toscano
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In the 00s, Metallica have only released one studio album of new material. It was called St. Anger. It sold about 4 million copies worldwide(1.7 million in the United States according to soundscan, 2 million shipped according to RIAA). ATYCLB by U2 sold 12 million copies worldwide. HTDAAB sold 9 million copies worldwide. I was comparing the bands in THIS decade, and their paths from a purely commercial stand point have significantly gone in different directions.
Again, you'r comparing numbers in a specific slice of the band's career, the point being made was that both bands have recovered from the changes in direction despised by the unwashed masses. Wheter that means 4 or 40m sales isn't the point.
Sheesh.
U2 could have easily played stadiums in North America on the Vertigo tour,but initially went with Arena's to be safe. Nearly every arena show soldout within minutes or hours showing that there was plenty of excess demand not met that could fill stadiums.
No way would they have filled a stadium. A lot of people went to multiple shows and with ticket prices where they were no way would they have 60/70,000 seaters if they did 2 nights in an area that filled 30,000 seats. There wasn't THAT much excess demand, On the day of every show I attended I could have gotten almost-face-value from pissed off scalpers on craigslist or ebay.
Say what you will about the POPMART tour, its still a higher level of success than anything Metallica has ever done in their career to date. U2 got over 40,000 people to their show in Washington DC on POPMART, Metallica current ARENA show in Washington DC is still not soldout and the capacity is only 19,000.
SO WHAT??????? You just missed the point of the post, that's all there is to it. I'm done.