Overlook the royal household, soccer and fish and chips, you may argue that music is among the largest causes worldwide vacationers go to the UK. Now, based on a newly launched report, they could be proper.
Concert events and reveals by fashionable artists reminiscent of Oasis, Beyoncé, Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar helped appeal to a document 24.7 million music vacationers to the UK in 2025, up 4.8% from 23.5 million in 2024, knowledge printed by UK Music revealed.
Of the entire variety of music vacationers final yr, 22.6 million got here from the UK, a rise of three.2% year-on-year from 21.9 million home vacationers in 2024. UK Music knowledge additionally reveals that there will likely be a complete of two.1 million worldwide music vacationers in 2025, a “vital” 26.8% enhance from 1.6 million in 2024.
Tens of millions of vacationers come and spend some huge cash, particularly at festivals and occasions. In 2025, music vacationer spending hit a brand new document of £11.2 billion (€13.1 billion) throughout the UK at main festivals and concert events reminiscent of Glastonbury, Obtain, Studying, Boomtown and Wi-fi. This was an 11.3% enhance from 2024.
Forward of the fallow yr of 2026, Glastonbury welcomes The 1975, Neil Younger, Olivia Rodrigo and Charli XCX to the 2025 Somerset stage. Though it helped promote music tourism exterior of London and the North West, it was “an analogous story in East Anglia” when Ed Sheeran performed a present at Ipswich City’s Portman Highway Stadium.
Oasis Dwell ’25 Tour attracts enormous crowds
Oasis’ long-awaited reunion noticed 17 sold-out concert events throughout the UK. As a part of the worldwide Oasis Dwell ’25 tour, two concert events had been held at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, 5 at Manchester’s Heaton Park, seven at London’s Wembley Stadium and three at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium.
Oasis’ string of gigs, together with headline reveals by Sheeran, Sam Fender, Korean artists Blackpink and Catfish and the Bottlemen, led to a “surge” in income throughout the UK.
The report mentioned music vacationer spending within the North West elevated by 15.6% from £1.2bn (€1.41bn) in 2024 to £1.4bn (€1.64bn) in 2025. In London, music vacationer spending elevated by 27.4% from £2.7bn (€3.17bn) in 2024 to £3.4bn (€3.99bn) final yr.
A separate report by Barclays, printed forward of final yr’s present, predicted that followers attending the Oasis Dwell ’25 reunion tour would spend a complete of £1.06 billion (€1.24 billion).
Round 1.4 million individuals attended the band’s 17 sold-out concert events within the UK, with followers anticipated to spend a median of £766 (€899) on tickets, journey, lodging, clothes and different prices.
