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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77
And I don't like NIN, so I skipped past that. And does NIN fill arenas still?
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yes, they do. when they are in arenas they also have part of the floor GA standing so they definitely pack way more than FM does. i saw them in same arenas as the Mac but with GA floors back in 2013-14 (touring album on which LB played, actually). then they did a summer shed tour with Soundgarden a year after.
however, as i'm sure you are aware, Trent Reznor likes to experiment with different approaches and different venues. so their last tour was a mixture of arenas, multiple nights in small theaters, large festivals, and several nights smaller to mid-size venues with huge GA floors like the Anthem in DC. this was the tour when they were going back to basics and tickets were initially going on sale at the box office before opening online, to try and avoid big online scalper bots. so it had people standing in line for tickets for like 24 hours, at least for initial dates.
remember in their heyday NIN "opened" for David Bowie, even though they very much more commercially successful than he was at the time. but Trent insisted that Bowie is the main act. Bowie would tell funny stories about that tour, how everyone would leave after NIn was done and he would come on to half-empty arena, with just Trent there in the stands clapping enthusiastically.
so to answer your initial question - yeah, NIN still packs more audiences than FM does. but their prices are not nearly as crazy, because they are not into scalping people.