Enormous boost Coldplay, Beyonce and Harry Styles gigs gave to Britain’s economy last year revealed

COLDPLAY, Beyonce and Harry Styles gave our system plentifulness to sing astir past twelvemonth — helping to boost it by much than £7billion.

The music industry’s monolithic interaction connected the nation’s coffers was hailed yesterday — but experts warned of “challenges” ahead.

Solo artists and bands contributed £7.6billion successful 2023, according to commercialized assemblage UK Music.

Among the biggest money-spinners was Beyonce, with 250,000 fans pouring into Spurs’ football crushed to spot her implicit 5 nights.

There were besides sell-out gigs successful Sunderland, Edinburgh and Cardiff.

More than 300,000 saw Harry Styles’ 4 dates astatine Wembley, with Coldplay, Sir Elton John and Blur among different large unrecorded performers.

Meanwhile, gross from British ­talent playing overseas — including Adele successful Las Vegas — deed a caller precocious of £4.6billion, up 15 per cent connected 2022.

The euphony manufacture employed a grounds 216,000 people, up 3 per cent successful a year.

UK Music main Tom Kiehl said it is “ideally placed to turbo-charge the caller government’s ngo to unafraid the highest sustained maturation successful the G7”.

But helium said determination were besides ­“vulnerabilities”, including interest implicit astir 125 grassroots euphony venues closing past year.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said “the euphony manufacture is simply a existent British occurrence story”, which the Government is committed to gathering on.