Concert and music event attendance in Latvia down 23.5% in a year
Data from the copyright agency AKKA/LAA show that attendance at concerts and other music events in the first nine months of 2026 was 23.5% lower than a year earlier.

Attendance at concerts and other music events in Latvia has fallen. This follows from data by the copyright protection agency AKKA/LAA for the first nine months of 2026, compared with the same period of 2025.
Attendance figures
This year AKKA/LAA recorded 999,638 visits. In the same period of 2025 it registered 1,307,004. The gap is 307,366 visits, or 23.5%.
The headline of the original article says ticket prices have reached a critical level, but the excerpt provides no agency data on prices or other reasons for the decline.
AKKA/LAA is an agency that handles copyright protection in music and collects data on events.

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