Have there been any studies comparing concert tickets sales to album sales?

[johnfrank1970]

The sales numbers for Queensryche and Symphony X brought this question to my mind.

4 QUEENSRYCHE – DEDICATED TO CHAOS
Last week: 8,209 (debut)

29 SYMPHONY X – ICONOCLAST
Last week: 2,581
Cume: 9,984

These numbers seem staggeringly low to me, given that both bands tour regularly. I wonder how album sales compare to concert ticket sales. If they are approximately equivalent, then Symphony X has a pool of 10,000 people in the US that might attend one of their shows? I guess that could make sense financially - 40 shows with 250 tickets sold per show.

Thoughts?

 

[Harvester]

I guess that could make sense financially - 40 shows with 250 tickets sold per show.

Thoughts?

Paradise Lost sold 60,000+ copies in North America. The days of only having 250 people show up at a SX show are long gone (save East Bumblefuck, Bumfuck-Egypt, etc).

 

[AngraRULES]

Paradise Lost sold 60,000+ copies in North America. The days of only have 250 people show up at a SX show are long gone (save East Bumblefuck, Bumfuck, Egypt, etc).

I heard they did well in Tunisia??

 

[Harvester]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bumfuck,_Egypt

 

[AngraRULES]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bumfuck,_Egypt

Oh.



Hey, I had to learn that one at some point, right? After all, it's only been 11 years in America...

 

[johnfrank1970]

Paradise Lost sold 60,000+ copies in North America. The days of only having 250 people show up at a SX show are long gone (save East Bumblefuck, Bumfuck-Egypt, etc).

OK. I guess their CD sales are spread out over a long period of time then, as they have sold 50,000 fewer copies of their new album so far. I would have thought sales were more front-loaded.

Do you have any knowledge regarding album sales vs. ticket sales in general? Thanks.