"Pop" economics

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

It's reasonably rare that someone I want to see gives a show in Moscow. Bryan Ferry is not high on my list, by any means, but I am compensating for not getting to go see Roisin Murphy, who I really *really* wanted to see (and who gave a great performance here two years ago - her first live solo show).

But:

The venue - a 3500 capacity club. General admission tickets, let's say 3000: 1,500 rubles (J30, $60). Seats - about 180: 9,000 rubles (J180, $360). VIP 1 tickets, about 20: 15,000 rubles (J300, $600). VIP 2 tickets (8, i think): 50,000 rubles (J1,000, $2,000)

This means Bryan is grossing roughly J136,400 ($272,800). (And he's doing two shows!)

No, under no circumstances am I going to pay for Dylanesque.

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More maths

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

4000 seats x 600 shows (almost all sold-out) x AVERAGE ticket price of $750 (http://www.tickco.com/xml/Tickets.asp?pid=458052) = $1,800,000,000.

That's over four years, but Celine's show is raking in $450m a year. She's taking home about 5% of that.

gulp!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Not sure what's more frightening there, the total amount or the fact that her cut is so small.