Can anyone post the text of this billboard article on TCB

[monstertoronto 8,998]

I’m very curious to read this article in Billboard about TCB.  I don’t have a subscription but I know some people have workarounds. Can anyone see this article and post the text? It prob doesn’t Gabe any info we don’t already know but I really want to know what Billboard said about the tour. 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-tour-earns-112-million/?fbclid=IwAR2xRs3gvxMzKsq5a2VfjebxfbfwiojkUcFuhHG0k2t8LrXvvWu5awYOYMU

[Danny Milk 1,724]

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12 minutes ago, monstertoronto said:

I’m very curious to read this article in Billboard about TCB.  I don’t have a subscription but I know some people have workarounds. Can anyone see this article and post the text? It prob doesn’t Gabe any info we don’t already know but I really want to know what Billboard said about the tour. 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-tour-earns-112-million/?fbclid=IwAR2xRs3gvxMzKsq5a2VfjebxfbfwiojkUcFuhHG0k2t8LrXvvWu5awYOYMU

*here* is the answer

 

also, Wayback machine, when using the Save feature on paywalls, usually archives the entire thing as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027044310/https://www.billboard.com/pro/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-tour-earns-112-million/

[Ivy 11,835]

I managed to be able to see it with pressing x before the page loaded all the way 

I'm on my phone so it was a lil hard to copy and paste but I think this is all of it?..

 

Spoiler

Lady Gaga Finishes The Chromatica Ball With $112 Million in Stadiums

The trans-continental trek sold over 800,000 tickets.

 

BY ERIC FRANKENBERG

 

The typical album cycle in recent years: drop a single, announce a handful of concerts, set a release date, encounter a global pandemic, wait two years for the touring industry to allow your world tour to play. Thirty months after tickets went on sale, Lady Gaga has wrapped The much-bigger-than-originally-planned Chromatica Ball to the tune of $112.4 million and 834,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

The original incarnation of The Chromatica Ball was a set of two European shows (Paris on July 24, 2020 and London on July 30) and four North American shows (Boston on Aug. 5, Toronto on Aug. 9, Chicago on Aug. 14, and East Rutherford, N.J., on Aug. 19). Delayed once to 2021 and again to 2022, the tour expanded from six shows to 20, playing five markets in Europe (including two shows in London), 11 in North America and a double-header in Tokyo.

 

Much like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa, being forced to push her shows to 2022 by the pandemic yielded heightened anticipation rather than attention-span malaise. Gaga swept through Germany, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and England, earning $28.3 million from six shows in July. She followed with a North American leg that earned $72.6 million in July and August, plus two shows in Tokyo that generated $11.5 million on Sept. 3-4.

 

Gaga set a handful of local records along the way, claiming the highest gross in Hershey Park Stadium’s history. Among single-night engagements, she has the all-time top gross at San Francisco’s Oracle Park ($7.4 million), top attendance at Boston’s Fenway Park (38,267), and gross and attendance at Chicago’s Wrigley Field ($6.9 million; 43,019). The only event with a larger gross at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium was 2017’s The Classic West, the two-day classic rock super-festival headlined by the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac.

 

The Chromatica Ball was Gaga’s first all-stadium run, but it wasn’t her first dip in the pond. As early as The Monster Ball (2009-11), the pop shapeshifter played stadiums in multiple Mexican markets, selling out two nights at Mexico City’s Foro Sol with 111,000 tickets sold.

 

Gaga’s stadium ambition spread throughout Asia, Europe, South America and Africa on The Born This Way Ball (2012-13) and ArtRave: The ARTPOP Ball (2014), mixed with arenas on each continent, and exclusively indoor venues in North America. Conversely, The Joanne Ball (2017-18) mixed arenas and stadiums in North America but stuck to arenas for its limited European run.

 

Despite its 2022 expansion, The Chromatica Ball was relatively brief compared to her previous tours. But moving to stadiums allowed Gaga to maximize her nightly audience, averaging 41,700 tickets per night, up 127% from her previous best of 18,400 on The Born This Way Ball. In nightly revenue, The Chromatica Ball leapt by 190% to a pace of $5.6 million, passing The Joanne Ball’s $1.9 million.

 

At just 20 shows, The Chromatica Ball became Gaga’s highest grossing tour in a decade, and marked her third $100 million-dollar tour, following The Monster Ball and The Born This Way Ball.

 

In all, Lady Gaga has a reported career gross of $689.5 million and attendance of 6.3 million.

 

 

[monstertoronto 8,998]

10 minutes ago, Danny Milk said:

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[monstertoronto 8,998]

8 minutes ago, ChicaSkas said:

*here* is the answer

 

also, Wayback machine, when using the Save feature on paywalls, usually archives the entire thing as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027044310/https://www.billboard.com/pro/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-tour-earns-112-million/

Thank you!!

