Idols In Concert – Stats – 07/28/11

By On 07/28/2011 · 68 Comments · In American Idol, Charts

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I am so glad that AEG is back that I could kiss their dalmatian (as John McLane might say). Last week I was thrilled to see concert stats for the first two weeks of concerts. This week, they posted another week of stats. I love them this big! Three more sold out concerts and 97% of tickets in general sold. This is the daily numbers thread.

American Idol Live Tour Season 10:
July 19, 2011: Oklahoma City, Okla.: Cox Convention Center : 6,910 of 7,391 (93%) : $385,210
July 20, 2011: Grand Prairie, Texas : Verizon Theatre : 6,018 of 6,018 (100%) : $339,330
July 21, 2011: Houston, Texas : Live Reliant Arena : 6,790 of 6,790 (100%): $380,170
July 22, 2011: New Orleans, La. : Lakefront Arena : 5,525 of 5,525 (100%) : $326,525
July 24, 2011: Orlando, Fla.: Amway Center : 10,791 of 11,296 (96%) : $564,395

For this Report
Number of Dates Reported: 5
Number of Sell-Outs: 3 (60%)
Total Tickets Sold: 35,034
Total Tickets Available: 37,020
Percentage of Tickets Sold: 97%

Total Revenue: $1,995,630
Average Revenue Per Concert: $399,126
Average Tickets Sold Per Concert: 7207
Average Ticket Price: $55.38
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Total To Date:
Number of Dates Reported: 14
Number of Sell-Outs: 6 (43%)
Total Tickets Sold: 109,999
Total Tickets Available: 113,905
Percentage of Tickets Sold: 97%

Total Revenue: $6,052,930
Average Revenue Per Concert: $432,352
Average Tickets Sold Per Concert: 7857
Average Ticket Price: $55.03


Last week’s report

 
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  • adolf_hipster

    Pia’s update:

    232 85 PIA TOSCANO This Time 72 6 66 0.218

  • Elliegrll

    It seems weird to me, if they are going to push her in NY. Typically, they set add dates about a month in advance so they can start their campaigns to the PDs before the official add date. If NY is the plan, I would expect them to announce an add date soon. Actually, I would have expected them to have announced it already.

    Aside from sending Pia out to radio interviews, we don’t know what Interscope is doing behind the scenes to promote her. The same is true with Lauren, whose song was pretty much stagnant for three or four weeks, so much so that it was removed from BDS/Billboard’s country chart.

    Maybe, Interscope is learning that radio stations aren’t just going to play a song just because someone was on AI.

  • Listening

    Elliegrll, Thanks for answering I totally missed that sales chart post. :P

  • Montavilla

    I’m still hoping that promotion for “This Time” hasn’t really kicked in yet, and I agree that when the tour hits NYC THAT’S when the real push will start.

    I’m confused about this strategy. Is this the strategy? Or just what we’re assuming is the strategy?

    I thought that hometown pride was muted in the big cities — since they produce other big names and have a more blasé attitude toward celebrity. Or is that just L.A.?

  • gangreen29

    I firmly beleive the problems from S9 are a result of no one behind the scenes having a rooting interest in the show surviving and thriving. When Nigel left 19 lost its voice in production. The show was being run day to day by Simon and Ken Warwick, who works for Fremantle which is part of the X Factor production. The season was cast around uncharismatic people who all seemed to have similar performing styles and whose singing quality was much below the idol standard.

  • halo9125

    I thought that hometown pride was muted in the big cities — since they produce other big names and have a more blasé attitude toward celebrity. Or is that just L.A.?

    One would think here in NYC we’re a bit more jaded- but demand for the Idols tour (and don’t get me wrong all, I’m not saying that this has everything to do with Pia) was large enough for them to add a second show at the Nassau Coliseum and I THINK at the Prudential Center in Newark- that’s 4 shows in what I would call the Tri-State area.

  • Valentin432

    IMO, Pia’s dropping off the Top 1000 is a bad sign even without radio airplay.

    There are many more ways to hear a song than radio nowadays, word of mouth is easily spread via social networking sites and she’s getting some exposure on tv.

    If you look at successfull songs charting on itunes, they first come up very high then they stabilize at a level that is above what their current level of radio airplay should maintain them.
    For instance, look at Remind Me, it has been charting in the 20′s on itunes for weeks now independently of the increasing radio airplay.

    It’s kind of a hidden mechanism here that is hard to quantify but that is becoming more and more relevant IMO.

    All that to say, This Time not stabilizing somewhere on itunes is a bad omen.

  • http://emuisemo.pbworks.com eilonwy

    There are many more ways to hear a song than radio nowadays, word of mouth is easily spread via social networking sites and she’s getting some exposure on tv.

    Thing is, for social networking to build sales, there has to be a network of Toscano fans who are spreading the word outside AI fandom.

    Unless her fandom is dramatically different from what I’ve seen for other Idol alum, AI fans tend to network with other AI fans — that is, with people who already know about the current crop of Idols and have formed opinions of them.

    That kind of loyal cadre can do some pushing on some of the social media tracked by Next Big Sound — e.g., play the song a lot on various music services — so that it gets a higher visible ranking that might be noticed by outsiders.

