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Originally Posted by JackieBlue
Yes they do, especially when you consider that over the last 10 years Bon Jovi made $836,661,584; but only $43 mil of that came from their latest tour. Compare that to GNR where $584 million of their 10-year total of $648 million, came from their latest 'Not in This Lifetime' tour alone (Apr 2016 - Nov. 2019). That makes the GNR tour the third highest grossing tour of all time, behind Ed Sheeran and U2.
( https://www.iheart.com/content/2019-...mpid=headline1)
Looks like Phil-X was right: the real money is in reunion tours. |
Sorry, but this is a horrible analogy.
First, THINFS tour did not draw that much relative to previous tours, because it did not have the same scale. They were playing ~32 dates per year, compared to 102 in 2013, 59 in 2011 and 85 in 2010. GNR on the other hand, had 175 shows in the NITL tour, they basically travelled around the world twice in the course of a 3.5 year period (you might as well call two tours), compared to the previous tours which were 40-50 shows per tour. How you name the tour (or merge multiple legs into "one tour) is just semantics, the real indicator comes from taking a comparable number of shows. Only then you would have an apples to apples situation.
Second, while I hope Richie comes back, but his return would not have anywhere near the level of Slash's return to GNR, because there was no massive drop in ticket sales. I expect a small spike (c. 5% in US and 10-15% in Europe), but nowhere near Slash's level of impact. GNR is a stadium act with Slash and a fringe arena act without Slash. Bon Jovi in this day and age is a fringe stadium act and a very strong arena act, with or without Richie.