Magic Tour - profits from tickets only

dysan wrote:

RE: One Year Of Love: I did actually hear it on French Radio in about 1990 so maybe it was a 'radio hit'

I've never heard One Year Of Love on French radio, even once. Listening to Queen since 1992-1993. Moreover some radio stations like RTL2 are quite fond of Queen and their songs are broadcast several times a day, even today, and I've never heard OYOL.

The Fonz wrote:

Ok, perhaps look at it this way. Queen played Mt Smart Stadium in 1985. Attendance was 35,000.
Adele played the same venue on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday this past week. Total ticket sales 130,000.

Of course, tickets are also far more expensive these days than they were in the 80's.

So am I to understand that the attendance for that show was lower that one of the Adele's show at the same venue (roughly 43.000) ?
We have to consider that at that time, Queen weren't that popular in New Zealand or am I wrong ?

@little Foetus: I remember thinking how fantastic it was hearing it - very French! Coming from a car radio while sat outside a café in Carnac. Lovely.

MercurialFreddie wrote:

The Fonz wrote:

Ok, perhaps look at it this way. Queen played Mt Smart Stadium in 1985. Attendance was 35,000.
Adele played the same venue on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday this past week. Total ticket sales 130,000.

Of course, tickets are also far more expensive these days than they were in the 80's.

So am I to understand that the attendance for that show was lower that one of the Adele's show at the same venue (roughly 43.000) ?
We have to consider that at that time, Queen weren't that popular in New Zealand or am I wrong ?

this is entirely speculative - I have heard a 2nd show was on the cards, but not enough sales to justify it. Also (and in general) shows at Mt. Smart have standing on the field, with seating in the grandstands. Now, in the mid-80's there was more standing room, as at least one of the stands hadn't been built. Adele, however, was fully-seated, with the stage in the middle of the field and plastic chairs set up on the field.

So yeah, Queen at Mt. Smart was lower than one of Adele's 3 shows at Mt Smart. I'd have to say that yep, Queen's popularity was definitely less than Adele's is now.

For a comparison, Bowie played Western Springs (also in Auckland) in 1983 - official figures are approx. 75,000, unofficially over 80,000.

Interestingly, NZ had a population of around 3.2 million in 1985, whereas it's 4.4 million now.

Adele annoys me.

The profits would never be much from ticket sales back then.Wembley cost about £13.50/£15.00 but the cost of the show was huge.......ironically sponsorship happened the next year in 1987 with Mr Jackson and the Bad tour and everybody else jumped on the bandwagon to tour as they got paid enormously for it,I must had seen about a hundred bands between 1987-1990 in that era.Discussions took place with Queen to tour the Miracle album which would have earned them an enormous sum,but sadly of course could never come tp pass. RIP Freddie xxx

All acts these days tour for money,they get paid for it and charge huge sums,I paid £200 quid to see Bon Jovi ! Queen charged £15 for Wembley 1986,180 clare brothers speaker cabinets,(500,000 watts)£50.000 axminster carpet to cover the stage...you will never see that again.......................

jrd1951 wrote:

All acts these days tour for money,they get paid for it and charge huge sums,I paid £200 quid to see Bon Jovi ! Queen charged £15 for Wembley 1986,180 clare brothers speaker cabinets,(500,000 watts)£50.000 axminster carpet to cover the stage...you will never see that again.......................

The Fonz wrote:

MercurialFreddie wrote:

The Fonz wrote:

Ok, perhaps look at it this way. Queen played Mt Smart Stadium in 1985. Attendance was 35,000.
Adele played the same venue on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday this past week. Total ticket sales 130,000.

Of course, tickets are also far more expensive these days than they were in the 80's.

So am I to understand that the attendance for that show was lower that one of the Adele's show at the same venue (roughly 43.000) ?
We have to consider that at that time, Queen weren't that popular in New Zealand or am I wrong ?

this is entirely speculative - I have heard a 2nd show was on the cards, but not enough sales to justify it. Also (and in general) shows at Mt. Smart have standing on the field, with seating in the grandstands. Now, in the mid-80's there was more standing room, as at least one of the stands hadn't been built. Adele, however, was fully-seated, with the stage in the middle of the field and plastic chairs set up on the field.

So yeah, Queen at Mt. Smart was lower than one of Adele's 3 shows at Mt Smart. I'd have to say that yep, Queen's popularity was definitely less than Adele's is now.

For a comparison, Bowie played Western Springs (also in Auckland) in 1983 - official figures are approx. 75,000, unofficially over 80,000.

Interestingly, NZ had a population of around 3.2 million in 1985, whereas it's 4.4 million now.

The Queen concert in NZ was definitely not sold out.
Moreover, it seems the stadium was revamped few years ago and it is bigger today than it was in 1985. So no surprise more people attended Adele shows than Queen shows.