Mirasa45A

Lorrie Morgan
Harrah's Metropolis
Metropolis, Ill.
May 10, 2008
Attendance/Capacity - 1,958/2,924 (2 shows)
Ticket Prices- $30/$10
Gross - $20,300


Ooh, Lorrie Morgan, I love her voice !!!!

CaReBeAr1463

awesome! thanks 4 doing this!

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carrieidol1

I wonder what percentage Carrie actually gets from each concert. Also Nan Kelly said last week that she has peroformed in front of over 600,000 fans already!!

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Mirasa45A

I do not know, but my wild guess is she gets around $ 200-250 K (thousands) per concert (this is low estimation).

teesharky

I honestly think Josh Turner was a bigger draw for carrie- leading to sell outs in almost every city for the first leg of the tour. Jason Michael Carroll is good- but he is a newbie and not that well known yet. Maybe that is why not as many cities sold out this time.

As Davilas said- hopefully the Fall tour will sell like the spring tour with josh, since Little Big Town and Carrie together are a great draw.

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cary78663

The gross ticket sales are around $300K per show. The promoter, the venue and Carrie's management all take a share. There are also expenses (the crew, the band, etc.). So Carrie's share is probably closer to $100K. But consider that even if Carrie only makes $50K per show, Carrie will have made somewhere nearly $7 million by the end of the tour. And that doesn't count merchandise sales.

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carrieidol1

I didn't mean how much she made personaly, that would be imposible. I meant to see how much all her touring together made to compare it to other Country tours to see if she could possbily get a nomination for EOTY.

davilas

Since I've been tracking tickets I know this is true. Just look at the sales for the Carrie/Keith tour and the capacities they put on sale and you can see where country usually does worse or better. The Midwest usually sells the best for country music. That's where Carrie did her best numbers. She sold out her Ohio concerts in June immediately too though I don't know if Ohio's considered Midwest or Northeast. :P For some reason a lot of Texas markets go slow for country and pop, that's something I've never understood. I've heard Houston is BRUTAL for sales especially for pop. But Carrie's been doing well in Texas. Louisiana's been a little weak lately too.

I read an article at Pulse that Arizona and Florida were really bad for sales now because they'd been hit so hard by foreclosures though Carrie did well in AZ in May. The Carolinas for reasons I don't understand usually are a little weaker in sales for country, same as Virginia. Atlanta Georgia is the shining light in the Deep South as a GREAT market for country music concerts. The Kentucky/Tennessee/Arkansas markets usually are good for country music. I think the Northwest is usually pretty good too. That's all I remember off the top of my head but where the concert is can make a very big difference in ticket sales.

carrieidol1

lol, its definately well deserved cash!!! She does such great live show's and deserves any and every penny made from the concerts...lol!!

Hil

Thank you to all you guys who put up numbers for us. I love reading the sales, tour and mediabase threads on this board.
I think Carrie has done fabulous for her first solo tour. She's got two albums out and is either selling out or coming really close to it. I do think Josh Turner is a hotter ticket than JMC, but I think LBT will really help fill those extra seats as well.

I would love to see Carrie and Brad do a tour like Reba and and Kelly C are doing. Of course I don't know how that would work, but I would love to see them do their own show and then kinda mingle duets in. Some of their own and of course some of the more famous ones throughout the years. I'm sure that's far fetched, but it would help Brad's sales, and I just love both of them in concert.

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teesharky

^ It is rather odd that the North and East coast, NW, etc- seem mto sell better for concert sales for Carrie, then the south--- which is supposed to be the core of country music. lol

davilas

This was already posted in other forums but since we've got a thread for tour statistics I wanted to bring it here too.

This is Pollstar's 2008 MidYear report on the top 100 tours. Keith and Carrie's tour is at #11 with $18.5 million grossed and Carrie's CR tour is at #27 with $12.3 million grossed.

http://images.pollstar.com/adverts/p...rs_limited.pdf

Desi posted a list of the country acts who made the top 100 too.

Artist / Gross in millions

1. Kenny Chesney 35.3
2. Rascal Flatts 25.4
3. Keith Urban/ Carrie Underwood 18.5
4. George Strait 18.0
5. Eagles 15.8
6. Tim McGraw 14.2
7. Carrie Underwood 12.3
8. Brad Paisley 9.4
9. "Rowdy Frynds" Lynyrd Sknyrd/ Hank Williams Jr. 8.5
10. Reba McEntire/ Kelly Clarkson 7.5
11. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 5.4
12. Anne Murray 4.7
13. Brooks & Dunn/ Alan Jackson 4.5
14. Martina McBride 3.9
15. Garth Brooks 3.8
16. Trace Adkins 3.8
17. Big & Rich 3.2
18. Dolly Parton 3.0

robinannhunt

Add the two tours together and carrie is #2.

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robinannhunt

It seems like JMC is not a big draw.