The Residency Economy
Touring is dead labor. Residency is compounding capital. The artists who understand this are quietly becoming developers.
The road killed a generation of artists for a reason that is finally legible: touring is a business model where the artist is the inventory, the venue takes the margin, and the audience pays for transit, not transcendence.
Residency inverts every variable. The audience moves. The artist stays. The venue becomes a destination. And the destination becomes a balance sheet.
The next great venues will not be booked by promoters. They will be co-developed by the artists who used to be their inventory.
The Vegas residency was the prototype. The next iteration belongs to a class of artist-operators who own the lease, the brand, and the night.
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