{"id":432,"date":"2003-12-07T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-07T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/simon-and-garfunkel-help-define-a-new-high-end\/"},"modified":"2003-12-07T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-07T16:06:47","slug":"simon-and-garfunkel-help-define-a-new-high-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/simon-and-garfunkel-help-define-a-new-high-end\/","title":{"rendered":"simon and garfunkel help define a new high end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the pair is in the middle of a 42-date tour,  and just reported results for the first 14 dates.  so rather than wait for the final answers,  i thought i&#8217;d play with some numbers for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>12 of the 14 reported dates were &#8220;sellouts&#8221; (this may not mean what you think it means, but that&#8217;s ok).  reported gross is $22.4 million with attendance of 209,679.<\/p>\n<p>$22.4 million\/14 = $1.6 million per show.<br \/>\n209,679\/14 = 14,977 people per show.<\/p>\n<p>$1.6 million * 42 =  $67.2 million for the tour.<br \/>\n14,977 * 42 = 629,034 people for the tour.<\/p>\n<p>a quick <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/music_monopolies.html\">flashback<\/a> to the revenue of top music acts shows that this projection puts simon and garfunkel right in the neighborhood of sir paul mccartney, and way above the next-runner-up rolling stones.<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s the new plateau for tours:  $60+ million.  that&#8217;s a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/doing_the_ramen_math.html\">ramen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>anything less and you&#8217;re just not serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the pair is in the middle of a 42-date tour, and just reported results for the first 14 dates. so rather than wait for the final answers, i thought i&#8217;d play with some numbers for a bit. 12 of the 14 reported dates were &#8220;sellouts&#8221; (this may not mean what you think it means, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}