Stadium Sellouts

There have been guaranteed stadium sellouts all summer long.
Some examples:

Beyoncé
Coldplay
Shakira
Ed Sheeran
Robbie Williams
Dua Lipa
The Weeknd

Never mind Guns N' Roses who go nearly clean despite touring almost every year with no new material.

And Zach Bryan can play stadiums and sell out whenever he wants.

Then there's Kenny Chesney and Chris Stapleton...

But what is even more interesting is the acts whose profile is not as high as those above who are also selling out stadiums. This number of successful stadium shows has been heretofore unknown.

Having said that, these acts are not those who dominate today's Spotify Top 50 so much as having paid their dues and broken through in a much less cluttered world wherein the old methods of carpet bomb promotion/publicity still worked. Will there be new stadium acts created? Yes. But it appears it's less about a recent hit than a number of successful songs over a period of time.

What accounts for this? A unique experience that is unavailable elsewhere. We've all got the same smartphones, access to Netflix, but once in lifetime experiences that everybody can't attend? Those are rare. Other than travel and in some cases food, music owns the sphere.

Never forget that there are 50% more people in America than there were in the last heyday of stadium shows in the seventies.

But you don't have to be known by all, you don't have to be plastered all over the news to sell out a stadium today. Either people know you're doing a show and have to go or they couldn't care less or the news is ignored or never even flies on their radar screen.

Note: Many of the acts below have more stadium sellouts this summer beyond the ones listed.

STRAY KIDS

Strade de France - 2 shows -117,382 - $16,951,814

Tottehnam Hotspur Stadium - 2 shows - 89,225 - $15,991,035

As well as sellouts here:
2 at SoFi
2 at CitiField
2 at Globe Life Field

CHRIS BROWN

MetLife Stadium - 2 shows - 107,256 - $15,001,827

Ford Field - 2 shows - 90,437 - $14,619,415

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

Dodger Stadium - 2 shows - 87,431 - $14,965,124

MetLife Stadium - 45,511 - $9,334,216

Globe Life Field - 38,246 - $8,267,228

ULTIMO

Not a sellout, 94%

Studio Olimpico - 3 shows - 174,544 - $13,134,558

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Stadion Letzigrund - 47,071 - $9,708,963

IRON MAIDEN

London Stadium - 69,419 - $8,920,154

Paris La Défense Arena - 2 shows - 75,483-$7,660,857

LANA DEL REY

Aviva Stadium - 51,445 - $8,417,738

MAX PEZZALI

Not a sellout, 97% business

Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari-82,446 - $6,624,840

RUFUS DU SOUL

Sports Illustrated Stadium - 2 shows - 48,226 - $5,895,519

STEREOPHONICS

Principality Stadium - 57,175 - $5,784,354

LUMINEERS

Empower Field at Mile High - 54,247 - $5,102,102

NOAH KAHAN

Marlay Park - 39,967 - $4,990,161

SAM FENDER

(98%, not sellouts)

St. James Park - 2 shows- 50,377 - $9,821,458



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