Those poor artists!

Posted at: Monday, June 9, 2008, 5:45 pm

The Billboard Boxscore column this week is topped by a show featuring Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar (!) and Gary Allan at a football stadium in Phoenix. It grossed $3.15 million. Artists can’t live on such paltry paydays alone; fortunately the same lineup did just south of that a week earlier in Cleveland.

Country has a reputation for keeping ticket prices cheap, but both shows had a $75 average ticket price. (And I assume the reported one doesn’t include Ticketmaster fees, a good chunk of which typically go back to the artist.)


2 Comments so far

  1. Shawno June 9th, 2008 10:27 pm

    Kenny Chesney and Sammy Hagar on the same bill? I have to chuckle at that. And if these guys can’t make money anymore selling records, I guess they’ll just recoup those losses through overpriced tickets. I wouldn’t pay those prices. But clearly, some people will.

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