Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (Details)

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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (Details) (USD $)
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]    
Total stock-based compensation expense $ 9,497,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense $ 10,018,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
Total unrecognized compensation cost 65,200,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationNonvestedAwardsTotalCompensationCostNotYetRecognized  
Amortization period of unrecognized compensation cost (in years) 2 years 6 months 14 days  
Selling, general and administrative expenses [Member]    
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]    
Total stock-based compensation expense 4,742,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
/ us-gaap_IncomeStatementLocationAxis
= us-gaap_SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpensesMember 		4,920,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
/ us-gaap_IncomeStatementLocationAxis
= us-gaap_SellingGeneralAndAdministrativeExpensesMember
Corporate expenses [Member]    
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]    
Total stock-based compensation expense $ 4,755,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
/ us-gaap_IncomeStatementLocationAxis
= lyv_CorporateExpensesMember 		$ 5,098,000us-gaap_AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
/ us-gaap_IncomeStatementLocationAxis
= lyv_CorporateExpensesMember