[monstertoronto 8,998]

3 minutes ago, Ivy said:

I managed to be able to see it with pressing x before the page loaded all the way 

I'm on my phone so it was a lil hard to copy and paste but I think this is all of it?..

 

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Lady Gaga Finishes The Chromatica Ball With $112 Million in Stadiums

The trans-continental trek sold over 800,000 tickets.

 

BY ERIC FRANKENBERG

 

The typical album cycle in recent years: drop a single, announce a handful of concerts, set a release date, encounter a global pandemic, wait two years for the touring industry to allow your world tour to play. Thirty months after tickets went on sale, Lady Gaga has wrapped The much-bigger-than-originally-planned Chromatica Ball to the tune of $112.4 million and 834,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

The original incarnation of The Chromatica Ball was a set of two European shows (Paris on July 24, 2020 and London on July 30) and four North American shows (Boston on Aug. 5, Toronto on Aug. 9, Chicago on Aug. 14, and East Rutherford, N.J., on Aug. 19). Delayed once to 2021 and again to 2022, the tour expanded from six shows to 20, playing five markets in Europe (including two shows in London), 11 in North America and a double-header in Tokyo.

 

Much like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa, being forced to push her shows to 2022 by the pandemic yielded heightened anticipation rather than attention-span malaise. Gaga swept through Germany, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and England, earning $28.3 million from six shows in July. She followed with a North American leg that earned $72.6 million in July and August, plus two shows in Tokyo that generated $11.5 million on Sept. 3-4.

 

Gaga set a handful of local records along the way, claiming the highest gross in Hershey Park Stadium’s history. Among single-night engagements, she has the all-time top gross at San Francisco’s Oracle Park ($7.4 million), top attendance at Boston’s Fenway Park (38,267), and gross and attendance at Chicago’s Wrigley Field ($6.9 million; 43,019). The only event with a larger gross at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium was 2017’s The Classic West, the two-day classic rock super-festival headlined by the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac.

 

The Chromatica Ball was Gaga’s first all-stadium run, but it wasn’t her first dip in the pond. As early as The Monster Ball (2009-11), the pop shapeshifter played stadiums in multiple Mexican markets, selling out two nights at Mexico City’s Foro Sol with 111,000 tickets sold.

 

Gaga’s stadium ambition spread throughout Asia, Europe, South America and Africa on The Born This Way Ball (2012-13) and ArtRave: The ARTPOP Ball (2014), mixed with arenas on each continent, and exclusively indoor venues in North America. Conversely, The Joanne Ball (2017-18) mixed arenas and stadiums in North America but stuck to arenas for its limited European run.

 

Despite its 2022 expansion, The Chromatica Ball was relatively brief compared to her previous tours. But moving to stadiums allowed Gaga to maximize her nightly audience, averaging 41,700 tickets per night, up 127% from her previous best of 18,400 on The Born This Way Ball. In nightly revenue, The Chromatica Ball leapt by 190% to a pace of $5.6 million, passing The Joanne Ball’s $1.9 million.

 

At just 20 shows, The Chromatica Ball became Gaga’s highest grossing tour in a decade, and marked her third $100 million-dollar tour, following The Monster Ball and The Born This Way Ball.

 

In all, Lady Gaga has a reported career gross of $689.5 million and attendance of 6.3 million.

 

 

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[Nathaniel Arven 1,639]

1 hour ago, Danny Milk said:

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[ChicaSkas 22,421]

1 hour ago, Nathaniel Arven said:

this is why ggd is the best site. 

Right?!

She literally wrote an entire passage in Babylon for us

Money don't talk, rip that song

I've been saying for years that these big concert promotors and organizers like LiveNation, etc, never listen to the REAL demands of fans. Our money doesn't talk with them. We can't pay them enough to make them do what we want. Example --- I bootleg shows. I wouldn't have to bootleg shows, if after the show, I could buy a flash drive with the entire concert on it. Maybe $50 bucks a pop. Maybe it gets mailed to me to allow for mastering. 

Like Willie Nelson, Nine Inch Nails, and the Pixies --- if Gaga offered a flash drive of each nights show for sale after the show, or available on her website, we starving little Monsters would PAY hand over fist.

Money doesn't talk, so we are forced to rip those songs!

 

[Nathaniel Arven 1,639]

1 hour ago, ChicaSkas said:

I wouldn't have to bootleg shows, if after the show, I could buy a flash drive with the entire concert on

omg this... 

they could also give a flashcode to a mega upload link or something now... That would be so cool if i could buy the shows i've been to yeah. 

But on the other hand. I respect the mystery of artists, and I think there is nothing that can compare being there live. I think Gaga knows this. Like Prince did.