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Celeb News: 'The Born This Way Ball Tour' Starring Lady Gaga
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I really hope next world tour
price tickets will be more expensive....
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When doctor’s orders led to the cancellation of Lady Gaga's “Born This Way Ball” tour yesterday, producers Live Nation Global Touring immediately began the formidable task of shutting down one of the most successful pop tours ever.
Through Jan. 17, the “BTWB” tour had grossed $168.2 million and moved 1.6 million tickets to 85 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore, with Asia, Europe, and South American legs already completed in 2012. The North American leg, which was to wrap the tour and was almost completely sold out, would have likely put the tour at more than $200 million gross, easily in the top 20 tours of all time and probably in the top 15. As it stands, Gaga finished sixth among all touring artists in 2012, with a gross of $125 million and attendance of more than 1.1 million, according to Boxscore.
But, when the best-laid plans meet physiology, touring professionals must begin a complicated, multi-faceted decompression process. Buildings are notified, press releases prepared, and the massive production shuts down, with the complex logistics of getting about 130 cast and crew, along with mountains of staging and production gear, all back to their respective homes now well underway.
Live Nation Global Touring chairman Arthur Fogel calls the cancellation “a tremendous disappointment for her, for her fans, for all of the people in the touring party— the crew, the staff, the band, the performers, the dancers— and for my team.”
Remarkably nonplussed in the face of the task at hand for the Live Nation Global Touring team (which is also promoting tours by Rihanna and Beyonce this year, among others), Fogel calls the cancellation a situation where “the entertainment business intersects with the realities of life, and the glamorous perception of what touring is like is replaced by the reality that it’s tough,” he tells Billboard.biz. “It’s tough for anybody, but [for] the more physical performer—and she certainly is one—it’s that much tougher. I feel terrible for her; it’s a difficult situation. But it’s just one of those things that can’t be controlled, and we just deal with what we have to deal with.”
The cancellation of Gaga's tour is not a situation with which Fogel is unfamiliar. A similar unfortunate scenario arose during the record-setting U2 “360” tour in 2010 when Bono’s back surgery forced the postponement of 16 stadium shows, with 1 million tickets worth about $100 million already sold. Ultimately, the dates were rescheduled for the following year, 97% of tickets were held onto by fans, the rest were moved quickly, and 360 went on to become the highest grossing tour in history at more than $736 million, according to Boxscore.
But “360” was a postponement and Gaga's situation is a cancellation. That said, the cancellation is far from a financial disaster. Fogel declined to discuss specifics of “BTWB,” but in a typical situation, as an industry standard, a major tour such as this would be covered by various levels of insurance, including such things as the significant out-of-pocket expenses to shut the tour down, advertising costs, and lost revenues for both performer and promoter.
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-at-the-damage
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you are so obsessed with gaga 
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Originally posted by hugox
I really hope next world tour
price tickets will be more expensive....
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Hells no.
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When does the success depend on searching results more than album/tour sales? This makes not any sense and the report basically lost a standard since she was on media blackout and focused on the tour while the FLOP tour grossed 180 million with 98 shows, which is the 7th most successful tour by a female artist and 23rd most lucrative tour in history.
Shade the queen of the universe? You tried.
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Originally posted by netoschultz
When doctor’s orders led to the cancellation of Lady Gaga's “Born This Way Ball” tour yesterday, producers Live Nation Global Touring immediately began the formidable task of shutting down one of the most successful pop tours ever.
Through Jan. 17, the “BTWB” tour had grossed $168.2 million and moved 1.6 million tickets to 85 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore, with Asia, Europe, and South American legs already completed in 2012. The North American leg, which was to wrap the tour and was almost completely sold out, would have likely put the tour at more than $200 million gross, easily in the top 20 tours of all time and probably in the top 15. As it stands, Gaga finished sixth among all touring artists in 2012, with a gross of $125 million and attendance of more than 1.1 million, according to Boxscore.
But, when the best-laid plans meet physiology, touring professionals must begin a complicated, multi-faceted decompression process. Buildings are notified, press releases prepared, and the massive production shuts down, with the complex logistics of getting about 130 cast and crew, along with mountains of staging and production gear, all back to their respective homes now well underway.
