Bon Jovi's attendance figures for Europe

How much do these differ from the venue capacity and the attendance at the gigs??

I know it's common practice o close out sections of an arena or stadium or manipulate the figures somewhat but I just wanted to know if these attendance figures for any of these shows differ from the capacity of the venue.

2 nights at milton keys would be more than 85,000 wouln't it??


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Milton Keynes National Bowl
Milton Keynes, England
June 10-11, 2006
$6,489,043
85,112 (85,112)

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Croke Park
Dublin, Ireland
May 20, 2006
$6,414,434
81,327 (81,327)

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Olympiastadion
Munich, Germany
May 28, 2006
$4,622,221
71,467 (71,467)

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City of Manchester Stadium
Manchester, England
June 4, 2006
$3,744,610
58,698 (58,69

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Cannstatter Wasen
Stuttgart, Germany
May 27, 2006
$3,654,201
63,020 (63,020)

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Stade de Suisse
Bern, Switzerland
May 31, 2006
$3,354,198
38,762 (38,762)

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LTU Arena
Dusseldorf, Germany
May 13, 2006
$3,325,809
47,862 (47,862)

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Hampden Park
Glasgow, Scotland
June 3, 2006
$2,853,220
42,488 (42,48

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Goffertpark
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
May 25, 2006
$2,594,671
39,815 (39,815)

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St. Mary's Stadium
Southampton, England
June 9, 2006
$2,365,643
34,783 (34,783)

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Ricoh Arena
Coventry, England
June 7, 2006
$2,300,799
36,293 (36,293)

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Gugl Stadion
Linz, Austria
May 15, 2006
$2,063,255
32,002 (32,002)

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Olympiaworld
Innsbruck, Austria
May 30, 2006
$1,734,771
25,660 (25,660)

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Hessentags-Arena
Hessisch Lichtenau, Germany
May 24, 2006
$1,579,140
29,007 (29,007)

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Schlossplatz
Koblenz, Germany
May 17, 2006
$1,524,278
26,509 (26,509)

Yea, I think the "sellout" or capacity figure is the figure determined by the promoter. MK would hold way more than 85K for two nights. But, those figures are quite impressive.

deb

a sell out doesnt mean every seat in the place is filled.

remember in the satdiums a large portion of seats behind the stage is cut off...

the actual determining figure of what is a sell out / maximum people allowed in is the fire / health and safety regulations for the venue and not the band or promoter themselves.

I know, and I'm using MK as an example of this, I've seen sold out shows in this venue where the figures would be 60k in a single night, surely 2 nights would at least bring in 115-120k wouldn't it??

i dont think those figures are right

the city of manchester stadium holds 48,500 - gaining the pitch but loosing the seats behind the stand that would not give them 10,000 extra tickets and all the seats wernt full.

Milton keynes has a capacity of 65,000. but the Bon Jovi gigs were licensed to 60,000

also i dont think the croke park figure is right check the photo in the center of the dublin page http://bonjovi.aeglive.com/photos.html and look at all the empty seats

There did seem to be small patches around the place, but they filled by about 3-4 songs in, that photo is taken during Last man standing - the first song when there were still people arriving to the venue.

I've been to many 'sold out' shows to find empty seats scattered around the place, these can often be explained by some companies that get allocated free batches of complimentray tickets and never use them, other unofficial ticketing sources that didnt sell/touts etc etc

So, judging for example for Croke park id guess somewhere around 79.000ish would of been there, and MK2 seemed to have more at it than MK1 as the side bits of the hill were more covered on the 2nd night.


andi

There will probably always be empty seats as most of the standing tickets are standing/unreserved seating. I would have thought they can't physically sell too many tickets because what if no one chose to sit in the seats and you ended up with a crush on the pitch. I think you can only sell enough tickets so that it's safe if everyone chose to stand and hope that enough people sit on the seats to make it more comfortable for people who do choose to stand. There are also people who go on these corporate VIP things who aren't really fans and spend half the show in the bar.

Here's the link to billboard. It shows the top 10 concert grosses. Bon Jovi is in 8 of the 10 slots:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/boxscore.jsp

Wow that's pretty damn good! Thanks for that link Deb.

night 1 was 55 000
night 2 was 65 000
120 000 over 2 nights