HTTP:: Adam Lambert Sells Most Tickets for Idol Live Concerts
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Music sales are going down and labels are taking up innovative measures of fighting recession and, implicitly, poor sales numbers, either with unique promotional campaigns or by means of including advertising on the album itself, like Def Jam announced it would do with Mariah Carey’s upcoming material. The one thing that seems to last in these financially troubled times is the Idol Live series of concerts, and that is mostly due to runner-up Adam Lambert, as USA Today informs. Numbers made public by Billboard and then cited by USA Today show that the tour, which features AI winner Kris Allen and nine other finalists, is actually faring just as well as the one from the previous year. On an average, the Idol Live tour sells 82 percent of tickets, grossing so far an estimated $11.2 million. If this does not sound as that much, Billboard, as cited by USA Today, assures us that it actually is, since most concerts or tours sell tickets only in a percentage of 60, with the rema!
ining 40 percent going down the drain, so to speak, or being offered as prizes. “According to Billboard Boxscore, the first 19 shows of 2009 averaged 9,456 attendees per city, almost even with the 9,771 for the same period last year. With ticket prices ranging from $40.50 to $69.50 â€" a dollar higher than last y...
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