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Article from Colorado
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http://www.chieftain.com/news/band-perry-most-profitable/article_92c976ba-10de-11e1-ae6a-001cc4c03286.html
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Martina McBride proved to be a surprising loss of $26,444 for the Fair. Her $35 tickets were the highest at the Fair but the act failed to sell out.
According to the Fair, The Band Perry cost $17,500. McBride and Gomez charged around $153,000 per performance. Humperdinck's performance cost $75,000.
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Food concessions should be included in this as i know i always drop a HUGE amount on Fair FOOD! Fried Snickers, Fried Twinkies, fried Oreos OH MY! I would have gladly shelled out 35 bucks to see McBride and then gotten there early & plowed thru the Fair Food and evened out or possibly turned a profit.. oh, and dont forgit the Fried Butta !!
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Personally, methinks someone got their numbas all wrong..
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And the point of this post is what?
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$35 is so cheap!! I'm not sure what the point of this was- over 5000 people still went to martina- I wonder how big the venue is...
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$35 is so cheap!! I'm not sure what the point of this was- over 5000 people still went to martina- I wonder how big the venue is...
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I have a hobby. I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it.
Not sure of the setup, but this is from the event center web site:
Seating
See Floorplans
Up to 7,884 depending on the event
Upper bowl seating (permanent seating) 3,462, includes handicapped area
Temporary seating 1,978
Floor seating 2,444
A second article says Selena Gomez was sold out there at ~5,900 -
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am i missing something.. i suck at math but at 5165 tix at 35. - thats 180,775- and if her perf cost around 153,000- why is that a loss?
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i thought someone's math was incorrect and it aint urs, DAKOTA!
* AMYinATLANTA
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I emailed them and asked to explain their math :)
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I emailed them and asked to explain their math :)
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yeah he said this
Overall Revenue was $156,741.
Her act cost $153,500.
And there were $17,687 other expenses for production, equipment rentals, catering, sound and lights, production, and an agency fee, which I don't know anything about.
That puts her act as a $26,444 loss for the Fair.
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yeah he said this
Overall Revenue was $156,741.
Her act cost $153,500.
And there were $17,687 other expenses for production, equipment rentals, catering, sound and lights, production, and an agency fee, which I don't know anything about.
That puts her act as a $26,444 loss for the Fair.
Does that make more sense?
I dunno...are the including the other expenses as part of her act? Or is that just how much she, personally, got paid.
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the FRIGGN arithmatic STILL does not add up for me..if they were + for jus ticket sales and then subtract 17 grand and change for blah, blah, blah then how can they be in the hole for 26 and change? whatevs.. i am telling you, at that damn price Martina is a FRIGGN BAH-GAIN!!
* AMYinATLANTA
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This person has a problem with first grade math!!LOL and second of all, shouldn't the other expenses be divided between all the acts just not Martina, oh wait this person can't even add so why do I think they can divide!!LOL to me Martina made the fair a profit of $3,241 period :)
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Very odd...Doesn't make sense unless the 5,165 "sold" tickets didn't really bring in $35. Maybe some of the $35 went for something else (venue fee, service charge, etc). 153,500/5165 =~$29.72
The funny part is an earlier article said Selena Gomez had sold 6,266 tickets by July 9, 2011...but this one says she sold out at 5,904 (did the miscount by 362 tickets). http://www.chieftain.com/gomez-the-hit-of-pre-fair-tickets/article_b6a31906-a9f0-11e0-8a68-001cc4c002e0.html
Then there is this article that says Martina tickets were $40. http://www.chieftain.com/life/local/good-show/article_3e852644-cebc-11e0-bc1a-001cc4c002e0.html
Another says the tickets were $35 earlybird price, but $40 after a given date. -
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yeah im not really sure- i just took the answer and let it go LOL
he also said this .
Acts do have some equipment, but not all. It's pretty normal for arenas to rent sound equipment for an act. That's what the Fair normally does. And a lot of acts don't event bring all their musical instruments, so they rent saxophones, guitars, trumpets, things like that from local people -
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yeah im not really sure- i just took the answer and let it go LOL
he also said this .
Acts do have some equipment, but not all. It's pretty normal for arenas to rent sound equipment for an act. That's what the Fair normally does. And a lot of acts don't event bring all their musical instruments, so they rent saxophones, guitars, trumpets, things like that from local people
I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt Martina rents sound equipment or instruments.
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I have one more thing to add, since this reporter is making a big deal about the Band Perry making a profit. The fair probably booked them atleast 6 months ago, try and book them now, I guarantee there price has atleast doubled, lets just say they got lucky.
