Ticket Sales Dashboard

See the latest trends for your region and artform, based on data from 460 organisations across the culture and entertainment sector

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August ticket sales were 3% higher in 2023 than 2019, a positive trajectory still being fuelled by organisations in the UK and Ireland.

The Spektrix Ticket Sales dashboard is designed to help you benchmark your sales against current sector-wide booking patterns, updated every month to track recovery across the arts industry.

Throughout this dashboard we're looking at the number of tickets sold, not the value of those tickets. That means we're comparing how many tickets, in total, were bought and paid for in 2023, compared to the same month in 2019.

  • August 2023 ticket sales tracked 3% higher than August 2019 levels.
  • The main gains were seen in the UK & Ireland, which continues to see a positive trajectory with a 5% increase in ticket sales in August compared with 2019.
  • These gains are not being experienced in the US & Canada in the same way, where they are still not tracking back to 2019 levels - August saw ticket sales at 3% below the same month in 2019.
  • Ticket sales across all regions for the last 12 months are at 97% of 2019 levels.
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How to read this data

How do ticket sales in 2023 compare to 2019?

How does the number of tickets sold each month compare to pre-pandemic levels - and can we see trends emerging?

Each bar shows the number of tickets sold in 2022-2023 as a percentage of the same month in 2019.
Hover over the chart for more detail.

We are now working with a rolling 12 months of data. We’re continuing to use 2019 data as a benchmark for comparison, both for sales in 2023 and 2022. That allows us to compare recent activity with pre-pandemic levels.




UK and Ireland

In the UK and Ireland, August 2023 sales sit just above 2019 levels, with sales performance 5% higher than August 2019. This is a continuing positive trend, and 6 of the last 12 months have seen ticket sales exceed their equivalent month in 2019. This has led to the UK & Ireland sitting at 98% of 2019 tickets sales performance over the last 12 months, meaning we could see ticket sales back to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year.

US and Canada

Ticket sales continue to be turbulent in the US & Canada, and August 2023 ticket sales were recorded at 97% of August 2019 levels. This is an improvement on the previous month of July, but we are still waiting to see an ongoing positive trend to pre-pandemic levels for this region. Over the last 12 months, the US & Canada have tracked 9% below 2019 ticket sales levels.

In August, how did ticket sales compare across different genres or artforms?

Ticket sales patterns vary for different types of organization within the cultural sector. Last month, were ticket sales for each business type up or down, as a percentage of the same month in 2019?

Each row shows the number of tickets sold in 2023 as a percentage of the same month in 2019. 
Hover over the chart for more detail.

  • Many organisation types outperformed 2019 levels in August.
  • In particular, Community organisations had a very positive month.
  • Producing Venues, Receiving & Presenting Venues, Festivals, and Classical Music Organisations also outperformed August 2019 sales. 
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About the Ticket Sales Dashboard

Where does our data come from?

Spektrix works with over 600 arts and entertainment organizations across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland. Our Ticket Sales dashboard includes real sales data from the vast majority of our users, meaning our figures are based on what we believe to be the most comprehensive dataset of its kind in the cultural sector.

  • We’re comparing 2022/23 to 2019 because of the interruption to ticket sales caused by the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in 2020.
  • Our data is based on the date of transaction, rather than event date. Tickets that were subsequently returned are included in the data, as they’re still representative of customer behavior at the point of booking.
  • We’ve included data from all organizations currently using Spektrix, for which we have data from both 2019 and 2022/23 (447 organizations in total). 
  • Months are all calendar months, and may therefore be impacted by one-off events or days of the week - for example, January 2019 contained four weekends, whereas January 2022 contained five. 
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Presenting the data

All three charts use the same key, which shows negative figures in orange and positive figures in blue. This color contrast has been chosen to be visible to as many viewers as possible, including people with color blindness or other visual impairments. Similarly, blue has been chosen to represent positive numbers because it enables more people to distinguish between different shades or scales.

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