Tour Schedule & Sold Out Shows (artRave) - $83M tour gross / 74 shows

[NewYorkCity 10,536]

We were talking about the cities where Katy is doing SEVERAL shows. Obviously the interest in her is high in Australia.

700,000 purchased Roar in Aus. Is it really THAT odd to you guys that she's able to play to almost 300,000 people in Australia?

no no!

I am sure that she has the audience in Australia, she has been big there and she has done promo so... I am no doubting her touring power, of course. That would be stupid. Fans cannot make that.

I was just stating that there are more things that can drive you to sell tickets (in some places, specially in Europe where Katy is strugglin) appart from having big hits

[EdX 2,893]

The standing area in Antwerp is HUGE!

[ViviLittleM 3]

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AMAZING :giveup:

[Pure Adrenaline 1,518]

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AMAZING :giveup:

slay me goddess of love with ur diviness

 

[ViviLittleM 3]

Lady Gaga â€@MarvynGaGa 8 min

Gaga just yelled the name of all her singles from Just Dance to Cheek To Cheek but she didn't metion Marry The Night lmao #artRaveAntwerp

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[Arturo 40,746]

no no!

I am sure that she has the audience in Australia, she has been big there and she has done promo so... I am no doubting her touring power, of course. That would be stupid. Fans cannot make that.

I was just stating that there are more things that can drive you to sell tickets (in some places, specially in Europe where Katy is strugglin) appart from having big hits

Oh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. You're right. The fact that Pharrell thought he could suddenly play arenas around Europe after Happy is just laughable. 

[Der Meister 3,000]

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AMAZING :giveup:

 

It's no doubt she got inspired by this

 

[ViviLittleM 3]

If we have boxscores tomorrow, it should be a very good week for little managers :heat:

[NewYorkCity 10,536]

Oh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. You're right. The fact that Pharrell thought he could suddenly play arenas around Europe after Happy is just laughable. 

no problem

ifkr... it has been the biggest mess in years :toofloppy: I mean, not one, but TWO concerts in Spain with capacity attendance for like 35k people PLUS another one in Portugal... that was so impossible to make. Now all of them are cancelled.

[GagaMyBlood95 9,915]

Tonights show looks awesome So happy!

[ChrisX 0]

If we have boxscores tomorrow, it should be a very good week for little managers :heat:

Doubt we have it tomorrow, I feel like it'll all come the end of the tour.

[Griffin 6]

Wait, how is One Direction's tour going? 

 

I thought they had great touring power, but their show at Arlington's AT&T Stadium was performed to 31k, whereas others have performed for over 80k - what's going on there?

[Arturo 40,746]

Wait, how is One Direction's tour going? 

 

I thought they had great touring power, but their show at Arlington's AT&T Stadium was performed to 31k, whereas others have performed for over 80k - what's going on there?

Their tour is the biggest tour of 2014 and already one of the highest grossing tours of all time and Billboard still has to report the final 10 dates (some of which haven't been played)

[StrawberryBlond 14,965]

Wait, how is One Direction's tour going? 

 

I thought they had great touring power, but their show at Arlington's AT&T Stadium was performed to 31k, whereas others have performed for over 80k - what's going on there?

 

The tour has been extremely successful, but it was a mistake doing 4 stadiums in Texas alone. I don't know what was going through the minds of the promoters with that one. All 4 of those dates underperformed (by stadium standards). They performed to nearly 100k people there, which was the equivalent of 8 sold out arena dates, but because they were at stadiums instead, they were playing at 4 massive, half empty venues. I think any future dates there will just have 2 stadiums instead of 4 right from the outset. But of course, no one calls them flops. Gaga plays for half empty stadiums in Latin America, a non English speaking region, and everyone gets on her case for it.

