The San Francisco-based independent promoter made headlines in June when it produced a surprise show by Skrillex and Fred again.. at the city’s Civic Center Plaza. The show, which was months in the making and drew 25,000 attendees, was touted as a win for San Francisco’s revitalization, with the city’s mayor, London Breed, even hosting a viewing party from her office balcony. Another Planet also produced Golden Gate Park’s first-ever after-dark stand-alone concert in August, presenting Deftones and System of a Down and drawing 50,000 fans; the prior weekend, the company also co-produced the 16th edition of the Outside Lands festival — led by The Killers, Sabrina Carpenter, Sturgill Simpson and Post Malone — in the park. Elsewhere, Another Planet recently announced that it will open a 2,150-capacity venue, Channel 24, in Sacramento, Calif. — one of California’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas — in 2025. —Katie Bain

Indie Latin touring powerhouse Cárdenas Marketing Network ended 2023 at No. 4 on Billboard Boxscore’s year-end Top Promoters chart with a gross of $280.9 million and 2.7 million tickets sold — an extraordinary showing, particularly for an independent promoter focused largely on one genre, Latin music.

This year, CMN has produced successful tours by Aventura, Don Omar and Chayanne. But its biggest recent accomplishment has been promoting Mexican crooner Luis Miguel’s 2023-24 tour, which in September became the highest-grossing ever among Latin acts, according to Boxscore, grossing $342.2 million and selling 2.4 million tickets in its first 158 shows, through Oct. 1 — more than Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour ($314.1 million, which CMN promoted with Live Nation) and Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito tour ($313.3 million). Currently playing a Mexican leg, Miguel’s tour (which CMN co-promoted with Fenix Entertainment) will wrap Nov. 30.

In March, CMN and AEG Presents announced a partnership under which Cárdenas will continue to oversee and run CMN as he always has, in addition to other Latin business at AEG. —Leila Cobo

Ye and Ty Dolla $ign delivered their first live performance as ¥$ — and made their respective debuts as Rolling Loud headliners — on an extra fourth night of Rolling Loud California in March. With a bill also led by Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Future & Metro Boomin, the event marked the second time Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif., hosted Rolling Loud’s California edition. (It will return to the site in 2025.) The premier hip-hop festival also kept globally expanding in 2023, launching Thai, German and Dutch events with lineups that featured both global and local talent; this year, Rolling Loud expanded its European footprint to Austria for the first time. And in December, Rolling Loud will celebrate its 10th anniversary at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. — the market where it began in 2015 — with festival mainstays Future, Travis Scott and Playboi Carti as headliners. —Heran Mamo

Following CAA’s massive year with client Beyoncé in 2023, the agency’s roster maintained its success on the Billboard Boxscore charts in 2024 with acts including Bruce Springsteen, Janet Jackson, Tim McGraw, Green Day, blink-182 and Journey making regular appearances. In August, Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out their Unlimited Love tour, which across 86 shows sold more than 3.4 million tickets and grossed $393.4 million, making it Boxscore’s third-best-selling rock trek this decade. Charli XCX and Troye Sivan launched their joint Sweat arena tour in September, which in its early weeks grossed $11.6 million and sold 123,000 tickets across its first nine dates; around the tour’s launch, CAA told Billboard it was already 97% sold out. Also in September, CAA oversaw the kickoff of chart-topper Sabrina Carpenter’s first arena trek, the Short n’ Sweet tour, which is scheduled to run through March 2025.—Taylor Mims

Independent Artist Group has grown substantially since the agency formed from the merger of AGI and APA in June 2023. The music-focused talent agency’s success in the last year has been driven by longtime A-list AGI clients including Billy Joel, who wrapped his 10-year residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden — which grossed $266.7 million with 1.9 million tickets sold over 104 shows — in July; The Piano Man continued to tour stadiums this summer, co-headlining with performers including Stevie Nicks, Sting and Rod Stewart. Other successful standouts for IAG have included Limp Bizkit, The Smashing Pumpkins and Cage the Elephant, which all played major venues this summer. And Metallica — which toured stadiums across North America and Europe with its M72 World Tour, a trek largely comprising double plays in markets without setlist repeats between shows, grossing $298.9 million through Sept. 29 — led another strong year for IAG’s hard rock acts, which also included successful runs for Ghost, Sleep Token and Falling in Reverse. Meanwhile, the agency’s R&B business keeps growing thanks to artists like Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo and Keyshia Cole. —Dave Brooks

In September 2023, Dolan oversaw the opening of Sphere, the state-of-the-art, 20,000-capacity venue on the Las Vegas Strip that he has promised will revolutionize live entertainment. And with $433.4 million grossed and 1.3 million tickets sold through its first year and change in operation, the facility immediately proved itself as a financial juggernaut — despite only hosting four musical artists. So far, Sphere has relied on residencies, opening with a 40-date U2 engagement ($244.5 million grossed) and following that with four Phish concerts ($13.4 million) and a 30-show Dead & Company run ($131.8 million); the venue is currently hosting the Eagles — $23.2 million grossed through their first four shows — and will welcome dance artist Anyma for eight concerts around New Year’s. Plans for a second Sphere, in Abu Dhabi, were announced in October. Meanwhile, the MSG portfolio has remained robust. At midyear, the company’s namesake New York venue ranked second — to Sphere — on Boxscore’s Top Venues (15,001-plus capacity) chart with $155.5 million grossed between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. Similarly, over that period, Radio City Music Hall led the Top Venues (5,001-10,000 capacity) chart ($130.5 million grossed), and the Beacon Theatre and Chicago Theatre ranked at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, on the Top Venues (2,501-5,000 capacity) chart. —Eric Renner Brown

Despite the myriad challenges Australian concert promoters face, Frontier Touring continues to impress. Led by Brant, Frontier produced Taylor Swift’s Aussie dates for The Eras Tour, which arrived on the continent in February for seven stadium shows, along with fall 2023 stadium runs for Paul McCartney and Foo Fighters. The promoter has also been instrumental in increasing country music’s touring footprint Down Under, promoting major names such as Morgan Wallen, The Chicks, Lainey Wilson and Luke Combs — the lattermost is already slated to return in early 2025. A division of Mushroom Group, which struck a joint venture with AEG Presents in 2019, Frontier had a full and eclectic 2024 slate that included treks by global artists from The Chemical Brothers to J Balvin to Laufey, as well as local acts like The Teskey Brothers, G Flip and comedian Jim Jefferies. —Lars Brandle