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Originally Posted by Old Joysey
Actually, DA in Europe was not in arenas in most countries but in small or medium-sized venues (say 1,000/3,000 people and it wasn't sold-out in many countries.). He did just about the same circuit as Richie touring to support his solo albums... with the same (lack of huge) success.
Solo acts don't attract big crowds as a rule, every record company and tour promoter know that. That's why they prefer to aim at smaller venues that will sell out or close to and keep the option of adding dates later in case there's a big ticket demand. Business is business!
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I went to 7 of the Europe ones and from what I recall they were all decent size shows the ones I saw anyway definitely more than 3000 maybe with the exception of the show in Austria on the ski mountain. I cannot imagine Jon would ever try and sell stadiums unless he was pretty sure of himself.
I heard Richie had to put his own money in to keep his tour going in the 90's but Richie doesn't seem to have any sense at all.