U2 360 Boxscore Discussion Part II

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Lincoln Financial Field - seating capacity 68,532

I think U2 CAN SELL AROUND 46 000 TICKETS FOR THE SECOND DATE

IN CONFIGURATION 360 THIS WILL BE NOT GOOD FOR U2

I THINK THAT
 
Hmm. I'd bet with no second show in either Baltimore or New York in 2011, that they could have sold out a second night there. Guess we'll never know though!
 
Even if they did "only" play to 46,000 in Philly a second night, I'd think that would still be quite profitable. The first show, which sold 70,000-ish tickets, would've paid all the "bills" for the event, and the 2nd show would pretty much be gravy on top of that (minus operating costs of that particular show). Remember, they deamed the 2nd show in Brisbane worthy of playing, despite only having around 30,000 tickets sold.

I admit, some of the American markets I mentioned are a stretch for a large 360 stadium concert... but so are places like Norman OK and Charlottesville VA, so whose to say?

As far as Ohio, I think Cleveland is probably too close to Pittsburgh and East Lansing/Detroit. In Columbus you have the OSU football stadium, which holds over 100,000 people (U2 played to 43,000 there in 1997). Cincinnati has a pretty small NFL football stadium, and it's within driving distance from Indianapolis (2 hours), Louisville (1.5 hours), Lexington (1.5 hours), Dayton (1 hour), Columbus (2 hours), and all points between. I think this could've been done.

As far as places that don't have "adequate" stadiums, if there's a will there's a way. See Montreal and Moncton, where U2 basically had their own stadiums built particularly for their concerts. And that stadium they played in Denmark was TINY TINY TINY, but they made it work anyway.
 
Let's hope the boxscores for the next tour are not as impressive.

I think there's some Central and Eastern European countries they've not yet played in that they could play on the next tour, such as Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and the Baltic states, and also places in Asia, such as South Korea, China, Malaysia and Thailand. For most of these places U2 could probably sell out - or nearly sell out - stadiums if they wanted to go down that route again.
 
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