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Originally posted by Kayzan
1. She only performed once in Belfast with the CDT. She did twice with PWT. 9k < 18k
2. You're still acting like this is her biggest market. Just be ready cause I'm gonna coming for you when the first US artRave boxscores are out and of course I want to see your face when the Oceania PWT boxscores come out.
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Why are you threatening me? Nothing in my posts has been rude and I've done nothing but break down the numbers to show that on average so far less people are showing up for this tour than they did the last tour.
You guys keep bringing up Australia, but this has nothing to do with Australia. People are talking about these boxscores being poor, not Australia's boxscores. Additionally, bringing up the artRAVE makes no sense. If you can use the "UK isn't Katy's biggest market" defense, then can't monsters say the US isn't Gaga's biggest market as a defense? Unless that argument doesn't apply to anyone other than Katy. Isn't Katy the biggest popstar in the world? That's what you guys say over and over again, yet she's not selling out like popstars at their peak should. 'Roar' was a big hit in the UK and her album sold decently, yet here we have pretty nasty boxscores. You can twist that all you want, but the truth is that she's doing poorly so far, which is a bad way to start off the tour.
If you guys "knew these shows would do poorly," then why are you so mad at people pointing it out?
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Originally posted by Kkamjong
Having a higher attendance =/= selling more unless you're strictly talking about attendance.
Any company in the world would rather have fewer customers that are willing to pay more (resulting in higher profit) than many more customers that aren't willing to pay much (less profit).
Take all of these diamond companies selling jewelry for $50,000 a piece. Can most people afford that? No. But they make enough money from the rich people buying it than they would if they lowered their prices to make it more available for the rest.
Money earned >>>>>> Attendance
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That is not true in any way, shape, or form. All companies want more customers.
Companies like McDonald's, Walmart, etc. aren't the biggest companies in the world because they sell expensive things to a select number of customers, they're the biggest companies because they sell cheap things to everyone.
Touring is all about bringing people in. It is also about bringing money in, but at the end of the day if you can't keep bringing people in, you will lose money. Katy is showing a decline in audience in the UK specifically, which means less people are interested. This doesn't bode well for the future. But hey, she has Australia so maybe next time she'll ignore the UK and just play in Australia.