U2's INSANE Ticket Prices- Have You Seen Them????

[Musicman408]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Clearly people don't care what they pay as long as they go... They have a huge fan base like everywhere! Check out these numbers. Massive shows, huge gross per city, but the average works out to roughly $100 a ticket. Roughly 55 million... It took Fleetwood Mac 55 shows to do that this year.

It's interesting that these bands can sell out these massive stadiums overseas and don't do all that many stadium shows here in North America... I wonder what the mentality difference is when it comes to seeing stadium shows versus arena shows for fans... Or is it a question of what promoters have their hands on in terms of venues over here.

1 U2, Kaiser Chiefs Stade De France
Paris, France
July 11-12, 2009
$20,902,760
186,544 /
186,544
2 /
2
$347.91, $41.75
Live Nation Global Touring/Gerard Drouot Productions/Live Nation France

2 U2, Snow Patrol Camp Nou
Barcelona, Spain
June 30, July 2, 2009
$19,825,497
182,055 /
182,055
2 /
2
$210.33, $77.12
Live Nation Global Touring/Doctor Music/Live Nation Spain

3 U2, Snow Patrol Stadio San Siro
Milan, Italy
July 7-8, 2009
$15,168,799
153,806 /
153,806
2 /
2
$347.32, $41.68
Live Nation Global Touring/Live Nation Italy

That kind of money- that's just ridiculous!!!! It's actually kind of sickening when you really think about it.