UK ticket sales

[QUOTE=hometownboy;835851]i personally think they were too optimistic thinking they could sell that out , they could have easily sold out an arena or even two (one date in the north and one in the south)



Again i think glastonbury is struggling because of the strength of the line-up , the headliners are good in there own right but to headline britian's "biggest" festival , there no way near that status. Eavis should of gone out of way , paid the huge bill but got led zeppelin , if that was the case it would of sold out within an hour! Last year the rolling stones said they wanted 1 million to play , eavis denied (which i personally think was him thinking about his own pocket and it it's not like he doesnt make millions off the festival anyway) , i personally think he should of paid the bill , and also this time gone for bigger acts!

They may not be selling out all stadiums but 72.000 in munich, 55.000 in frankfurt, 50.000 in barcelona, 40.000 in vienna, and so far they have sold 28-29.000 of 30.000 for the gig in Denmark, 38.000 of about 40.000 for the gig in helsinki and oslo is up there to, and these figures are pretty darn impressive to me. Police has cancelled their show in Denmark with only 6000 tickets sold of 35.000, and didn't bruce move one gig inddoor in germany due to poor ticketssales?? This tour, when its over will be Jovis best groosing tour ever so I'll say they're doing just fine.

Barca and Frankfurt were nowhere near selling out,lots of empty seats.Also i am not surprised the UK shows are not selling out,GC are still available and at 75 quid plus the charges little wonder,its the reason we're only doing 1 show in the uk.i don't think the current economic climate has had much effect as the tickets went on sale in november when things were much better,2009 will not be a good year for any band to tour though.

Like someone mentioned we shall see when the Boxscore numbers come in. I mean i don't know what some of you guys mean when you say that Lost Highway did terrible in Germany because it did go platinum there just like Have a nice day did, so I don't know how it was a failure. Plus if tickets were really suffering they would of cancelled the show or did like bruce did and move a show to indoors. I agree that other artists will have trouble on tour not just next year, but the rest of this year with acts like Madonna and U2

Wake up wake up your dreaming big time.

BJ must have sold more tickets than Madonna in the UK as she`s only doing 2 gigs and they have`nt yet sold out.............

1 Bon Jovi, Gianna Nannini Olympiastadion
Munich, Germany
May 24, 2008
$6,089,353
70,473 /
70,473
1 /
1
$96.38, $91.72, $88.61, $74.62
AEG Live/United Promoters

2 Bon Jovi, No Way Out, Savia Estadio Olimpico
Barcelona, Spain
June 1, 2008
$4,046,421
46,255 /
46,255
1 /
1
$111, $96, $73.50
AEG Live/Doctor Music

3 Bon Jovi, Skank, Alanis Morissette, Alejandro Sanz Rock In Rio Festival
Lisbon, Portugal
May 31, 2008
$3,993,759
48,831 /
48,831
1 /
1
$81.79
Better World-Rock In Rio Lisbon

4 Sasquatch Music Festival: R.E.M., The Cure, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, The Mars Volta, M.I.A., Michael Franti & Spearhead, Flight of the Conchords & others The Gorge
George, Wash.
May 24-26, 2008
$3,540,892
62,493 /
66,247
3 /
2
$56.50, $51.50
Live Nation

5 Bon Jovi, Gianna Nannini Veltsin Stadium
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
May 22, 2008
$3,350,126
38,918 /
38,918
1 /
1
$96.38, $91.72, $88.61, $57.52
AEG Live/United Promoters

6 Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan, Luke Bryan AT&T Park
San Francisco, Calif.
June 8, 2008
$3,036,391
34,328 /
37,033
1 /
0
$110, $77, $69, $24.50
San Francisco Giants Enterprises/The Messina Group/AEG Live

7 Bon Jovi, Gianna Nannini Commerzbank-Arena
Frankfurt, Germany
June 3, 2008
$2,985,360
37,187 /
37,187
1 /
1
$93.27, $85.50, $80.83, $77.73
AEG Live/United Promoters

8 Bon Jovi, Gianna Nannini Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
Stuttgart, Germany
May 29, 2008
$2,952,905
36,768 /
36,768
1 /
1
$88.61, $82.39, $79.28
AEG Live/United Promoters

9 Bon Jovi, Gianna Nannini Zentralstadion
Leipzig, Germany
May 25, 2008
$2,837,203
34,084 /
34,084
1 /
1
$96.38, $85.50, $83.94, $69.95
AEG Live/United Promoters

10 Van Halen BankAtlantic Center
Sunrise, Fla.
Feb. 12, 20, 2008
$2,793,544
24,745 /
24,745
2 /
2
$146.75, $76.75, $46.75
Live Nation

There it is from Billboard, all seven of the shows on the chart were SOLD OUT. So like someone said, wait until you have hard facts.

Yep, just as I suspected, I knew the promoter was smart enough to set a "realistic" capacity to sell them all out. I'd be pleased with those numbers if I were the band.

deb

The promoter sets the capacity then, seems to me they were playing it safe by reducing, say a 80,000 stadium to a 60,000 capacity, is that what you mean?

Yes, that is what I mean. Plus, unlike the US arena shows where they sold seats behind the stage I don't think they are doing that for these stadium shows. But, even the smallest shows is at 34K which really isn't bad.

deb