Concerts have been either cancelled or rescheduled left and right this year due to concerns of COVID-19. This leads to a lot of money being lost from not only the actual performers but also the tech, crew, and many other workers. The music industry is worth about $50 billion and live music makes up 50% of it.

A lot of huge tours were supposed to happen this year such as The Stadium Tour with Mötley Crüe, Def Leopard, Poison, and Joan Jett and The Black Hearts. This tour was going to be huge and expected a huge outcome since all the concert venues were reserved at stadiums. Mötley Crüe was coming out of retirement after 5 years and they had gained a legion of new fans because of their biopic The Dirt that was released on Netflix last year. 

This was a bad year for the band Mötley Crüe to come out of retirement due to the pandemic. The tour ended up being rescheduled for next year and lot of people were angry that they didn’t make a statement or update on refunds until months later into the pandemic. Once they made the official announcement with refunds and new tour dates, many people chose to get refunds. This is a common problem that has occurred with many tours recently and it’s making people furious. In the long run though, they ended up filling the stadium back up with new people who are wanting to go and willing to wait the time until then. So, will concerts end up going back to normal in the future or will it change for the worst?