1 - Germany is for DVD & CD sales and the band it at 19.......not particularly impressive for combined sales of TWO products.....
2 - Italy & Holland - what are you assuming here? Has everyone in these two countries bought a copy or (which would indeed be impressive) or just a few thousand at say £15 each which is more likely.
You'll only convince me that this is a reason why the band does not need to tour for the money if you can come up with hard sales figures. IE -number of units sold against sales price.
As for going on and on - entirely up to you, but you are providing no *PROOF* by just cutting and pasting chart details - you have no idea how the charts are prepared (which agency compiles them and which record companies are PAYING THEM to say that so-and-so is at number 1.
But then this is the kind of blind obsessiveness that seems to befall Queen fans......
The Mir@cle · Member since
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Benn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]You're not helping your arguement here are you:
2 - Italy & Holland - what are you assuming here? Has everyone in these two countries bought a copy or (which would indeed be impressive) or just a few thousand at say £15 each which is more likely.
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Ok let's see... Holland has a population of almost 17 million. Queen on Fire stood 2nd at the DVD charts at Christmas time. I think almost 5 million people in Holland own a DVD player. Well, assume that Live At The Bowl has been sold 50.000 times, they have an income of £750.000. If 1% will be for the Band members, they already have a decent month salary.
And this is just Holland. Queen is huge all over the world.
By the way, you’re assuming that the ticket prices of 60 euro is telling us that they in need of money. But you haven't hard sales figures either... Do you know what it cost to travel, build the stage etc. etc.?? And it's argument, not arguement (-;
Eikel (-:
The Mir@cle · Member since
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Benn · Member since
I'll be surprised if 50,000 copies of Live At The Bowl have been sold in Holland - great if they have, but I'd like to see hard figures.
Factual error which might change your opinion a little:
The ticket price is NOT 60 euros as you state, but £60 - a REAL currency, not something made up to try to bring a bunch of economically poor nations in to line with the more developed economies. By your estimation, that would make a ticket price of £41.97, where in reality, it is 85.77 EUROS.
Does the extra 25 Euros make you think that they are charging a little in excess of what they SHOULD be charging for a band that hasn't played before other than on a TV show?
> should be argument
Heavens above!!!!!! A small error - I'm at work and trying not to let this take up too much of my time, so I'm not spell-checking ANYTHING. Fi you're going to start picking spelling mistakes apart, let me have a try:
> a decent month salary
Should read a decent *month's* salary - it pertaining to the salary of a particular month.
> what it cost to travel
Should read what it *costs* to travel - you are speaking in the first person about something that is yet to happen.
I'm not going to go on, because *I* don't want this to turn personal, where you clearly do - but then I suppose you'll never learn these things if you are over reliant on copy-and-paste, will you...... And no, I have no idea how to write in Dutch and I have no desire to either, hence I don't try - it's great that you feel you can but please don't get picky because you're setting yourself up.
BTW - there's a deliberate spelling mistake here for you just to keep you happy.
Deacons 1st Choice · Member since
Regarding "plusses" at the Brixton Show..
Yes, a cool exclusive t-shirt would be nice (something worthwhile, not something obviously made up design-wise in 10 seconds...like the Tour Logo!)
I was also thinking of perhaps something else..maybe a program or a pin...maybe something extra special added into the show...
Better yet: Some surprise guests! No, i don't mean John Deacon (he will be there anyway secretly watching this whole thing..) i mean celebrity musicians who will guest during certain songs. That would be something...and would MORE then justify the high ticket price.
Brian has already hinted at the guest idea already on his website....so perhaps this is indeed in the works?
