Ticket Sales Delay Possible

Statement from the official fanclub.

09/22/05 / JOYFUL NOISE TOUR PRESALE/ON-SALE UPDATE
Additional on-sale and presale details have not been posted on the site this week due to the fact that the production house that creates all of the advertising for the tour is located in Houston, which as you probably know is presently in the path of a major hurricane. All of the employees have had to evacuate the city and we won't know until Monday Sept. 26th if the production house will be operational and back to business as usual. Some concert promoters may move their on sale-dates back as a result, though it's possible additional fan club presales will still be able to go on the latter part of next week. Clay's management is in communication with each concert promoter to develop a hurricane "Plan B". Further updates will be posted as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding and join us in extending best wishes and prayers for the safety for everyone in the path of Hurricane Rita. Posted by mca

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.


Quote:
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From CH

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


QUOTE
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.

Quote:
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).

Aiken Returns to Jimmy Kimmel Live

Clay will return to Jimmy Kimmel Live September 26 (ABC, Citytv [Canada]). Clay last appeared in February.

Clay On Insider Friday

Once again, Clay reported from the set of Dancing With The Stars where the challengers won in the highly anticipated ABC dance off. Clay interviewed both pairs of dancer and even gave a hug to Kelly M., who lost the dance off. Video is available here.

New Audio Clip Up at Fanclub

A new audio clip of Clay talking is up at the official fanclub, once you have logged in. Since this is member exclusive, we are not authorized to share the contents of this clip with you. We encourage you to join the fanclub ($29.95 per year) at clayonline.com.

Hurricane Rita

On behalf of Clay's Daily Double Inc., I send my best wishes to the residents of Texas and Louisiana this afternoon as category 4 Hurricane Rita continues toward the Texas-Louisana border. It is expected to make landfall later tonight.

You can help by donating to the American Red Cross or the Canadian Red Cross. These organizations need your help right now. You can also donate to UNICEF (Clay is an ambassador for UNICEF), which usually works internationally, but because of the scope of Katrina's damage, has chosen to step in and help.

clayisouridol
Clay's Daily Double Inc.

Looking Hawt in Oct. 3 People Magazine

People Magazine's October 3rd issue has a hot portrait of Clay from Fashion Week, last week.

Click to enlarge. Thanks to nunu@the CH.

InTouch: Clay Looked Like A Magician

In the October 3rd issue of InTouch Weekly, they say that Clay looked like 'a magician' on the Emmy red carpet last week.

Virtual Clay-House Tours Spark Media Frenzy

And you think it'd be over by now! Last month, when Clay put his LA house on the market, Clay's realtor put a virtual tour of the home on the internet. Now, the operator of the virtual tour has put a full 1 page ad in a North Carolina paper, thanks to Claymates.

Corresponding article in the same paper:


Many thanks to the CB's plumclayzy.

Clay Mention on CBS's Yes Dear

Clay was mentioned on yesterday's episode of CBS's Yes Dear.

From the CB:

Stuffy guy, Greg and wife are living with brother-in-law, Jimmy. Greg is not working and has been hanging around the house bumming off of Jimmy.
Jimmy finds a bunch of Pay-Per-View bills or whatever, and says they MUST be Gregs. His wife asks him how he knows they're Greg's and Jimmy says;
"Clay Aiken in concert; come on. They have to be Gregs"!!!!!

Wednesday's Insider

Clay reported from Dancing With The Stars last night on The Insider. Clay interviewed the dancers and asked them how come he never got a sing-off with Ruben. As Clay threw it back to Pat in The Insider studios, Clay said that it was time for Dancing With Clay! Clay returns on Friday with more Dancing With The Stars news.

Albany and Vancouver Fanclub Presales Tomorrow

Fanclub presales for the Albany and Vancouver concerts start tomorrow at 10 AM EDT.

Nov. 2/2005 Vancouver, BC
FANCLUB PRESALE AT 10 AM EDT 9/22 via TM.

Dec. 8/2005 Albany, NY
FANCLUB PRESALE AT 10 AM EDT 9/22 via TM.

For more info, log into your account at the fanclub.

Charity Motorcycle On The Auction Block

The Harley Davidson motorcycle signed by celebrities including Clay for the American Red Cross is now on the auction block at eBay. The current bid is $60,100.

Kimmel Mentions Clay's Emmy Job

Jimmy Kimmel mentioned Clay on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live. A video is available here.

From the CB:

Jimmy just showed a clip of the girls screaming for Clay at the Emmy's and the "kiss". It was really cute. He said they had to rush Clay to the hospital after the kiss to treat him for prevention of cooties. It was a good mention.

Clay On Insider Tuesday - WILL BE BACK TODAY AND FRI

Clay was on again last night. The Insider's Pat O'Brien mentioned that bidding for Clay's Emmy-red carpet clothes are now up to $6,000 and Clay showed us some of the items being auctioned off. Clay also said he'd be back today and Friday reporting from Dancing With The Stars. Stay tuned to ATCA for video.

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Clay on Insider and Entertainment Tonight

According to official fanclub, Clay will be reporting about the Emmy's and Dancing With The Stars on The Insider every night this week except for Thursday. It might also be good to watch Entertainment Tonight as The Insider is an ET spin-off started in 2004.

Wrapping for Inclusion 2005 Announced

The Bubel Aiken Foundation announced Monday that the Wrapping For Inclusion program is returing for its second year this holiday season beginning November 20, 2005 and running through December 24, 2005. "During the holiday season, area stores and shopping malls set up gift-wrapping booths for their customers. In exchange for a donation to the Foundation, volunteers will work the booths for the stores and malls," reports the Clay Nation News. More information can be obtained via The Bubel Aiken Foundation's website.

Photos from the Past Week

A few photos from the past week! Thanks to ClayAikenMedia.com for The Insider and Leno caps. Videos of these events are up at various Clay sites, including ATCA, MOAF and pax's Vivavoice site. Click to enlarge.

The Insider Friday
Clay showing us the Architectural Digest Emmy room.



Emmy Red-Carpet
Looking handsome!


The Insider Monday
Starstruck Clay on the red-carpet interviewing the housewives, Donald Trump, fooling around backstage at The Insider's Emmy's studio...



Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Clay signs a motorcycle for Hurricane Katrina

Clay Drops off Lycos50

Update: We have learned that Clay did not drop off the list and was dropped by error. Clay is #3for the week of Sept. 27.