Outselling ZOO TV? I don't think so. That tour had an attendance of over 5.2 million people. It is one of the ten highest attended tours in history. The gross is not comparable because it was a very different time when it came to ticket prices.
Adjusting for inflation gross comparisons are really only accurate back to the year 2000. Before that, especially once you get back to the early 90s and 80s, its only accurate to compare attendance.
I'm not referring to the overall ticket sales of the entirety of both tours. I'm saying that they are selling more tickets at many of the stadiums for this tour than on the JT tour.
Like Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, Detroit, and Pittsburgh.
I agree, my statement of them outselling ZooTV is not correct, but just doing better in some of the softer markets.
AND in 1992, they had several huge singles, a blockbuster album, huge MTV rotation and radio play backing up that tour. Nothing of the sort this time around.
So I think they are doing really well considering.
And seeing rock bands like Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon literally selling tiny amounts of tickets at many venues, and U2 competing with SO many artists on tour right now, Arcade Fire, KOL, Greenday, Metallica, McCartney, Roger Waters, Bon Jovi, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Rod Stewart, The Weeknd, Katy Perry, RHCP's, Billy Joel, Tom Petty, Depeche Mode, Muse, etc...
They are pretty much killin it.