Billboard Live Music Summit & Awards 2025 Date Announced

On Wednesday (July 23), Billboard announced the return of the 2025 Billboard Live Music Summit and Awards, taking place Monday, Nov. 3, at 1 Hotel West Hollywood.

Billboard will bring together the live music industry’s biggest names, emerging talent and key innovators for a day of insight and connection, followed by the Billboard Live Music Awards. Both the summit and awards will be programmed by Billboard senior editor Eric Renner Brown.

This year’s event is sponsored by VENU, AEG Presents, Live Nation, Allegiant Stadium, AXS, Moody Center and Tacoma Dome.

Additional information on programming, honorees and ticketing will be shared in the coming weeks. For more information on this year’s Billboard Live Music Summit and Awards, visit BillboardLiveMusicSummit.com.

Last fall, the Billboard Live Music Summit returned after a four-year hiatus, taking over the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 15. The day was capped by a Superstar Q&A with Billboard cover star Olivia Rodrigo, who was crowned Touring Artist of the Year for her Guts World Tour, which sold over 1.4 million tickets and brought in $184.6 million – making it one of the biggest pop tours of the decade. In her conversation, she spoke about how she made her second album GUTS with a live show in mind, saying she knew she wanted to deliver rock-inflected songs prime for screaming along to. Because of that, a favorite of hers to perform on the tour has been “All-American Bitch,” which famously includes a mid-song howl that Rodrigo described as “cathartic.”

Other 2024 Billboard Live Music Summit highlights included: Inside the Rise of John Summit, a discussion with the fast-rising DJ and his manager, Holt Harmon; a conversation between Live Nation’s Arthur Fogel and Lady Gaga’s manager Bobby Campbell titled Inside Global Touring Today; and The Power Players conversation with Executive of the Year Louis Messina.