1979 - A few sales figures

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This is from the same Circus Magazine (Dec. 1979) This compares a few sales figures from top bands of 1979.

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Circus: December 11, 1979 – Figures

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Pollsters measure band popularity by telephone, but fans really vote for their favorite bands with their pocketbooks when they buy concert tickets and record albums. Below is a chart using comparative figures to indicate the relative market strength of Styx, Van Halen, Cheap Trick and Foreigner. Some of the figures are “ballpark” estimates gathered from managers, record companies and band members. Such figures cannot be quantified, and some groups have been known to exaggerate their own popularity, but these statistics provide some measure of rock power.


Band/Number of Tickets Sold at Successful show*/Name of Venue/Gross Receipts(to the nearest thousand)*/Days on Tour, 1979/Record Sales


Styx 16,300 L.A. Forum $148,000 225 $12 million
14,500 Cow Palace 123,000
12,591 Oakland Coliseum 111,000


Cheap 14,900 L.A. Forum $204,000 160 $ 5 million
Trick
14,000 Long Beach 149,000
Arena
7,200 Selland Arena 60,000


Foreigner 14,500 Oakland Coliseum $121,000 125 15 million
Records


Van Halen 81,000* Cotton Bowl (Figure 150 6 million
Unavailable records
6,113 Corpus Christi 45,985) worldwide
*(with Boston & Memorial
Heart) Coliseum














Band/No. of People in Road Crew/Ranking in top fifteen of '79 gallup youth survey (Favorite Musical Group)/ Watts of sound in concert


Styx 34 1 ----
Cheap Trick 26 13 ----
Foreigner 30 12 40,000
Van Halen 30 9 40,000

* Courtesy of Billboard Magazine representative 1979 charts.