At an average of £50 per ticket, which band do you think could sell out the most consecutive nights at the O2 Arena? (Band must either currently exist, or be able to reform)
Prince sold out 21 consective nights at the o2. Michael Jackson was (I think) scheduled to do around 40 or so before he died.
But which band do you think could sell out the most consecutive nights, if tickets averaged at the fairly reasonable price of £50? It can either be a currently active band (Radiohead, Rolling Stones) or a reformed band where a reformation is still possible because all main members are alive, even if it's not very likely (Oasis, The Smiths, The Jam etc).
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Also, once you've chosen a band, have a guess at how many nights you think they could do,
using the Prince/Michael Jackson examples as a guideline.
Cementimental
Prince didn't play to the full capacity of the O2
It can't have been far off
I went to one night. Obviously the stage used floor space, but it also freed up the seating that would normally not be used on account of being behind the stage...
He also didn't charge £50, he charged £31.21
Donno if Oasis or The Jam would pull enough of a crowd
Unrelated but don't people like Dolly Parton do months worth of consecutive nights in Vegas, Elvis style?
But I think someone like the Smiths could probably pull quite a large number of nights, not that they ever would.
Other huge dad-rock acts like Beach Boys w/the Mike Love/Brian Wilson line-up could probably do a fair few dates (donno if they'd manage as many as 40 that Jackson planned though).
The most number in a row would almost certainly be something like U2 or Rolling Stones.
Rolling Stones
60 nights?
The Floyd.
I hear Rick Wright's having issues with his timing these days.
Too soon.
i'd say
Led Zeppelin, 25 dates
Bootleg Beatles
Fleetwood Mac
Cream
ABBA
30+
^good shout tbf
I think if I could get any band back together
and i could go see them it would be ABBA.
Fleetwood Mac would run them pretty close in terms of shifting tickets, as would Led Zep, probably between 25 and 30 nights. The Smiths about 20/25.
Would people stop mentioning Led Zep plz
and read the OP.
ABBA WERE
offered a run at the O2 in the wake of Jacko's death, it was a kneejerk reaction to the promoters and venue losing out over such a lerge space of time. They of course refused and quite right too.
Rihanna did 10... she could probably do a few more.
The Beatles
...with holographic John and George.
Could do at least four weeks, if marketed properly.
I think Pink Floyd
Or Abba.
Or Neutral milk hotel, avery Island line-up
Queen
With decent guest vocalists.
15 nights maybe at least?
I hate queen.
Nah
Remeber Sonisphere cancelling?
Adele
5 nights?
GaGa could probably do 10+ if she wanted to.
The Smiths?
Probably better off at the M.E.N though.
ABBA's probably the best shout so far.
Bay City Rollers
I'm not sure they ever reformed did they?
Madonna could do at least 15 nights if it was billed as a greatest tits event. Hits I mean. The massive whore.
Pink Floyd probably have enough fans to do a month.
And Abba would be such a novelty that might work.
Paul and Ringo doing classic Beatles songs (maybe with Sean Lennon and some other guitarist) would be a huge draw too, surely.
Pink Floyd
People would travel from all over the world for them if they were only doing London dates. I don't think there are as many Smiths fans worldwide that would bother.
If kept to £50
I would imagine that Take That could do a month or so.
I was gonna say Take That
But they sold out 8 days at Wembley @ 12,500 capacity, and O2 is 20,000, so I doubt they could do much more than a week.
I take that back
They did 8 nights at Wembley Stadium which is 90,000, not the arena...
Fuck.
maths
8 * 90,000 = 720,000
/ 20,000
= 36 nights
but is wembley actually 90,000 for gigs?
More if it's seated too
75,000 to 90,000 seated and 15,000 standing.
ABBA is the correct answer
Pretty sure I read somewhere that if they reformed and played gigs there'd be a HUGE demand. Total sell out, gig after gig. £££'s all the way.
Wonder how many nights the Stone Roses would sell?
^this
Mamma Mia! has created a huge resurgence in Abba loving
Stone Roses' gigs at Finsbury Park gigs haven't even sold out.
michael jackson
somehow
Erm
Bizarrely, the answer to this at present appears to be Michael Buble. Check out how many nights he's sold out...
10 DATES!?
I reckon Celine Dion would do pretty well as well.
good shout on radiohead tbh
Probably Barbara Streisand at £50 per ticket.
She normally charges alot more.
At £50 a ticket
I reckon Barbara Streisand could do a massive run. 30-40 nights
What about the original Guns 'N' Roses line up playing Appetite?
Surely over 20+ nights
Jacko had 50 dates lined up
Take that could play for 3 months.
take that played to 1,806,473 at the below venues in 2011, / 20,000 = 90.32 dates.
Stadium of Light
City of Manchester Stadium
Millennium Stadium
Croke Park
Hampden Park
Villa Park
Wembley Stadium
I think the real answer would be the stones if their only gigs world wide would be at the o2.
GWAR
50 dates
Don't be silly.
The venue wouldn't be able to withstand 2 nights of GWAR before they destroyed it!!
Bjork ?
Kiss
crazy nights
elvis
100 nights
madonna?
she could do a fair few. maybe 20/30
David Icke
All the nights.
Elton John - 20 nights easily
Dylan could do 3-5 night runs if he did album sets. I reckon for about 10 of his albums he could sell out every show. So 30-50 nights easy.
never heard of that band
are they good?
Surviving members of Pink Floyd
If it was £50 a ticket, and they were the only dates they were going to do - no world tour - could easily do 50 nights.
People would come from all over the world for it, and many would go to several of the gigs.
Would be such a shame if this happened in the O2.
Why?
There's no other venue in London, possibly even in the world of that size that comes anywhere close to the O2.