{"id":20158,"date":"2019-10-24T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=20158"},"modified":"2019-10-24T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:36:19","slug":"a-10-million-start-for-the-madame-x-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2019\/a-10-million-start-for-the-madame-x-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"A $10 Million Start for the Madame X Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billboard Boxscore<\/strong> started counting the figures for the 16 Madame X<\/strong> theatre shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music<\/strong>, with a combined gross of $9.6 million and 31,401 tickets – each night was sold out.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt of the article from billboard.com<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Madonna Gets $10 Million Start on Madame X Tour With Brooklyn Theater Shows<\/h4>\n

After touring arenas and stadiums for much of the last four decades, Madonna<\/strong> is experimenting with a new format for her live shows, playing mini-residencies in theaters around the world.<\/p>\n

The Madame X Tour<\/strong> kicked off with a sold-out 16-show run at Brooklyn\u2019s Howard Gilman Opera House<\/strong> (the theater is one of many facilities at BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music). Averaging less than 2,000 seats per night, Madonna played to intimate audiences over the span of a month. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the shows combined to gross $9.6 million and sold 31,401 tickets.<\/p>\n

Broken out by month, Madonna\u2019s nine shows in September<\/strong> grossed $5.5 million (17,708 tickets), followed by seven shows from October<\/strong> 1-12 that earned $4.1 million (13,693 tickets). That averages out to $601,985<\/strong> and 1,963<\/strong> tickets per show.<\/p>\n

Playing such intimate shows means that the extended stay at each venue is necessary in order to capture the wide-ranging audience that Madonna has previously been able to reach in just one or two shows per city. Tickets for the new tour ranged from $757 on the high end to $50. Based on the New York stint\u2019s final figures, the average ticket sold for $306.73 – a sharp increase from her career average of $115.81.<\/p>\n

For a more comparative look, excluding the 1980s and ’90s before ticketing exploded in the new millennium, Madonna averaged $125.46 in the 2000s and $147.33 in the current decade. Averaging as many as 41,000 fans per night on the 2008-09 Sticky & Sweet Tour, Madonna had the flexibility of charging a more reasonable ticket. But with fewer than 2,000 tickets to sell each night in 2019, she\u2019s experimenting with higher prices.<\/p>\n

Read the full article on billboard.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billboard Boxscore<\/strong> started counting the figures for the 16 Madame X<\/strong> theatre shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music<\/strong>, with a combined gross of $9.6 million and 31,401 tickets – each night was sold out. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[719],"tags":[480,720],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/madamex-tour_001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-5f8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20159,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20158\/revisions\/20159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}