Ibiza had its biggest ticketing year on record in 2025, and that is exactly the problem. The island is making more money from fewer people paying more, which is a fine quarterly result and a slow way to lose the crowd that built the place.
How much money are the clubs actually pulling?
Club ticketing on the island hit 160 million euros in 2025, up from 150 million in 2024, according to the IMS Electronic Music Business Report written by MIDiA Research's Mark Mulligan. That number is ticketing alone: it does not count VIP tables, bottle service or hospitality, where the real margins sit. And it is being earned across fewer nights. Average events per venue dropped from 144 in 2023 to 140 in 2025. The model is plain: higher yield, lower volume, fewer but more expensive doors.
What does a night actually cost now?
Entry has roughly doubled in a decade, from around 40 to 60 euros in 2015 to 80 to 150 euros by 2024. At the top, a VIP pass at Hï Ibiza runs 1,000 euros per person, which buys priority access, the VIP areas and four drinks, champagne excluded. Even the floor is high: opening-night entry at Hï listed at 120 euros, while Amnesia Pyramid started at 55 and DC-10's Circoloco at 56. Drinks inside land around 15 to 20 euros. None of this is a secret discount waiting to be found; it is the price of the room.
A scene that doubles its door price in ten years isn't growing its audience, it's selecting one.
Where does the priced-out crowd go?
The squeeze isn't only at the club door. Since July 2024 the island pulled 14,532 tourist beds across 2,831 listings off Airbnb, with Balearic president Marga Prohens declaring Ibiza 100 percent free of unlicensed accommodation. Strip out the cheap beds and double the entry, and the maths stops working for the young, broke raver who is the lifeblood of any scene. That crowd doesn't quit dancing. It moves, to Tulum, to Tbilisi, to Medellín, to wherever a weekend still costs what a weekend used to cost.
