Dua Lipa performed a sold-out show in the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Getty
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 $210m (€180m) last year.
That is according to figures from trade industry journal Pollstar, which show 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, a joint venture between Denis Desmond’s Gaiety Investments and Live Nation.
The 2.56 million tickets sold was down 12pc on the promoter’s best ever ticket sale performance of 2.92 million in 2024.
Hozier and Chappell Roan were just two of the headliners of Electric Picnic last year. The Pollstar figures show the festival recorded a box office of $18.19m (€15.6m) from the music fans who attended at Stradbally in Co Laois. This year’s event is already sold out.
The Pollstar figures separately show Hozier’s gigs generated $44m (€37.7m) at the box office where the singer-songwriter played to 555,848 music fans across 28 gigs in 2025.
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 Oasis generated $405m (€347m) at the box office from their 36-date global tour last year, with an average box office of $11.2m (€9.6m) per gig.
Pollstar estimates that the average price for each ticket at the Oasis gigs was $181 (€155). In September 2024, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) launched an investigation into Ticketmaster Ireland and its handling of the sale of Oasis tickets for their Croke Park gigs.
It followed a review of more than 100 complaints received concerning the dynamic pricing that was in place for the ticket sales.
Earlier this week, MEP Regina Doherty commented: “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.”
Asked to comment, a spokeswoman for the CCPC yesterday said: “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.”