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, and we’ve summarized them here for you.
This week, we will take a look at Manchester in the UK and see how much they like going to live shows. It might be a bit unfair to do that by checking the numbers on some big acts like Black Sabbath or Red Hot Chili Peppers, but we’ll throw some smaller metal acts at the end. Just for fun and to create contrast. These are the bands that require their own large crew to tour:
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Jack Irons
Venue: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Date: Feb. 15th, 17th-18th, 2017
Gross Sales: $4,287,735
Attendance/Capacity: 45,218 / 45,218
Ticket Prices: $105, $55
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers and BABYMETAL
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Dec. 14th, 2016
Gross Sales: $2,356,080
Attendance/Capacity: 29,936 / 32,339
Ticket Prices: $101.47, $57.08
Artist: Black Sabbath and Rival Sons
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Jan. 22nd, 2017
Gross Sales: $1,336,720
Attendance/Capacity: 14,886 / 15,425
Ticket Prices: $117.53, $74.23
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Jack Irons
Venue: Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
Date: Feb. 10th, 2017
Gross Sales: $1,334,965
Attendance/Capacity: 14,668 / 14,668
Ticket Prices: $102.50, $52.50
Artist: Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed and In Flames
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Jan. 16th, 2017
Gross Sales: $490,920
Attendance/Capacity: 9,044 / 10,569
Ticket Prices: $54.81, $45.67
Artist: Korn, Limp Bizkit and Madball
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Dec. 12th, 2016
Gross Sales: $433,645
Attendance/Capacity: 7,311 / 9,055
Ticket Prices: $60.97, $49.66
Artist: Bring Me The Horizon, Don Broco and Basement
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Nov. 08th, 2016
Gross Sales: $284,069
Attendance/Capacity: 6,528 / 8,027
Ticket Prices: $49.72, $43.51
Artist: Alter Bridge, Volbeat, Gojira and Like A Storm
Venue: Manchester, UK – Manchester Arena
Date: Nov. 23rd, 2016
Gross Sales: $254,551
Attendance/Capacity: 6,808 / 8,307
Ticket Prices: $43.61, $37.38
You may have noticed there’s some NY dates in there and that’s because knowing that the Red Hot Chili Peppers can sell out the can Madison Square Garden is a nice random fact to know. Manchester seems to be fairly supportive of the bands rolling into their town and that’s good. Touring the UK is not cheap of you see those ticket prices per show.
[Via theprp.com]