Live Nation Global Touring chairman Arthur Fogel calls the cancellation “a tremendous disappointment for her, for her fans, for all of the people in the touring party— the crew, the staff, the band, the performers, the dancers— and for my team.” [/B]
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-at-the-damage
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Do the math:
Roughly 200,000 tickets sold for the remaining 22 dates that were cancelled due to a hip injury (!).
200,000 / 22 = 9,090 tickets sold per show.
Yup! You read that right.
In an article written to suggest Lady Gaga’s tour was a success and cancelling the remaining dates was a loss for everybody, Billboard inadvertently revealed that Lady Gaga sold an average of 9,090 tickets per show.
If you have any common sense, you would agree that this is more than enough of an excuse to cancel those shows due to poor ticket sales.
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Originally posted by Jay Park
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i said more expensive to have a bigger gross 
In France, price tickets were not very expensive ...
that s why i said that.
i don t know the situation in USA
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Originally posted by fashadonia
Billboard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You left the juicy part
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1. 21 shows were cancelled, not 22.
2. Billboard put a "roughly" before "200,000". It obviously isn't the exactly amount of tickets which were sold until that time.
3. Billboard states in the same article "The North American leg (...) was almost completely sold out." So?
4. You're just pressed and cannot accept the fact the Born This Way Ball is "one of the most successful pop tours ever."
5. Enjoy your warning points and bye.
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Originally posted by fashadonia
Billboard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You left the juicy part
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Now, wait. Billboard is infallible and 100% accurate now? What happened to you lot mocking their laughably incorrect figures?
Naturally, an off hand and vague number in an article is correct whilst the official audience reports were not. 
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Oh wow, fashadonia is so pressed I'm actually embarrassed for them.
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Fashadonia you're making yourself look pathetic 
like seriously
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Originally posted by hugox
i said more expensive to have a bigger gross
In France, price tickets were not very expensive ...
that s why i said that.
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I'd rather the tickets be affordable. More people will want to go if they aren't paying an arm and leg to go.
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Fashadonia, your more obsessed with Gaga then I am.
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4. You're just pressed and cannot accept the fact the Born This Way Ball is "one of the most successful pop tours ever."
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According to the Rio newspaper O Dia , the numbers are more alarming in Rio de Janeiro, where the show will be held at Rock City, a huge space with capacity for up to 100,000 people, as could be seen at Rock in Rio 2011. There are not enough sales to 14 thousand tickets, the 86,000 available.
In Săo Paulo, the demand was higher but did not exceed half of the total capacity of Morumbi for the show on Sunday, 11: were 33,000, 67,000 of available, according to the blog Popoload , reported earlier in the week. Sought by Rolling Stone Brazil , the T4F advises that does not disclose the number of official ticket sales.
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com...#ixzz2LQLll600
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****Quickly check 'Thesaurus.com' and search for the word.... "discount" ! ******
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Maybe you should book yourself an appointment with your doctor with all these delusions you've been having? This can't be healthy. 
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I love Gaga stans here. They are so classy and patient with all these attempts to spread lies about The EPIC BTWB.
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I see people are still coming for the tour, which we now know that is one of the most successful tours of all time. I will never get enough joy from typing this. Begone pests, go seethe on your facebook, twitter and/or grindr.
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Lady Gaga, The Darkness, Lady Starlight
Estadio do Morumbi
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nov. 11, 2012
$4,293,859
43,137 / 43,137
1 / 1
$366.59, $46.43
Live Nation Global Touring/Live Nation Latin America/T4F-Time For Fun
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Lady Gaga, The Darkness, Lady Starlight
Parque dos Atletas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nov. 9, 2012
$2,218,846
26,167 / 26,167
1 / 1
$366.60, $43.99
Live Nation Global Touring/Live Nation Latin America/T4F-Time For Fun
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Madonna, Gui Boratto
Estadio do Morumbi
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dec. 4-5, 2012
$8,430,677
85,255 / 85,255
2 / 2
$403.72, $40.37
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85,255 / 2 = 42,628.
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85,255 / 2 = 42,628.
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...still not on the list of Top 10 Highest-Grossing Concert Tours of All Time. Nice try...btw.
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