    But the kind of buzz that arguably successful artists like Bon Iver get without big singles comes from fans on more general music sites or with diverse non-fan social networks sharing broad music interests with one another. (Not “OMG, my fave musician is the best!” but “Yeah, musician X reminds me of Y and you might think he’s cool.”) That kind of word-of-mouth seems difficult for Idol alum to get their fans to generate. Without it, attracting new listeners does depend on mass media like radio.

  • Montavilla

    One would think here in NYC we’re a bit more jaded- but demand for the Idols tour (and don’t get me wrong all, I’m not saying that this has everything to do with Pia) was large enough for them to add a second show at the Nassau Coliseum and I THINK at the Prudential Center in Newark- that’s 4 shows in what I would call the Tri-State area.

    That’s pretty cool. I would have thought NYC would be, as you say, jaded. Maybe it helps that a number of Idol alumni have had successful Broadway runs. And that “theatrical” is no longer a dirty word in Idol land.

  • tinawina

    But the kind of buzz that arguably successful artists like Bon Iver get without big singles comes from fans on more general music sites or with diverse non-fan social networks sharing broad music interests with one another. (Not “OMG, my fave musician is the best!” but “Yeah, musician X reminds me of Y and you might think he’s cool.”) That kind of word-of-mouth seems difficult for Idol alum to get their fans to generate. Without it, attracting new listeners does depend on mass media like radio.

    I totally agree. I think that is part of that often repeated meme about the need to break out of “the bubble”… you need to get the regular music buying community to be interested before you can get that kind of chatter.

  • Elliegrll

    Those are great points eilonwy. The type of buzz that Iver has gotten has occurred naturally, and goes beyond just a handful of fans. The idol fan routine of continuously playing videos on a loop has never made any sense to me, and I’ve never figured out how fans think that it helps their favorite. PDs aren’t going to take someone seriously, when they see that the video for their song has a million views, but the song itself has barely sold 50K copies. The Youtube loops go hand in hand with fans who promote their favorite artist by tweeting to other hardcore fans, who also like and follow that artist. It’s really not accomplishing a whole lot. The sales of WWFM and LLWD stabilized when people outside of Kris and Adam’s hardcore fan base became aware of those songs.

    Valentin432 , at this point, you are referring to sales that would be due to idol fans. We know that Pia doesn’t have a big AI fanbase, but that doesn’t mean anything.

  • gferna

    Are we going to have an Adam Lambert thread tomorrow?
    Yes!

    Oh, Thanks…

  • Pam

    CHR/Pop
    65 67 TYGA Far Away f/Chris Richardson 165 165 0 0.414
    232 85 PIA TOSCANO This Time 72 6 66 0.218
    86 93 SANTANA Photograph f/Chris Daughtry 66 69 -3 0.290
    91 132 JORDIN SPARKS I Am Woman 29 61 -32 0.044
    282 140 KELLY CLARKSON Let Me Down 23 4 19 0.076
    125 166 GLEE CAST Friday 13 30 -17 0.031
    143 185 JAVIER COLON Stitch By Stitch 10 20 -10 0.020
    180 195 KRIS ALLEN Heartless 8 11 -3 0.040

  • mmb

    FYI. Whoever asked re Bleeding Love shooting up iTunes chart – it’s a 69 cent sale song

  • halo9125

    FYI. Whoever asked re Bleeding Love shooting up iTunes chart – it’s a 69 cent sale song

    LOL -funny thing is I heard it being played in the supermarket yesterday and realized that I never downloaded- so I did- but I paid $1.29!

  • HotHotHot

    Idol Chatter

    Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (59,000 last week, -8%, 451,000 overall)
    Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull, On the Floor (51,000, -6%, 2.837 million)
    Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne, I’m Into You (31,000, +34%, 259,000)
    Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson, Don’t You Wanna Stay (27,000, -1%, 1.503 million)
    Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big (22,000, -6%, 441,000)
    Mandisa, Stronger (5,000, -2%, 88,000)

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/index

  • car3278sweet

    The season (S9) was cast around uncharismatic people who all seemed to have similar performing styles and whose singing quality was much below the idol standard.

    Ooooookay.

    Crystal? Her singing quality was below… um… Kris? Ah… Lauren? Not saying that both aren’t very good singers. But to say Crystal’s is below them. Uh. NO.

    Similar performing styles? Well, gosh. Siobhan certainly is similar to Tim Urban. And I can totally see the similar styles of Big Mike and Crystal. Totally.

    Um. NO.

    Uncharismatic? Yes. I agree. I would say the sexiness/draw of Ruben Studard is far above Casey James. Absolutely.

    Um. NO.

    I am mildly tired of the meme that because Simon was leaving, there was no Nigel, Ken is an idiot and there was “a weird vide” per Ryan Seacrest.. that suddenly and absolutely …………………………….. all the contestants from S9 are so awful, so horrible, so incredibly awful compared to every other AI contestant.

    Seriously?

    cough

    But I still flove you, gangreene29. And yes. Even after you dissed my special snowflake. LOL

  • Elliegrll

    Season 9 didn’t have the worst contestants talent wise, but they didn’t work well as a group. It is an exaggeration to say that they all had the same performance style, but last year is the first time that I saw pretty much everyone in the top 24 have some of the same problems. I would say it’s because none of them had professional experience, but that’s not totally true.

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