Depends on how you define "tipping point." It's a Sunday night in Arizona and the show is ~9 months away. If you look at the map zoomed in... There's plenty of tickets sold throughout the stadium. So if the tipping point is MCR being able to sell out shows quickly? Yeah, obviously. Because they've shown they are sticking around, this is tour #3 (right?) without any new music, etc. But there's still demand there. People just aren't panic-purchasing or paying exorbitant prices because why would they. And I'm not sure why OP is saying it's "embarrassing" because it's just sorta normal?
Citi Field MCR still has a lot of platinum priced tickets which I assume will drop to standard closer to show state.
Exclusive | Poison's 40th anniversary tour nixed after Bret Michaels demands 600% more money than bandmates Lmao, saw this headline and had a nice chuckle
East Coast appeal for Sphere events would probably move the needle enough for it be worth it while not really engaging with the DC concert universe too much.
6000 seems really small for something that extravagant. Like turnstile just played a 6000 cap in Nashville
But exclusivity often drives demand so you can only imagine what the prices of those shows would look like
I knew Pup were big on their home turf, but I had no idea they were big enough to co-headline with Jimmy in an amphitheater. That rocks
DC also has a 6k room, one of the bigger large GA rooms. It pulls a lot of arena shows to play multiple nights. Can’t imagine a Sphere is competing much with the local climate there. Idk the math obviously but I imagine a smaller sphere + similar price points + similar exclusive events would pull higher margins than the massive Vegas Sphere that only a few artists can play massive residencies against.
The guys saying embarrassing because people can't just be normal anymore. Everything has to be an extreme. Agree with you. Not every show has to sell out instantly, or even sell out at all. If that was the case and the expectation, touring would be dead. I also agree that McR needs to release new music if they're going to keep going. Sure they have their diehards, but I've seen them twice now and that's enough without anything new added to the mix.
Feels like the tour to me (PUP even says "Where else should we do this?" in their post). I assume this will be the biggest show and the only one where Pup is billed as a co-headliner. Pretty common lately for bands to announce one big show first then the tour a few weeks later.