First boxscore numbers are in!

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

approximately 1.7m per show

if it continues like that, she'll be around 104m

if she isn't dropping lg6 early next year, the tour should continue

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

You're giving me a million reasons to keep the show... 

[Haroon 49,685]

3 hours ago, Counterfeit said:

@ViviLittleM cc

Please add this image to your OP My Chrome keeps crashing and I'm on Internet Explorer and I can't get the link of the image to add it myself  

[NewUsername 11,391]

I don't get why shows are marked as sold out when they're not completely sold out (guess this doesn't happen to Gaga only though).

[androiduser 7,438]

7 minutes ago, Driezewies said:

I don't get why shows are marked as sold out when they're not completely sold out (guess this doesn't happen to Gaga only though).

Usually the first batch of tickets is used to call something as sold out, and then the promoters just calls the total number of tix sold as the maximum they released. That's why even half empty arenas are marked as 100% sold. Live Nation is especially well known for this.

[NewUsername 11,391]

5 minutes ago, androiduser said:

Usually the first batch of tickets is used to call something as sold out, and then the promoters just calls the total number of tix sold as the maximum they released. That's why even half empty arenas are marked as 100% sold. Live Nation is especially well known for this.

so wrong tbh  

[StrawberryBlond 14,822]

These numbers are awesome, even better than I could've hoped for! Those Tacoma Dome figures are outstanding, she's never played to an audience that big there. That's why she went to the KeyArena last tour because she just couldn't sell out the dome but not this time. For the first 5 shows to pull in over 77k attendance and $8.7 million is truly an incredible feat, especially for a singer who's struggled to have hits of late. Even though it is just American dates, where she has better album sales, a #4 single and the SB promo, that is still incredible. Gaga's a 31-year-old female artist who's been in the game for just under a decade whose top ten hits are growing thin on the ground now, so these figures cannot be underestimated. Most women in her position just can't achieve this. This is all proof that Gaga is going to be around forever. So much for all the haters who said that she was over after BTW.

15 minutes ago, Driezewies said:

I don't get why shows are marked as sold out when they're not completely sold out (guess this doesn't happen to Gaga only though).

You just have to sell the bare minimum to be considered a sell out. Whatever that number is differs from venue to venue, depending on size, obviously, which is why the precise numbers to sell out differ. I think the overall budget for the tour is factored in as well to work it out. Basically, if you've got a multimillion dollar tour with all the bells and whistles and you're performing at a 50k stadium, then, yeah, you'll need to sell out almost all of those tickets. But if you're a very basic produced tour and you're performing at a tiny 10k capacity arena, you might need to sell little over 5-6k tickets to be considered sold out.

[Arturo 40,746]

21 minutes ago, Driezewies said:

I don't get why shows are marked as sold out when they're not completely sold out (guess this doesn't happen to Gaga only though).

What do you mean by not completely sold out?

If by a few blue tickets left then yeah there were those because they added seats behind the stage as well as turned a few platinum tickets into regular tickets.

But there were so few left like a couple hundred out of 15k is nothing. 1% of the arena unsoldis still good enough to call it sold out.

 

Now if you mean not sold out in the sense that you believed those Wikipedia'd numbers like Rogers Place can hold 21k then no. Those capacities thrown around are plain wrong.

[Morphine Prince 105,732]

26 minutes ago, Haroon said:

I'm on Internet Explorer 

Love yourself 

[Haroon 49,685]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

Love yourself 

I just downloaded Firefox and I'm on that now Could not deal  

[Arturo 40,746]

18 minutes ago, androiduser said:

Usually the first batch of tickets is used to call something as sold out, and then the promoters just calls the total number of tix sold as the maximum they released. That's why even half empty arenas are marked as 100% sold. Live Nation is especially well known for this.

This is true. But in Gaga's case the first 5 dates only had a couple hundred tickets left before the show. So more like 1% empty in Gaga's case.

[moonsago 7,285]

5 hours ago, Easy said:

The moral of the story is she should come to Asia. 

Last she came, she did 4 shows in Hong Kong, one of the smallest cities in the world that doesn't care about English pop music THAT much, all sold out and grossed $7.89 million 

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Still waiting for her to announce Asia dates 

 

 

Isn't she banned in China tho? After meeting with that old guy sorry idk who he is 

[Talent 9,333]

Just now, moonsago said:

Isn't she banned in China tho? After meeting with that old guy sorry idk who he is 

"That old guy". The Dalai Lama, one of the most important figures of our time.

[Laceface 2,964]

the impact

[Arturo 40,746]

I think part of the reason Gaga isn't going to asia and Aus is that even if she sells them out (which she can in Asia and can do in Aus now that The Cure was a hit there) is that this is her most complex stage yet. It's expensive to move around from country to country. They can drive around the US and drive around continental Europe in those trucks but getting to Asia and Aus will require costly flights for 27 trucks worth of staging and lights.