Ecco qui un'analisi sulle vendite per i 25 show, fonte U2songs
Sphere Shows Selling Well
Tickets for the U2 performances are going quickly for U2’s 25 shows at The Sphere in Las Vegas, but there are still options left via Ticketmaster to purchase tickets. One of the features of the Ticketmaster site is you can see the ticket availability for individual shows, and right now based on what is showing as available, these 25 shows in Las Vegas have sold very well.
While it would be nice to say that this is a true reflection of sales, we know that Ticketmaster may hold back some tickets in order to sell less desirable ones. But as we get closer to the actual shows, doing that becomes less likely. The numbers presented below are the tickets that were available at Ticketmaster at 9pm on Saturday August 26, and may not reflect total availability.
Right now what’s available? Overall the band are expected to play for 20,000 per night, for a total of a half-million tickets being sold. And U2 seem well on their way to a sell out. Right now four shows are marked as sold out, an additional show is not marked as a sell out but no tickets are available. Looking at all 25 shows overall, 2.57% of the tickets are still available for these shows across all 25. (97.43% of tickets have sold.)
There are five weeks to go before the first show, which is one of the sold out shows. That’s five additional weeks to advertise the show. We are told that the band will start advertising these shows on the outside of the Sphere soon. And on Friday night “performing tonight” banners went up briefly on the outside as they tested new graphics.
How are the sales going? Again, based purely on what Ticketmaster shows is still available we can see no tickets available in the 400 level section, and no tickets available in the Red Zone or GA sections. Less that 300 tickets are available in the 300-level seats across all of these shows, and the first show with any availability in this section is the December 2 show. There are about 1300 tickets available currently in the 200-level seats across all of the shows, and the first show showing availability is the October 18 show.
Most of the tickets currently available are at the back of the 100-level section, tickets which Ticketmaster have notified people contain a limited view of the screens but a full view of the band. These sections are completely available at some of the later dates. All are marked with warnings about the view of the screens.
As expected the middle sections are more popular than the sides, with section 101 and 110 on the far right and far left being the least popular. Based on the availability showing, Adam’s side of the venue is slightly more popular than The Edge’s side of the venue. This may be due to the positioning of the Red Zone in diagrams, which is on Edge’s side of the venue, between these sections and the stage.
If you are looking for tickets, the Saturday nights are most popular, and have the least amount of availability. The Fridays are also popular, and the Wednesday nights still have the most tickets available. However, the show with the most ticket availability still has only 8.47% of the overall tickets available, suggesting that it’s 91.53% sold. (The December 13, 2023 show is the show with the current most availability.)
As stated, these numbers are reflective only on what Ticketmaster is currently selling through their site. Another outlet, the Vibee ticket and hotel packages and VIP packages also do have inventory left, and last week ads started appearing on Facebook for “additional floor ticket packages available”. Unknown quantities would be available there. Also, just because this is all that is available now via Ticketmaster, they may still have additional inventories that will be listed in the weeks to come.
But overall based on what is available, and the fact that Ticketmaster is making offers to buy back some tickets for the earlier shows, suggests the sales are going well. Whether this is to individual concert goers or if a large number were sold to casinos, ticket brokers etc. remains to be seen as well. U2 fans may be used to seeing sold out shows by this point in time, but this is the first time that U2 has used variable pricing on tickets, which is designed to have tickets available for purchase right up until the day of the show, with ticket prices being reduced as demand reduces.
For more coverage of U2’s shows at The Sphere, please visit our U2 show archive. For those wondering, no, we didn’t count dots by hand, we tested and used a tool developed for counting objects based on colour and shape, and spot checked some of the results to ensure accuracy of the results. Thanks to Justin for inspiring me to take a closer look.