If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, including rock and metal ones, and we’ve summarized them here for you.
This week, we bring some of your usual touring bands from big names to smaller acts but we also have the numbers for the annual Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival, which we’re going to put at the bottom so you look at the embarrassing amounts of money the rest of the bunch made. These are the acts who made their dreams to make money playing music instead of working at Wal-mart:
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots & Dreamers
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Apr. 28th, 2015
Gross Sales: $65,824
Attendance/Capacity: 2,034 / 2,221
Ticket Prices: $32
Artist: The Story So Far, Terror, Four Year Strong & Souvenirs
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: May 22nd, 2015
Gross Sales: $49,727
Attendance/Capacity: 2,212 / 2,353
Ticket Prices: $22
Artist: The Used, Every Time I Die, Marmozets & The Eeries
Venue: Boston, MA – House Of Blues
Date: Apr. 29th, 2015
Gross Sales: $30,192
Attendance/Capacity: 1,083 / 1,194
Ticket Prices: $28
Artist: Monster Magnet & Bombus
Venue: Bremen, GER – Schlachthof
Date: Feb. 25th, 2015
Gross Sales: $26,511
Attendance/Capacity: 859 / 900
Ticket Prices: $39.65, $30.59
Artist: Moonspell & Septicflesh
Venue: Dresden, GER – Reithalle
Date: Mar. 17th, 2015
Gross Sales: $4,655
Attendance/Capacity: 199 / 500
Ticket Prices: $26.35, $23.19
Artist: Sebastian Bach
Venue: Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
Date: Jul. 07th, 2015
Gross Sales: $7,125
Attendance/Capacity: 344 / 700
Ticket Prices: $25, $20
Artist: ‘Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival‘ AC/DC, Jack White, Drake, etc.
Venue: Indio, CA – Empire Polo Field
Date: Apr. 10th-12th, 17th-19th, 2015
Gross Sales: $84,264,264
Attendance/Capacity: 198,000 / 198,000
Ticket Prices: $899, $375
At some point, almost 200,000 hippies paid $84,000,000 collectively to get high on the desert while listening to Paul McCartney and AC/DC, making it the highest-grossing festival in the world. We got a video reenactment of the organizers once they saw the final numbers this year.
[via theprp.com]
