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2019-11-08 - Auckland
 Tour: Joshua Tree Tour 2019
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  1. I'm still baffled how the first show could sell out in a couple of minutes but there's barely any interest in the 2nd show. That says there was HUGE demand but it was matched by supply and only a few thousand missed out. If the sellout took 2-3 hours or days, I'd get it; but not 2-3 minutes. That usually indicates there were many who missed out but that isn't backed up by those maps. Very odd.
  2. Yep, very odd indeed.
  3. It's not that odd. Let's say that interest for the Auckland shows accumulates to around 40k people. You have no problems selling a show in minutes for 30k. So you think let's go for a second one. But then there are only 10k left.

    It's not as-is everyone who buys show 1 tickets also wants to go to two shows, no casual fan would do that.
  4. I guess the real surprise is that there isn’t enough people to meet the demand of 2 shows. A lot of that has to do with ticket prices I feel but I think Auckland has a capacity of 47,000 so 94,000 over 2 nights in a country they haven’t played for a while you would think they could achieve that. I was shocked to see just how many tickets were left, it’s looking like they’ll be doing well to get the second night 75% sold even so I reckon they’re going to achieve more like 80-85k all in which isn’t a disaster but it’s going to look poor on night 2.
  5. It might still sell out. They still have months to drop prices.
  6. Originally posted by deanallison:I guess the real surprise is that there isn’t enough people to meet the demand of 2 shows. A lot of that has to do with ticket prices I feel but I think Auckland has a capacity of 47,000 so 94,000 over 2 nights in a country they haven’t played for a while you would think they could achieve that. I was shocked to see just how many tickets were left, it’s looking like they’ll be doing well to get the second night 75% sold even so I reckon they’re going to achieve more like 80-85k all in which isn’t a disaster but it’s going to look poor on night 2.
    Most stadium concerts don't sell out immediately there is so many other big acts touring more frequently since the demise of physical album sales over the last decade, a lot of tickets will sell in the weeks leading up to the tour a lot of people will be watching for price drops and they will step up the marketing campaign via Internet, TV and Radio.
  7. I don’t doubt that more tickets will shift nearer the time but I still look at the seating map and think they won’t get rid of that many tickets. Time will tell but I’d be very surprised if they get anywhere near a sell out for night 2.
  8. Originally posted by deanallison:I guess the real surprise is that there isn’t enough people to meet the demand of 2 shows. A lot of that has to do with ticket prices I feel but I think Auckland has a capacity of 47,000 so 94,000 over 2 nights in a country they haven’t played for a while you would think they could achieve that. I was shocked to see just how many tickets were left, it’s looking like they’ll be doing well to get the second night 75% sold even so I reckon they’re going to achieve more like 80-85k all in which isn’t a disaster but it’s going to look poor on night 2.
    Auckland is a fairly small city, is a small country. I'd say it normally punches well above its weight, when it comes to the number of tickets sold. Not much bigger than Adelaide, but selling far more tickets. Substantially smaller than both Brisbane & Perth, but selling more tickets than them on most occasions (not more than Perth for 360).

    The North Island of NZ has a population that's not a lot less than Queensland, in an area less than 10% it's size. That's population density has got to help with getting people travelling from regional areas & other cities. But not that many people would I suppose.

    As we're all saying, it's the price of tickets that's slowing things down this time. They're expensive, especially for a stadium show! But that's common nowadays, with this bloody dynamic pricing phenomenon. I'd expect prices to reduce over time, & hope we'll get near a sell out crowd by show time.
  9. The dynamic pricing phenomenon is partially to blame, but the fact there are plenty of GAs (GAs! always the most longed-for tickets - and one type that's not subject to dynamic pricing) available for several of these shows tells a different story, one about demand and band relevance.
  10. Must admit I'm a bit surprised, but the prices are way too high. I guess the savvy locals will wait til last minute and start hoovering up heavily discounted tickets
  11. Originally posted by LikeASong:The dynamic pricing phenomenon is partially to blame, but the fact there are plenty of GAs (GAs! always the most longed-for tickets - and one type that's not subject to dynamic pricing) available for several of these shows tells a different story, one about demand and band relevance.
    The band are definitely slowly but surely getting less popular. They’re still massive but there’s some places where they are playing only 1 night and they can’t even sell out GA there. It’s just one of they things, how many rock bands out there could play a stadium tour these days and sell well? A few but not too many I would say and definitely not worldwide. I’ve already noticed looking back at figures from the 2017 tour they’ve tried to cover up sales by doing things like 45,000/45,000 (rough numbers) indicating it’s a sell out when in fact the venue holds 60,000. 45k is still good going but it’s not quite the type of demand they would be hoping for I’m sure, yet the gigs and the tours will still make plenty of money.
  12. Is the U2 tour clashing time-wise with any other big tours in this part of the world ?
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