intedomine said:Yeah, that run down is very flawed. The Melbourne venue was configured to cater for 65,000 fans, and only 29,000 of us rocked up to the gig. They didn't even sell half the tickets they were hoping to.
And the Brisbane venue had a capacity of 50,000, not 25,000
The Cricket Ground in Melbourne may be able to hold 65,000 or more people for a rock concert, but the promoter Arthur Fogel only released, over time, 29,655 tickets for sale and all of them were sold which is why the concert gets the industry label "soldout".
If there were any tickets that were released that were not sold, the boxscore results would have looked similar to the result in Hamburg Germany on this tour:
September 11, 2007
Hamburg, Germany
AOL ARENA
Capacity: 34,596
Attendance: 29,150
Gross: $3,191,128
Average Ticket Price: $109.47
A total of 34,596 tickets were released for the Hamburg AOL ARENA concert of which 29,150 were sold. The 34,596 tickets was likely the initial allotment that the promoter went with went tickets were initially released. The AOL ARENA in Hamburg has a potential capacity of over 50,000 for a rock concert, but initially only 34,596 tickets were released, and no more because they were never able to sellout the initial amount of tickets released.
As I said in the begining of the above posting:
"CAPACITY is set by the promoter and sometimes is not the FULL CAPACITY of the Venue being played. "Sold Out" refers to the sell of each ticket made available for sale, and does not, necessarily, refer to the selling of each potential seat in the venue being played."
Every artist may hope to sell more by releasing more tickets to the general public, but the promoter will only release what they think is the most conservative number and then adjust the number of tickets available as sales continue or increase. If all tickets that the promoter releases or sold, then the concert is recorded as a sellout, regardless of what the real full physical capacity of the venue may be.
Here is the latest top 10 Boxscore from Billboard.com. Notice the capacity levels for two shows by the Police at the Tokyo Dome and one show at the Osaka Dome. Multiple shows at the same venue have their figures combined.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/boxscore.jsp