Stellar box office performances by Dua Lipa at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin and a host of performers, including Hozier at the Electric Picnic Festival, last year helped promoters MCD Productions to ticket sales of $210.98m (€181m) in 2025.
That is according to figures from trade industry journal Pollstar which show that the MCD Productions sold 2.56 million tickets in 2025 ranking its box office performance at 14th globally.
MCD Productions is owned by LN Gaiety Holdings Ltd which is a joint venture between Denis Desmond's Gaiety Investments and Live Nation.
The 2.56m tickets sold by MCD Productions was down 12% on the promoter's best ever ticket sale performance of 2.92 million in 2024. In 2024, MCD Productions the 2.56 million tickets sold resulted in a record €238.5m ($245m) in ticket sales.
Live Nation was in 2025 ranked number one globally with ticket sales of $8.36 billion from 76.7 million ticket sales.
Hozier and Chappell Roan were just two of the headliners of Electric Picnic in 2025 and the Pollstar figures show that the Electric Picnic recorded a box office of $18.19m (€15.59m) from the 57,750 music fans who attended at Stradbally in Co Laois.
The 2026 event is already a sell out and the Pollstar figures separately show that Hozier gigs generated $44m (€37.78m) at the box office where the "Too Sweet" singer-songwriter played to 555,848 music fans across 28 gigs in 2025.
The Pollstar figures show that the average box office from Hozier gigs in 2025 was $1.5m.
However, individual box office figures for the most eagerly awaited gigs of 2025, Oasis's two gigs at Croke Park in Dublin in August are not available as the band did not submit figures to Pollstar.
Instead, Pollstar estimates that Oasis generated $405m at the box office from their 36 date global tour in 2025 with an average box office of $11.2m per gig.
Pollstar estimates that the average price for each ticket at Oasis gigs was $181.
In September 2024, the consumer watchdog here - the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) - launched an investigation into Ticketmaster Ireland and its handling of the sale of Oasis tickets following a review of more than 100 complaints received concerning the dynamic pricing that was in place for the ticket sale.
Earlier this week, MEP Regina Doherty complained that "Oasis have completed an entire world tour and we’ve yet to hear a peep from the investigation."
"Fans were promised answers after the Oasis controversy, not a process that drags on endlessly behind closed doors," she said.d
Asked to comment, a spokeswoman for the CCPC would only say: "As the CCPC’s investigation is ongoing, we are unable to give further information at this time. We will provide an update when in a position to do so."
The Pollstar figures also show that Dua Lipa generated a box office of €6.16m from her gig before 51,700 fans at the Aviva Stadium at the end of last June.
The figures also show that the Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey operated 3Olympia in Dublin generated a box office of $12.8m in 2025 on the back of 293,311 tickets sold.
Reporting by Gordon Deegan
