COLDPLAY, ADELE, ZACH LEAD WME WINS

Adele, Zach Bryan, Billie Eilish

Amid a year when ex-U.S. client Coldplay crossed the $1b mark at the box office, Adele redefined the concept of a residency, superstars like Zach Bryan, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and Travis Scott did huge business and up-and-comers Benson Boone and Teddy Swims emerged as artist-development successes, WME certainly had a lot to celebrate.

In 2024 the company booked more than 40,000 shows, opened a Miami office to tap further into the Latin boom and saw its clients nominated for 96 Grammys Awards.

Among WME's too-many-to-mention highlights: Coldplay's two-year Music of the Spheres Tour (Josh Javor) surpassed $1b in grosses this summer (and will chug along well into 2025, including 10 nights at London's Wembley Stadium) and Adele's 10-show run at Munich’s Sonderfreifläche Messe (Lucy Dickins), which shifted more than 730k tickets (a record for any such engagement outside of Las Vegas). Adele then crowned the year by concluding her two-year, 100-show Weekends With Adele residency in Las Vegas, which was overseen by Kirk Sommer.

Dua Lipa (repped by WME ex-U.S.) and Rodrigo each sold more than 1m tickets, with the former's Radical Optimism run grossing $145m at on-sale. Travis Scott (repped by James Rubin outside the U.S.) sold more than half a million tickets on the first European leg of the UTOPIA: Circus Maximus Tour alone.

Beyond stadium fixture Zach Bryan (Andrew Colvin and Seith Seigle), who grossed about $4m nightly at each of nearly 90 North American gigs, WME remained strong in country as well, with Luke Bryan, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs, Jason Aldean, Eric Church and Miranda Lambert making the most of their opportunities on stage and screen.

New signee Eilish (Dickins, Sommer) packed arenas in the round in support of her album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, while up-and-comers Boone and Swims played the biggest venues of their nascent careers.

Fellow new signing Linkin Park (Javor ex-U.S., John Marx and Ron Opaleski domestically) re-emerged with sold-out warm-up gigs ahead of extensive worldwide touring in 2025, and Puerto Rican singer Luis Miguel raked in $330m from more than 150 shows of his own.

Other tour feats of note: Hozier's Unreal Unearth Tour sold 1m tickets, including four nights at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium (Sommer), Pearl Jam grossed $13m across two night at Wrigley Field and another $12m at Fenway Park (Don Muller), The Killers broke the attendance record for a six-night run at London's O2 (Sommer) and Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday 2 (Zach Iser) shifted 780k tickets in 2025, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time by a female rapper.

Looking ahead to next year, WME will have Tyler, the Creator (Kevin Shivers) in arenas on the CHROMAKOPIA tour (1m tickets already sold), Bryan has multiple stadium sellouts on his docket and Scott will co-headline Coachella—one of 20 WME clients performing at the desert festival.

Not to be outdone, WME's Music for Visual Media department accounted for half of the Oscar nominations for Best Original Song and half the Golden Globe nominations for Best Score. Now that's what we call crossover!

Josh Javor, Kirk Sommer and Lucy Dickins, Benson Boone

Meera Patel, Andy Nees, Steve Hogan, James Simmons, Javor, Tor Breon, Belle Wade, Brendan Long,
Phoebe Holley and Paul Lomas after WME won Agency of the Year at the U.K. Live Awards.