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Originally posted by KangBey
Can Adele gross over $230 million from one tour, can she do a stadium tour. All of which is more impressive than a diamond album.
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Considering Adele has an unprecedented demand for touring, yes she can. More demand than anyone else:
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Approximately 10 million people attempted to purchase Adele tickets when they went on sale Thursday, that according to a Ticketmaster memo that was sent to employees after ticketless fans lashed out at the ticketing service when the singer's 2016 U.S. tour quickly sold out.
"I know it must be frustrating to read or see in the news that we crashed during Adele’s onsale and that fans are upset with [Ticketmaster] because they couldn't get tickets," Ticketmaster president Jared Smith wrote in the memo that was obtained by Billboard. "Unfortunately, when there is such a exceptional artist with unprecedented demand against short supply, there are inevitably going to be disappointed fans."
The bottleneck for Adele tickets was highlighted by the singer's six-night stand at New York's Madison Square Garden, where an estimated 4 million people vied for the roughly 100,000 available tickets to the series of concerts. After languishing in Ticketmaster's waiting room, the majority of those fans went away empty-handed as the six shows sold out in under an hour, a source told Billboard.
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The highest grossing tour of all time (U2 360 tour) had about 7 million people in attendance and out-grossed all of our faves, so Adele could easily smash that.
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OT: If I'm gonna be real, most of our faves are overhyped/overrated. Any artist who achieves mainstream success will be. That doesn't mean they aren't talented or don't live up to the hype necessarily, it's just that there so many people with equal and more talent that never achieve commercial success.
