Talking of Music Week, you'll remember that the trade mag is having a revamp next week, yes? As part of that, they will have an expanded live section, in a bid to persuade those working in the live industry that they should be buying what is traditionally the record industry's trade mag too.
As Music Week is all about the charts, that means they'll be running some new live industry charts too, and they announced yesterday that they'll be including data from the previously reported Tixdaq, which monitors the good old secondary ticket market - something those working in the live industry just love to bits.
Confirming the tie up between the ticket sales monitoring site and Music Week, Tixdaq founder Will Muirhead told reporters: "We are delighted Music Week recognises the value of Tixdaq industry standard data to the live entertainment business. These charts are just the beginning of a whole suite of data services we will launch over the coming months".
Music Week main man Paul Williams added: "The advent of Tixdaq's weekly charts is an important step forward for the music industry. While the record business has had weekly charts for more than 50 years, until the arrival of Tixdaq, the live music business has had no agreed benchmark of success. We are delighted to be featuring Tixdaq data across Music Week's various platforms".