tour gross-new numbers

Springsteen IS playing mostly stadiums in Scandinavia. I think the only arenas he played in Scandinavia on this tour were Telenor Arena in Oslo (which is actually an indoor football stadium with the capacity of 23 000 in a concert) and Turku Arena in Turku. And he played in Turku Arena only because he already played a sold out stadium show in Helsinki, Finland on the same tour. And because Turku was close to Stockholm where he played 3 sold out stadium shows on the same week. And also in Denmark he did a stadium show. So that's about Scandinavia.

This is a fantastic effort by BJ and a personal best for them. They keep getting bigger! Imagine the numbers they could have achieved if Sambora played.

I don't really think the numbers would be noticeably bigger if Richie was there. I'm sorry, that's just naive.

I wouldn't classify that as getting bigger but, for a band that has saturated the market so much in the last 13 years they've maintained their status incredibly well....

When I say bigger I am refering to gross sales numbers. This was a PB for the band.

Most people I spoke to said they would not go to the show if Sambora was not present. These people are not die hard fans but either admire the band or are generally into live rock shows. I would think that would equate to around 5 - 7.5%.