S. Justice Department approved the merger pending certain conditions. Ticketmaster had to sell ownership of its self-ticketing company, Paciolan , and license its software to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which would allow it to compete "head-to-head" with Ticketmaster for business. AEG was given the option after five years to buy

1634-529: Was appointed to the SiriusXM Radio board of directors in January 2018. Also in 2018, he was listed as #1 on the Billboard Power 100 list of influential people in the music industry. Rapino, in response to complaints about ticket prices, and a call for greater regulation and control and ticket prices from The Cure frontman Robert Smith , Rapino argued that ticket prices should be like "as they're buying

1677-577: Was broadcast in the United States on NBC , MSNBC , Bloomberg Television , iHeartRadio , Sirius XM , and InsightTV. The special was also available on several digital platforms worldwide such as Apple Music , Apple TV , Beats 1 , Deezer , Facebook , Tidal , Twitch , Twitter , Yahoo! , and YouTube . It will also be streamed live on the Facebook pages of Brut , LADbible , and Vogue Paris . The producers aimed for each musical performance to have

1720-526: Was hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic , with essentially all concerts and sporting events around the world on hold. The company has been sued as it has been reluctant to offer full refunds to customers, though it has since amended its refund rules to address those complaints. On February 25, 2021, Live Nation released its full-year 2020 financial results, of which the company saw revenues fall by 84%. In 2016, Live Nation acquired Founders Entertainment,

1763-503: Was killed in a homicide that occurred backstage at the Once Upon a Time in LA music festival at BMO Stadium . The suit claimed that Live Nation had negligently failed to employ proper and effective security measures at the event. Live Nation sought a motion to dismiss the suit, arguing that the incident was rare and "unforeseen". In January 2023, judge Yolanda Orozc rejected the motion and allowed

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1806-480: Was later named CEO of Live Nation when it was spun off from Clear Channel in 2005. As the CEO of Live Nation, Rapino initially focused on expanding the business outside of tour management, including artists’ recording and marketing. Between 2007 and 2010, Rapino announced deals with artists such as Madonna , U2 , and Jay-Z . In 2016, Rapino announced a deal between Lady Gaga and Live Nation's management division. In 2010, Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster ,

1849-493: Was named executive chairman. The merger was approved first in Norway and Turkey in 2009. The United Kingdom's Competition Commission provisionally ruled against the merger, but reversed its decision on December 22, 2009. The merger was opposed in the U.S. by some regulators, artists, fans, and competing firms, who argued it would reduce competition in the industry and increase ticket costs. Rock musician Bruce Springsteen

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