Posts tagged 2007

It was another turbulent year in the music industry, a company that sees significant challenges on almost all aspects of the business model and needs the pressure of such a change as far as the polar bear needs a heat lamp. By downloading, peer-to-peer music that seems unstoppable, “said close, no matter how many shops, bad press designed by poorly punitive charges against file sharers produced declining CD sales increased failure between the traditional music retail, and known artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails and new versions of their own free online, it seems these days the music industry does not work can catch a break

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But with all this doom and gloom, one was positive for the industry in 2007, a relatively strong live performance. Nostalgia was the order of the day, beat with classic rock acts to continue the road, bringing the number increased to 80, the actions that had either the desire in the context of a midlife crisis, or who would like to add to his already old age. Especially in the Act are currently seeing (Week 20 November 2007) in the top spots on the fifteen Pollstar Top 50 concert tours:

1. Bon Jovi
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
3.
Van Halen
4.
Celine Dion
5. Foo Fighters
6.
Neil Young
7. Ozzy Osbourne
8.
tool
9.
Billy Joel
10. Police
11.
John Mellencamp
12.
Elton John
13. Stevie Wonder
14. The Spice Girls
15. Rage Against The Machine />
I count four times (five if you toured with Springsteen the E Street Band are), try a lounge act, to escape Las Vegas and some bands are relatively common. The rest is sure to fit well under the “nostalgia” umbrella – not that Billy Joel and Elton John are not good or important is that their music is not what you usually expect Rocking one years to twenty years, as their first choice .

The numbers are not everything, but the big money are looking very good. During the journey began in 2005, The Rolling Stones “A Bigger Bang tour wrapped up in the fall of 2007 and he made the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest concert tour extrapolation of the story. Just has a size that, you ask, please put 0 million ( U.S. dollars) for the 144 days played. True, more than half a billion dollars, almost four million U.S. dollars overnight. spending money is not bad.

Before the eyes of the dough was made with the hand over fist on tourism, but there are some to consider reality checks.

First, the record companies are rarely money touring, so it does not help as the concert proceeds to offset declining CD sales. The artist himself, see a passage from a very lucrative venture, but they do not usually see most of the species collected at the door. According to industry average, an artist can expect to net as much as thirty-five percent of ticket price and fifty percent of the merchandise for a show. Most of the receptacle is for developers, road crews, locations, ticket sellers and all others that any participation in the planning, marketing has to pay, running, building or cleaning agent after the show.

Complicating the equation is the fact that ticket sales were actually relatively flat, because in fact, they showed a slight decline over the past few years. But ticket prices have continued to increase significantly, especially in groups, their demographic audience wrong to older, affluent audience. According to Rolling Stone, the average cost of concert tickets at £ 18 in 1999 and 2003 that had risen to over 24 pounds. A survey by the Los Angeles Times that the average price rose to £ 30 for the year 2006, there are some simple inflationary pressures at work.

The crucial question is the decisive factor for the ranking of the top box office of the acts of passage. Proponents claim that the market will bear, and a group with a story (like the Rolling Stones) or a significant unmet demand due to a break (the police) tend to be somewhat older fans (in both the Rolling Stones and The Police) allows developers to charge prices much higher bills. It is therefore not surprising that major acts like the Rolling Stones, U2 and The Police succeed together again and withdrawn to free tickets for several days, and in the end the top of the charts, even though they may not be a new CD in more than twenty years have published.

Looking at the numbers provided by Pollstar (Note: these are rounded off), you can easily see this relationship. In 2005, concert, concerts appear at the top of the list of gross, what has become a familiar pattern: the dominance of nostalgia and Classic Rock are among the first five places by the Rolling Stones, U2, Celine Dion, Paul McCartney held, and The Eagles. Okay, this is Celine Dion in a strange, but you can attribute that the players in Las Vegas with more money than they know what a tab bar and healthy.

The Rolling Stones first place won 80 million pounds with an average ticket price of 65 pounds. U2 came in second, earning 68 million pounds with an average ticket price of 49 pounds. Find a contemporary note on the list of twenty, and you can find Coldplay take seventh, extrapolation 11 million pounds with an average ticket price for the more modest 19 pounds, Green Day hit number 12 to £ 17 million pounds 18 notes. Profile? Even if Green Day or the promoters tried to pay on this large, there would be enough “children” ready to pay £ 49 for tickets? Would they attract Baby Boomer enough to cover the deficit? I doubt it.

Large relatively low does not mean that other acts do not go well now, it simply means they do not play that many concerts for fans, the largest number, or they are not loaded much almost as much for tickets. You can do very well, just not good enough to pay the long route early retirement.

So now we have found that 2007 was a very good year a rock band on tour and got the non-financial sense of the way, showing that actually stayed in the hustle and bustle?

Police rank pretty high there. At first people with morbid curiosity observed, as expected, that the old tensions resurface and end with Sting and Stewart Copeland disadvantages hell with each other on stage – come on, admit it, you hope that that the travel to the show you saw. Despite a somewhat difficult start to see the band clearly the practice was, after all these years, they quickly found their groove and played to sold-out and very good reviews. Critics were happy and the fans tickets fast enough.

Rage Against The Machine is a different group than expected actions, particularly popular among young rock alternative. The comic series, Van Halen and David Lee Roth was moved enough to actually set off 2007th Genesis reform – at least in the version of Phil Collins-led Genesis. Canadian progressive rockers Rush tour in support of Snakes & Arrows CD. Rock the Mic Tour with Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliott for a range of more than 30 shows. According to Forbes magazine, the Dixie Chicks less than a week to sell more than 22 million pounds in ticket sales for 57 shows.

For Pre-Teens and (perhaps as a teenager) is, Disney Hannah Montana has been “rocking” all sold out venues. A further meeting of all kinds, Smashing Pumpkins were in 2007, with veterans Gordon Lightfoot, Van Morrison, John Fogerty, Rod Stewart, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, all tour. Sometimes confused rocker Ozzy Osborne began with Rob Zombie. Bon Jovi is selling tickets to great applause, and the old new ranges (this is a contradiction in terms?) Duran Duran and The Cure are on the road. Justin Timberlake has proven his groove and Dane Cook, that stand-up comics could arenas for sale. Not to be left in the cold by classic rockers and acts of the Assembly, Incubus, Tool, Foo Fighters, Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne’s group (Sum 41), Korn, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Eat World, Fallout Boy, Cake, Avenged Sevenfold, Band of Horses, Arcade Fire, all observations for the alternative rock audience made.

So, as 2008 is characterized in terms of shows? Obviously we can not predict at this time, but I’m ready to throw this out: Tickets are still in the prices at a faster rate than inflation and the biggest acts of the extrapolation will increase once more with the aging rocker, the ultimate combination of rock and consolidation in the tip. If the chemistry for the performance of their concert in December was good, and when Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are not found in the fist, it could be that Led Zeppelin can commit to a turn, and when that happens look for them to be at the top of the list this time next year. But to return to the starting point for the problem of the record companies have with CD sales down, mega-group and thorn-in-the-side labels, artists rights Champions Radiohead plan a world tour of 2008. Do not count with.

There must be an interesting year.