ConcertGrid Research
We record the starting price — the lowest listed ticket — of every concert we track and publish what that history shows — with the sample size, the observation window and the method beside every finding. Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite the figures with a link.
Median starting prices of the concerts on sale by how far away the show is, and how the prices of the same concerts moved while we watched them.
A daily index of the median starting price across upcoming concerts — what the cheapest seat at a typical concert costs — rebased to 100 on the first day of our observation window.
Median and lowest starting prices for every city with enough upcoming concerts to compare.
Using our data? Journalists and researchers may cite ConcertGrid figures with attribution and a link to the relevant study. Methodology →
Our concert catalogue comes from the TicketNetwork affiliate feed: the live events listed on TicketNetwork’s resale marketplace, with the lowest and highest ticket prices it currently shows. It is one marketplace, not the whole ticket market, and the analysis on these pages is ConcertGrid’s own.
We import the feed on a schedule and record a concert’s prices when it first appears and again whenever they change, each with the timestamp of the import. A price that does not move is not written again, so the history is a record of changes rather than a daily snapshot.
That gives two things a single snapshot cannot: a cross-section — what a concert costs today, by city, genre and how far away the date is — and a time series — how the price of one specific concert moves as its date gets closer.
Prices are starting prices — the lowest listed ticket — in US dollars, before fees and taxes, and they are resale marketplace prices, not box office face value. Every study states its sample size and window.