Pollstar Reporting Jukebox Tour Ticket Sales

From Claytonlady of the CB:

Update as of Saturday, September 24, 2005

I will keep updating until all the Pollstar results are in. They may not get data from every one of Clay's concerts; but whatever ones are reported on I will keep posting:

Some of these results have been listed here for a few weeks; but the last two concerts were just added today:

Now that the Juke Box Tour is over and Pollstar results are slowly coming in, I am using this thread to post the ticket sales results:

I've been getting these numbers for a few weeks from the CV and CH
-- adding a couple more today from kmh135 at the CH

8/28/05

Clay Aiken
Bank Of America Pavilion
Boston, MA
Tea Party Concerts
4,468
5,107
87%
38.50 - 50.00
203,038


8/12/05
Clay Aiken
Meadowbrook Music Festival
Rochester,MI The Cellar Door Companies
3,677 7,668 47%
$18.00 - $46.50
$137,878

8/15/05
Clay Aiken
Fraze Pavilion For The Perf. Arts
Kettering,OH
Belkin Productions
3,293 4,252 77%
$32.50 - $59.50
$140,959

8/16/05
Clay Aiken
Zoo Amphitheatre
Toledo,OH
Belkin Productions
4,638 4,675 99%
$39.50 - 47.50
$197,320


Pollstar Results as of August 2, 2005

This was posted by hockeydonna on CV and CH:


Don't Panic! Don't Extrapolate! It looks fine. Maybe a little lower than some of our projections, but still fine. THese are the only 3 that showed up today. Both Pittsburgh and Darien have lower grosses, probably due to the Live8 promotion.

8/2/05

Clay Aiken
Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Atlanta,GA
Peter Conlon Presents
4,812
6,700
71%
33.50 - 50.50
226,691


7/30/05

Clay Aiken
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Darien Center,NY
Ron Delsener Presents
3,942
6,252
63%
18.00 - 45.00
137,830

7/31/05

Clay Aiken
Chevrolet Amphitheatre
Pittsburgh,PA
Belkin Productions
2,941
4,666
63%
18.00 - 51.50
111,410

Latest Pollstar -- August 25 - This is NOT GOOD NEWS!

Too many Ohio concerts this year, unfortunately. Look at the comparison of the Ohio State Fair last year and this year.

I'm starting to get worried about the JNT2. There has got to be some television promotion, or something to make people come out.


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From CH

QUOTE ("kmh135"
One new pollstar listing for Clay today:


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8/9/05

Clay Aiken
Ohio State Fair
Columbus,OH
(In-House Promotion)
3,941 (att)
7,970 (cap)
49%
30.00
118,230

I have one thing to say....OUCH!

Compare this to last year:

QUOTE
Columbus OH
11-Aug-04
$185,000 (gross)
7,400 (att)
8,312 (cap)
89.0%
$25.00
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Comments by hockeydonna from CH


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hockeydonna

Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:36 pm GMT Post subject:


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kmh135... OUCH is right. The repeat venues have been trouble. I hope we don't see problems with the CHristmas show... they better promote that dang thing somehow.

He reallllly needs another album out, and radio songs before he does his next mainstream tour. That's why I'm hoping for more like a February release than an April release. Get some traction... have a hit song, and then get a second song before tickets go on sale in May. It needs to be an event
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More from hockeydonna's comments at Clayversity

QUOTE (deepsouthgal @ Aug 26 2005, 03:22 PM)
Just curious, but do any of Clay's sold out or high attendance tour venues get reported and publicized by that particular concert site? (can't remember the name)
From my records, he's already had at least five or six sellouts or near sellouts. What about them?


We pretty much know which venues will be reported. Sometimes it takes time for the reports. He definitely has NOT has 5 or 6 sellouts so far. Cary was sold out, Merrillville was sold out (3100 tickets), Mohegan Sun would have good numbers (hoping they report), Wolf Trap should show good numbers (well over 5500) but probably not sold out. Atlantic City will show some of the best numbers of the tour because of how they report. So far we've had 4 reports. One was very good (Chastain - about 226K gross), and the other 3 were under expectations (Darien, Pittsburgh, Ohio State Fair).

The most important thing to the promoter is "Did I make money?". Clay's fee was most likely in the $100K-$150K range. Hopefully these lower performing venues didn't have a $125K fee, or the promoter was losing money, which isn't a good thing.

I totally LOVE this tour, but from the beginning I thought it was risky from a business standpoint. If they were booked into 3000 seat venues, it would be a complete sellout. WHat were expectations? How much money is Clay getting? We don't know that.

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8/8/05

Clay Aiken
Wolf Trap Filene Center
Vienna,VA
(In-House Promotion)
6,077
7,028
86%
25.00 - 45.00
230,125

8/25/05

Clay Aiken
Molson Amphitheatre
Toronto ONT CANADA,
House Of Blues Canada
3,879
8,785
44%
42.50 - 55.50
173,963
Canadian
(211 645)

Comments from kmh135 at CH

The Wolftrap result seems quite good considering that the weather that day basically sucked (you aren't going to sell many same-day lawn tickets in a lightning storm). And the Toronto result is quite respectable - pretty much right in line with most of the sales for this show.

This brings his totals to:

Total Gross: $1,474,406
Total Attendance: 37,200
Total Capacity: 57,996
Average Ticket Price: $39.63
Average Capacity: 64%
Average Gross: $163,823
Average Attendance: 4,133
Average Capacity: 6,444

With the reported results to date, his attendance numbers are down from last year's average (which was 4,594). His average gross is up a bit though (last year was around $160) largely due to a $5 increase in average ticket price (from $34 to $39).