 

And speaking of which, 1D played at a lot of the same venues in Latin America that Gaga did with the BTWB and it's worth noting that Gaga performed better in some of these countries than 1D did. She did over 30k in Colombia, 1D did 20k. Gaga did over 36k in Peru, 1D did over 22k. Gaga did over 45k in Argentina (1 date), 1D did over 40k (2 dates). Gaga did over 26k in Paraguay, 1D had to cancel their show at the same venue due to poor ticket sales. Even in the regions where 1D performed better, it wasn't by much. There was only a 5k difference between their sales in Chile (and 1D had 2 dates and Gaga only had 1) and a 4k difference in Rio de Janeiro at the same venues. The only place where they outsold her massively was in Sao Paulo, with over 62k at the Estadio do Morumbi...but that was their attendance for 2 dates there, meaning one barely sold. But their underperformance in these regions has been swept under the rug, as I'm sure it will be when they go to Asia where the only demand for a second date came from the Phillippines, and it was an arena date, not a stadium. They copied Gaga's schedule massively for their Asian leg but a glaring difference is that they've only got 1 date in the Hong Kong arena, yet Gaga had 4. 1D is primarily a North American/European/Oceanian phenomenon. Their fanbase in other regions is limited.

[Rainbow Unicorn 82]

Wait, how is One Direction's tour going? 

 

I thought they had great touring power, but their show at Arlington's AT&T Stadium was performed to 31k, whereas others have performed for over 80k - what's going on there?

 

The tour has been extremely successful, but it was a mistake doing 4 stadiums in Texas alone. I don't know what was going through the minds of the promoters with that one. All 4 of those dates underperformed (by stadium standards). They performed to nearly 100k people there, which was the equivalent of 8 sold out arena dates, but because they were at stadiums instead, they were playing at 4 massive, half empty venues. I think any future dates there will just have 2 stadiums instead of 4 right from the outset. But of course, no one calls them flops. Gaga plays for half empty stadiums in Latin America, a non English speaking region, and everyone gets on her case for it.

 

And speaking of which, 1D played at a lot of the same venues in Latin America that Gaga did with the BTWB and it's worth noting that Gaga performed better in some of these countries than 1D did. She did over 30k in Colombia, 1D did 20k. Gaga did over 36k in Peru, 1D did over 22k. Gaga did over 45k in Argentina (1 date), 1D did over 40k (2 dates). Gaga did over 26k in Paraguay, 1D had to cancel their show at the same venue due to poor ticket sales. Even in the regions where 1D performed better, it wasn't by much. There was only a 5k difference between their sales in Chile (and 1D had 2 dates and Gaga only had 1) and a 4k difference in Rio de Janeiro at the same venues. The only place where they outsold her massively was in Sao Paulo, with over 62k at the Estadio do Morumbi...but that was their attendance for 2 dates there, meaning one barely sold. But their underperformance in these regions has been swept under the rug, as I'm sure it will be when they go to Asia where the only demand for a second date came from the Phillippines, and it was an arena date, not a stadium. They copied Gaga's schedule massively for their Asian leg but a glaring difference is that they've only got 1 date in the Hong Kong arena, yet Gaga had 4. 1D is primarily a North American/European/Oceanian phenomenon. Their fanbase in other regions is limited.

 

Everything you said is false because you paid attention to Wikipedia's numbers, which have been changed by a poor hater... However, you can still check the references and sources (Billboard boxscores) on top of their tour dates' board because they haven't been stupidly changed (at the right of the leg). Taylor Swift's page on Wikipedia have also been touched by possible vandalism.

 

They outsold Gaga everywhere. In Texas, yes they performed four shows there, but all were sold-out. In Dallas, they sold 51k tickets, in Houston, almost 56k. El Paso + San Antonio numbers haven't been reported yet. AT&T Stadium in San Antonio doesn't hold more than 55k people for an end-stage event : Taylor Swift, for example performed a sold-out show there for 53k.

 

And the phenomon was as big in Latin America : in Bogota, they performed for 35k, almost 33k fans were at their concert in Peru, but they played a smaller stadium than Gaga did back in 2012, without any deal. 81k tickets were sold in Argentina (2 dates : 40k per show), in a smaller stadium than Gaga did, but who cares this is still 2 sold-out stadium dates. In Chile, 87k fans attended their concert, 31k in Montevideo and over 40k at Parque dos Atletas in Rio de Janeiro. They performed for 103k in São Paulo (51-52k per show) at Morumbi Stadium, I'm not sure it was sold-out because they removed their show in a bigger venue (at first, their concerts were planned at the Allianz Parque which will hold 50k people and isn't even finished yet...).

 

Anyway, I hope someone will change those errors on Wikipedia quickly. So, don't pay attention to the numbers. At least, pay attention to the boxscores !  :)