3.20.13 We Are Glamily Tour in St. Petersburg Russia
Mar 20, 2013 17:25:31 GMT -5
Post by Craazyforadam on Mar 20, 2013 17:25:31 GMT -5
The attendence for the tour was phantastic.
No need to talk about Asia, everybody can see page 1, and ticket prices were steep for a lot of folks there too, btw.
Yet, he had tons of places sold out and every concert except one had very high attendence.
Then came Europe and again, it's good news:
Minsk was almost sold out, and then they had a storm that even for White-Russia (which is what Belarus means translated) was totally unusual. Believe me, in that part of the world they don't usually name snow storms, and their traffic does not come to a standstill because of snow. Otherwise this country would be shut down for 6 months out of the year. It's like Wisconsin or North Dakota or something like that. Life goes on. If that country shuts down, it makes the news and this storm made all the front pages of local news that day. Yet, in spite of that the arena was around 60 - 80 percent full, based on the pictures. That is amazing.
Moscow was well attended. Was it 80 %? I don't know, but it was a reasonably high number. An avg annual wage in Moscow is 1.15 mill RUB. In St. P. it is around 950K. So, the ticket prices were high, but not different than other major acts coming through these bigger cities.
St. Petersburg there was lower attendance because a) local intimidation probably did keep a few people away and b) a venue of 12,000 was probably not the right choice for the city. It would also not have been the right choice in any other European city outside of Helsinki. Would he even sell 12,000 seats in London? Just think about it. So far he was only in venues of 2-3000 max, most were in the 800 - 1000 range in Europe.
Finally, the one city where I think prices were really too high for the average person was Kiev. I did not hear any attendance numbers, but it looked reasonably full on pictures and that is amazing given how expensive it seems to have been.
Overall, Adam did extremly well on this tour and I would be surprised, if the message for any promoter is not: Independent of album sales, Adam can attract a good crowd at concerts, given the artist he is. And that is great news. Hopefully, this will make people in South America and the US get more confident that it can work there too, because I am sure it can.
ETA: I think in the previous posts a few numbers got mixed up between RUB and $. I will try to get some numbers later, but next 2-3 hours, I am busy. Avg. annual salaries for Moscow and St. P. I have posted (they are from 2012/13), somebody can dig up the ticket price range and we should be able to get it all answered.
No need to talk about Asia, everybody can see page 1, and ticket prices were steep for a lot of folks there too, btw.
Yet, he had tons of places sold out and every concert except one had very high attendence.
Then came Europe and again, it's good news:
Minsk was almost sold out, and then they had a storm that even for White-Russia (which is what Belarus means translated) was totally unusual. Believe me, in that part of the world they don't usually name snow storms, and their traffic does not come to a standstill because of snow. Otherwise this country would be shut down for 6 months out of the year. It's like Wisconsin or North Dakota or something like that. Life goes on. If that country shuts down, it makes the news and this storm made all the front pages of local news that day. Yet, in spite of that the arena was around 60 - 80 percent full, based on the pictures. That is amazing.
Moscow was well attended. Was it 80 %? I don't know, but it was a reasonably high number. An avg annual wage in Moscow is 1.15 mill RUB. In St. P. it is around 950K. So, the ticket prices were high, but not different than other major acts coming through these bigger cities.
St. Petersburg there was lower attendance because a) local intimidation probably did keep a few people away and b) a venue of 12,000 was probably not the right choice for the city. It would also not have been the right choice in any other European city outside of Helsinki. Would he even sell 12,000 seats in London? Just think about it. So far he was only in venues of 2-3000 max, most were in the 800 - 1000 range in Europe.
Finally, the one city where I think prices were really too high for the average person was Kiev. I did not hear any attendance numbers, but it looked reasonably full on pictures and that is amazing given how expensive it seems to have been.
Overall, Adam did extremly well on this tour and I would be surprised, if the message for any promoter is not: Independent of album sales, Adam can attract a good crowd at concerts, given the artist he is. And that is great news. Hopefully, this will make people in South America and the US get more confident that it can work there too, because I am sure it can.
ETA: I think in the previous posts a few numbers got mixed up between RUB and $. I will try to get some numbers later, but next 2-3 hours, I am busy. Avg. annual salaries for Moscow and St. P. I have posted (they are from 2012/13), somebody can dig up the ticket price range and we should be able to get it all answered.
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