So yeah, I can’t sleep and stay away. Help me, oh God.
Strand, my theory is that these days Stevie is basically a secondary version of FM to the public. The attendance during the Enchanted tour was lower than usual because it came right after The Dance. TISL tour drew bigger crowds because FM hadn’t been touring for a while.
Finally, let’s not forget that you’re still talking as Americans and while the USA is the best place for any bigger band to tour, there’s other places in the world you know.
Stevie has never been a big thing in Europe as a solo act, not even the success of “Rooms On Fire” could establish her in the old world. The UK shows went well for FM, alright. But the four Germany shows weren’t that much, two of them were played to half-empty arenas and they had to cancel one of the planned five because not enough tickets were sold. I think Chris’ presence would have helped the band a lot more here; she always had the European hits anyway.
I respect Stevie’s goodwill anyway; she’s the one who wanted to bring TISL tour to Europe and probably wanted the European leg to happen all along. But in the parts of the world that are not USA, I think SYW has sold significantly more copies than TISL. I don’t have the numbers, so I’m just a-speculatin’.
