How Katy Perry roars past Taylor Swift financially

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

1 hour ago, Redstreak said:

Yeah but the financial tracking year for that Forbes article is from June 2014 to June 2015, and Taylor's tour is mostly outside of that range where as Katy had the Prismatic all throughout

But all her endorsements and tour shows with expensive tickets say hi! 

[imwoahvicky 4,248]

3 hours ago, bionic said:

 

[imwoahvicky 4,248]

 

Just now, Scarlet said:

3 hours ago, bionic said:

 

 

Jesus christ, I apologize for that above post. Gaga Daily is glitching the hell out for me.

 

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[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

"Perry’s overall success is often attributed to her ability to connect with fans on a personal level and tap into what they might be feeling."

 CORRECTION

 

"LADY GAGA overall success is often attributed to her ability to connect with fans on a personal level and tap into what they might be feeling."

[imwoahvicky 4,248]

Lol, no idea how to fix this issue. Quotes wont work, and like, no emoticons ..

On another note, @LeoFameMonster I couldn't help but thought how Perry connects with her fans? I don't mean to hate, but I never really seen any of her music in general to specifically 'connect' to. 

And replying to what someone else said about me underlining how many stops...I thought it was invalid how Katy financially beat Taylor? Taylor has just about half the stops Katy does, and she seems to have grossed more, so technically Taylor is winning financially.

[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

6 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

 

On another note, @LeoFameMonster I couldn't help but thought how Perry connects with her fans? I don't mean to hate, but I never really seen any of her music in general to specifically 'connect' to. 

 

I know I don't connect with her on a music level or an artist level. She isn't that relatable her music is imo is to generic for me to connect to. 

But then again I am a Gaga fan and no one has been more relatable and close to their fans than her.

[Kacey Elizabeth 900]

2 hours ago, Whispering said:

Ten times? Lol, that's BS and you know it. 

Katy's prices are cheaper because that's all she can get. Taylor can charge more because the demand is greater. 

The real difference here is that Taylor is playing stadiums, large basketball arenas and several dates in some cities. That kind of demand isn't there for Katy, either in the way of huge venues or with ticket prices.

If Katy wanted to do stadiums, she would've done it, and would've slayed. But it's just a fact that you can do a lot more artistically with arenas and a lot of performers seem to prefer them over stadiums. Katy played in a lot of huge arenas, too. When you compare the attendances of both tours, there is only a little bit of difference in numbers. 

"Katy's prices are cheaper because that's all she can get. Taylor can charge more because the demand is greater" This is the only BS in this argument, not what I said. You only need to compare the prices to see how The 1989 World Tour is a lot more expensive when it comes to tickets.

I still have you ignored. The reason I'm replying is because you decided to reply first. So just leave me alone and stop trying to pick up arguments with me and put me in your ignore list. You are taking advantage of the fact that I have you ignored so I won't see your posts unless I request to see one of your posts, so you'll just reply to what I say, thinking that you have won the argument. You literally think everything you say is right and everything opposite is wrong and you aren't open to any outside information other than the ones in your little, imagery world. It's not clever nor it makes you sound smart and knowledgable - it's boring, repetitive (trying to keep it cute here) and makes you sound incoherent. 

[ゼレミ ノヴェリノ 370]

My country isn't even on Taylor's tour list but her impact here are enormous (Wildest Dreams are playing everywhere, not to mention her previous singles)

I have a feeling that she'll add more stops as time passes by tho

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[Redstreak 6,653]

5 minutes ago, ゼレミ ノヴェリノ said:

 

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They're being re-added over the weekend

[ゼレミ ノヴェリノ 370]

Just now, Redstreak said:

They're being re-added over the weekend

I see

[Mark 4,065]

At least Katy made an effort to reach to the farther fans out there (money-related reason or not). Meanwhile, Taylor be counting her coins during her free times instead of actually going out there for less money.

[Whispering 18,865]

3 hours ago, Kacey Elizabeth said:

If Katy wanted to do stadiums, she would've done it, and would've slayed. But it's just a fact that you can do a lot more artistically with arenas and a lot of performers seem to prefer them over stadiums. Katy played in a lot of huge arenas, too. When you compare the attendances of both tours, there is only a little bit of difference in numbers. 

"Katy's prices are cheaper because that's all she can get. Taylor can charge more because the demand is greater" This is the only BS in this argument, not what I said. You only need to compare the prices to see how The 1989 World Tour is a lot more expensive when it comes to tickets.

 

Lol, Katy didn't do stadiums because there wasn't demand for them. She didn't have enough people in any one area to demand stadiums. If KP could have pulled 50 to 60 thousand people in one date, she would have done those types of shows. 

The average prices aren't that far off...not ten times greater. That's BS. Anyway, Katy can't charge as much, because people wouldn't pay it. 

 

[Felicia 124]

Taylor's obviously making more money per show. So those stats really mean nothing in the overall scheme.

[Whispering 18,865]

6 hours ago, Redstreak said:

Yeah but the financial tracking year for that Forbes article is from June 2014 to June 2015, and Taylor's tour is mostly outside of that range where as Katy had the Prismatic all throughout

True. Only 20 of Taylor's tour dates out of 86 were counted on the Forbes article. If they would have compared both complete tours, Taylor would have outsold Katy...with far fewer dates. 

