Bon Jovi #3 Tour for Year

The question is though, would BJ sell as many tickets as the Stones or Madonna if their ticket prices were equally high...?

I think it's possible. I'm on several venue mailing lists and got e-mail where they slashed the prices of the Rolling Stones tickets and were selling them in packages with T-shirts and whatnot just to get rid of them.

How does that work in the tally? Did those tickets get counted for their face value or for what they really sold for. a quarter of face value?

Also, during the year in question, Bon Jovi stopped touring in July and the tally went through November. Pretty impressive for a bunch of old guys LOL.

Kathleen

you see...there's the reason they don't charge that much. cause it'd reduce the audience by at least 50% if not more....

From the New York Post:

WRINKLY ROCKERS REIGN ON THE CONCERT FRONT
By PETER LAURIA

The Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang" tour took in $437 million alone, making it the highest-grossing tour ever, and the year's top performer. Madonna became the highest grossing female artist ever this year, when her "Confessions" tour pulled in $195 million.

Not unlike past years, the acts atop the concert chart weren't the ones dominating record store sales, as fans were clearly more interested in hearing past hits, than the artists' newer material.

Combined, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Bon Jovi tours grossed $763 million. However, the trio's most recent albums have collectively sold just 3.43 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Thanks to higher ticket prices, overall concert sales swelled to $2.8 billion from a $2 billion a year ago, according to Billboard. Attendance, which fell 4 percent in 2005, staged a comeback this year, rising 13 percent for the 12-month period that ended Nov. 14, as more than 52 million people went to 15,000 shows during that time frame.

For the sixth consecutive year Madison Square Garden ranked as the top-grossing arena in the world, while Giants Stadium in New Jersey was the world's top performer among stadium-size venues.

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***Who else played at Giants Stadium this year?

Can this be true? All three combined have not sold more than 3.43 million copies? I thought that Bon Jovi alone was responsible for about that number.

Kathleen

It's US alone probably.

That article is really stupid....

The concert grosses tallied represent grosses from WORLD TOURS, and their album data from Soundscan only represents North America.

It's pretty dumb to show the contrast between album sales and concert grosses when one figure represents the whole world and one represents North America. Journalists, eh? How can you make a valid argument when you are using two different scales for comparison. Dumb.

Lol, and yeah, to get the full scope of whose tour was the most successful, as someone said, you would have to take into account the venue sizes - arenas vs. stadiums - good call...

Yep, I totally agree, how can you compare what seems to be US only record sales to a worldwide concert gross.

deb

Even with US sales alone, that figure just cannot be right.