Circus: December 11, 1979 – Figures
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:05 amI just thought this was interesting, for 1979.................
Circus: December 11, 1979 – Figures
Can’t buy me love?
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 Name of Venue Gross Receipts Days on Record Sales
Tickets Sold (To nearest Tour, 1979
At successful thousand)*
Show*
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 Ranking in Top Watts of Sound in
Road Crew Fifteen of ’79 Concert
Gallup youth
Survey (Favorite
Musical Group
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.
Circus: December 11, 1979 – Figures
Can’t buy me love?
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 Name of Venue Gross Receipts Days on Record Sales
Tickets Sold (To nearest Tour, 1979
At successful thousand)*
Show*
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 Ranking in Top Watts of Sound in
Road Crew Fifteen of ’79 Concert
Gallup youth
Survey (Favorite
Musical Group
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.