[ctherainbow 3,162]

4 hours ago, Kacey Elizabeth said:

I'm pretty sure you didn't stan Katy during Teenage Dream and are just making things up in order to get your point across. But what else is new with Little Monsters like you? I can't except anything else from ya'll. The fact that you actually think that Katy became successful because of her boobs shows how little you know about her and how you didn't stan her during that era. If Katy ever was known and successful for her boobs, she would've faded into obscurity by her third album and wouldn't have sold this amount of records. Most of her demographic are teens and children couldn't have cared less about her boobs and even her adult KatyCats don't care about her boobs nor they stan her because of them. The only people who only care about her boobs are just a bunch of grown, perverted men who have nothing to do with their lives and don't even buy Katy's music nor they go to her shows. So try again.

You cannot call it a fact unless it is observed, experimented with, and has been proven, which it isn't, so it is not a fact. Nice try. 

Katy's tour was 99% sold out, so it came pretty close to being fully sold-out. Not to mention that all her North American dates were reported to be sold-out, and NA is the region where Taylor's 1989 World Tour had most of it's dates taken place in and all of the shows were sold-out as well, but what does that indicate? Well, let's see. The PRISMATIC World Tour had 151 dates: 38 in Europe, 67 in North America, 25 in Oceania, 12 in Asia, and 10 in Latin America. The 1989 World Tour has 85 dates: 7 in Asia, 8 in Europe, 63 in North America, and 7 in Oceania. With that many shows, The PRISMATIC World Tour managed to sell-out 99% of it's set tickets. If Taylor's tour had as many dates as The PWT, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been 100% sold-out. If Taylor really had demand in South America and most of Europe, she would've added dates for her tour in those regions, but she didn't. Why? 'Cause her reocrd label is aware of the fact that she doesn't have much demand there, and that she wouldn't have had sell-out her tour there. So in order to don't make her look bad, they didn't add dates there. Taylor and her record label only added dates in places where they knew for sure that Taylor would've sold out. If Katy's tour had as many dates as Taylor's tour, her tour would've been 100% sold-out as well. By the way, if all the boxscores for The PRISMATIC World Tour get released, it would have a attendance of 2,000,000+ along with a gross of 200,000,000+. Try harder maybe? 

The fact that Katy got global with just two pop albums and eras (I don't consider One of the Boys a pop album, at least not fully) whereas Taylor already has had two pop eras and albums, and still hasn't been able to be as global as Katy says a lot. She'll never have a worldwide stardom and would never reach Katy's popularity, impact, and success on a worldwide level. She's way too overexposed now and her next era will be a huge decline for her, so her chance of being global is extremely slim. 

It is going to take me a minute to respond to this.  Lemme grab a drink.

Yes, I was a stan during Teenage Dream.  If you've ever seen my posts in other sections, you'd see that I have a long history of only posting truthful information, not least because I don't want to look a fool.  I was in fact a Katy stan in 2010/early 2011.  

The boobs comment was a single sarcastic line that I was not actually presenting as a serious point, but thanks for typing up a response.

Of course I can't call it a fact, a fact of which I was very aware that you might try to drag me for while I was typing "I know for a fact".  What I mean is that there is very little evidence that I've found that indicates that people stan Katy for a personal connection and inspiration, but feel free to present me evidence that shows me otherwise, because if it's true, I would like to know.  And I'm serious about wanting to know; ever since I've seen you defending Katy in every negative thread on GGD, I've wondered why you feel so strongly about her, and whether there is in fact a large group of KatyKats who feel that strongly about her, so if you wouldn't mind sharing why you love her so much, I'd be more than willing to listen.

Now, getting to the on-topic part here; you say that Taylor's team decided not to book her for countries where she wouldn't have a sold-out show.  However, Katy's team clearly booked her for countries where she didn't sell out her show, so why would Katy's team do that, but Taylor's wouldn't?  Do you expect me to believe that Katy's team just loves the fans in these countries so much more than Taylor's team does?  Not being a part of Taylor's team, I of course cannot tell you why she didn't tour in these countries.  Also, you clearly did not take the time to read through my post.  I said, "Taylor could have easily booked one stop in many of the smaller European countries/some South American countries, and had a tour that looked far more global than it does now".  Nowhere did I suggest that her tour would have been more "global" than Katy's; I just said she could've made it look more global than it does now.  But thank you for breaking down all the stops for me.  Oh, and on those estimated total PWT tour totals, do you have sources?  Like Whitney, I'd like to see the receipts.  (Sidenote:  I did the math, based off of capacities for 1989 World Tour future and unreported dates, and Taylor could have attendance of around 2.5 million, which will also put it past a 200 million gross)   Perhaps we could all try harder to match that number with our tours.

In terms of future Katy and Taylor success, I guess we'll both just have to see.  Katy continues to have extraordinarily well-selling singles, while Taylor has continued to produce extraordinarily well-selling albums.  I just really take issue with a Katy stan acting like Taylor isn't at least catching up with Katy on a global level when 1989's sales just outside the US are almost as much as Prism's total sales, including the US.