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Goldman Sachs: ‘Robust’ live touring and emerging markets fuel $200bn industry forecast

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Despite “macro uncertainty”, Goldman Sachs has raised its growth forecast for the global music industry for the first time in three years, in part due to the “globalisation of the concert ecosystem”…

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