Can you name any other artist that could
The Jonas Brothers.
Can you name any other artist that could
If during the last tour they played 3 nights in an arena with a maximum capacity of, say 25,000, and sold out each nightt I am willing to bet if they played in the same city but in a stadium with 75,000 for one night only they'd sell out the stadium.
I think George Strait sold out the new Dallas stadium for June.
The Jonas Brothers.
It's been done twice before for concerts at Scott Stadium: Dave Matthews Band in 2001 and The Rolling Stones in 2005. But it may be the toughest show on the tour to sell out.
Where exactly is the audience coming from? Charlottesville's population is less than 50,000 while the stadium holds over 60,000. It doesn't look like it's near any particularly massive centres of population - Richmond isn't exactly a massive city, and DC already has a show of its own.
U2 haven't played Virginia AT ALL since 1992, and previous gigs there have been at the Hampton Coliseum. Since then, fans have had to go to DC or NC. Now playing stadiums in all three of DC, Charlottesville, and Raleigh seems like overkill. Playing either VA or NC rather than both makes more sense to me.
Charlottesville is DC's 2nd show more or less.
Where exactly is the audience coming from? Charlottesville's population is less than 50,000 while the stadium holds over 60,000. It doesn't look like it's near any particularly massive centres of population - Richmond isn't exactly a massive city, and DC already has a show of its own.
Charlottesville is DC's 2nd show more or less.
I'm not sure if that population figure includes the 20k students. Richmond metro area has over a million I think, and there are some other universities within an hour. Live Nation's head of global touring lives in Charlottesville, so that certainly plays a role in bringing in big acts to the city.
Maybe for some western parts of the DC area, but in that case Philly could also be considered a 2nd DC show.
Charlottesville is a little podunk town that is considered part of the draw for LiveNation's DC area shed (Nissan Pavilion)
What I'd like to know is how the hell U2 plan to sell out Charlottesville when the venue holds more people than the entire population of the city.
DMB sold out Scott cause it's their hometown
SMB
DC itself only has 500,000 people, but the whole metro area (spilling into three states beyond the District, and really swallowing up all of Baltimore's metro area, too) is huge, plus the million or so people in Richmond's metro area. Especially if there's only one show for DC, there will be a lot of potential traffic for Charlottesville. Raleigh is kind of another story, though. I think that will be the most difficult show... although I'm really interested to see what numbers my home state churns out.Where exactly is the audience coming from? Charlottesville's population is less than 50,000 while the stadium holds over 60,000. It doesn't look like it's near any particularly massive centres of population - Richmond isn't exactly a massive city, and DC already has a show of its own.
U2 haven't played Virginia AT ALL since 1992, and previous gigs there have been at the Hampton Coliseum. Since then, fans have had to go to DC or NC. Now playing stadiums in all three of DC, Charlottesville, and Raleigh seems like overkill. Playing either VA or NC rather than both makes more sense to me.
Didn't they sell Reliant out?The Jonas Brothers? Their current show in Dallas at "Cowboys Stadium" is not even close to being soldout. Tickets for the show can still be purchased in the lower level. Plenty of $29.50 and $39.50 tickets available all over the stadium. Despite the cheap ticket price, they don't appear to be anywhere near a sellout.
U2's latest tour made nearly $20 million yesterday, quickly selling out the foursome's first three U.S. shows in Chicago, Boston and New York--raking in more in just a few hours than it did in the first three weeks after the release of its newest album.
Yesterday, U2's tour generated roughly $19,561,500 in ticket sales based on quick sellouts at Chicago's Soldier Field (65,000 seats), Boston's Gillette Stadium (72,000 seats), and New Jersey's Giants Stadium (82,000 seats)*.
Didn't they sell Reliant out?
Jonas brothers have never played an individual or headlining concert at Reliant stadium in Houston, nor are they scheduled to on their current tour. They do have a show at the much smaller basketball arena the Toyota Center in Houston.
The Jonas Brothers did open up for Miley Cyrus on her 2007/2008 tour. That tour did play the annual festival Texas Rodeo that happens every year at Relient Stadium and is soldout every year regardless of whether or not there are any music artist performing.
Not only have the Jonas Brothers not soldout the Reliant Stadium in Houston or any stadium in Texas, they have never soldout a football stadium anywhere in the United States.
A better question would be "why would a city build a stadium that holds more than the city's population?". Clearly not everyone in the city is a sports fan or a fan of whatever team plays there. And even fewer people are fans of artists that choose to perform at that venue.
So the answer is pretty obvious: the draw from surrounding cities is large enough to make up the difference.
Thats not just George Strait, its the following:
George Strait
Reba McEntire
Blake Shelton
Julianne Hough
Take away those three artist playing with him, and place him with one relatively unknown artist, and he might not be playing the stadium let alone selling it out. Reba McEntire has sold over 40 million albums in the United States. The idea that Reba McEntire could be considered an opening act is absurd. But, there are actually still single tickets left for the show, and it is in a conventional set up with no seats behind the stage used.
Jonas brothers have never played an individual or headlining concert at Reliant stadium in Houston, nor are they scheduled to on their current tour. They do have a show at the much smaller basketball arena the Toyota Center in Houston.
The Jonas Brothers did open up for Miley Cyrus on her 2007/2008 tour. That tour did play the annual festival Texas Rodeo that happens every year at Relient Stadium and is soldout every year regardless of whether or not there are any music artist performing.
Not only have the Jonas Brothers not soldout the Reliant Stadium in Houston or any stadium in Texas, they have never soldout a football stadium anywhere in the United States.
Can you name any other artist that could?
By the end of October, U2 may have the two highest grossing concerts in the history of Texas.