“I’m going to the places where people can afford to see somebody who goes on a world tour.”
Hey now! Sweden is a hotspot for great metal concerts!
it is these days you couldn’t say that back in the 70s and '80s much from what I understand
Please for the love of God tell me there is a genre called troll rock
looks like only the important places
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Come to Brazil
If it ain’t a metal band, good luck with that
Really makes me wonder why they don’t come here more considering shows always sellout. Maybe it’s the exchange rate
Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.
I live there and artists go on Australian tours and don’t even come to the Northern Territory.
Could probably change Australia to 3 red circles for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.
Done. Should I put it in Tupperware or ziplock?
Tupperware please, they have the most storage
Why are we even coloured in? World tour means Canada, UK, Germany, maybe France or Netherlands.
We are usually a down under tour with Sydney, maybe Melbourne, and Brisbane if they are kind. Poor NZ though.
“Canada” means two nights in Toronto and then right back down to the States.
Poor NZ though
As someone who has paid out the arse for flights from Wellington to Melbourne to attend an (also expensive) concert, I appreciate the empathy.
The travel isn’t the end of the world (it’s only a 3 hour and change flight), but of course the prices go way, way up around the dates of major events.
Then you also have Metallica who played Antarctica.
They have a song called “trapped under ice” and of course they decided to NOT play it on their tour in fucking antartica
Why the fuck would a global tour go to places that can’t afford tickets?
You mean like Norway?
Even Norway wouldn’t pay the ticket costs. You realize that taking a tour to Norway, when there’s no other reasonable options for shows nearby means Norwegians would be paying a massive premium for the artist to get there right?
You realize I am Norwegian and know what people here are willing to pay for seeing less known artists go live.
Just check prices for anything live at Oslo spectrum, or DNB Arena.
Lesser known artists don’t have the overhead global super stars do. Selling 50k tickets in Norway, would have to be thousands of dollars each to cover the costs because there’s nowhere nearby they could travel to efficiently and perform again.
You live in a far away place surrounded by places that don’t have a high level of expendable income. I live in a similarly hard to access, not wealthy place and wouldn’t expect Taylor Swift or the like to be passing thru at all.
Meanwhile, tickets in Norway:
- X Ambassadors - ca. $45 (February 2024)
- Jason Derulo - ca. $60 (March 2024)
- Jonas Brothers - ca. $60 (June 2024)
Similar prices for when Taylor Swift was here last…Most people in Norway have a good salary, and live very comfortably. Most Norwegians can afford to go to concerts or other entertainment.
Norway is far from some Third World country, that apparently seem to be what some people think.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯there’s nowhere nearby they could travel to efficiently and perform again.
What? Like airplanes don’t exist? Or idk this thing called cars?Travelling in, to or from Norway is far from difficult or expensive
6-hour drive, Oslo - Stockholm
6-hour drive, Oslo - CopenhagenWhat’s Taylor’s tickets going for now? I’ve never considered Norway anything other than a very wealthy country. That’s not really the issue it hand here though. The issue is that it’s very remote and traveling there is very expensive which would need to be factored into ticket prices which are already very high on these tours that we’re seeing. That you think these concerts easily pack up onto a plane or a freaking car just shows you have no idea the scale of performance that you’re talking about. Jason Derulo does not have near the stage setup that someone like Taylor Swift would have. That’s just an indisputable fact.
Also, and serious question…if these artists thought they could make money do you think they intentionally skip your country? These are now billion dollar events. They have actuaries that tell them where they can maximize their profits. They can’t make their money in Norway so they don’t go. Just like they can’t make their money in Regina Saskatchewan so they don’t go.
i like how my country is circles red yet in the last 15 or so odd years i never heard of any world tour actually coming to us
That’s a lot of Canada colored in for Toronto and maybe Vancouver
For the US section … I think they skip coloring Alaska too.
As someone from Alaska, this hurts! I live out of state currently so can’t speak for recent or upcoming, but when I was a kid larger bands would come through. Metallica, Kiss, Megadeth & Pantera (I went to those last two) etc. Basically, large bands with good pull. Although, Jewel was going to play once when she was huge but canceled because not enough tickets were sold (Kiss played that night/venue instead ⚡)
I was just guessing … I’m from northern Ontario in Canada … I live near Sudbury and whenever there are major concerts, it’s always Toronto, which is about four hours from here … and that’s just the distance travellilng to get there, you basically have to set aside two days to attend a concert because if its a major event, thousands of people are doing the same and there will be no hotels, no parking, no taxis, no transport and everything will be expensive … and even if you’ve paid for everything, expect hours to get to the venue and hours to leave because of all the traffic.
Ugh, yeah that’s awful. I meant “this hurts” as my frustration at lack of bands playing there!
As a recent transplant from the US living in not Toronto or Vancouver, I agree.
To be fair to the artist though, I don’t think many US tours include any stops in Montana or the Dakotas (nevermind Hawaii or Alaska).
Yo what about Banff
(1st) World Tour!
I’ve seen World tours with stops only in the US and UK
Portugal cyka blat
How about the baseball world series?
A lot of artists don’t have the bandwidth to go to every single country. So they have to choose.
The other parts aren’t worth visiting
I wonder how many Dream Theater fans there are in North Korea.
Pretty sure getting caught singing Pull Me Under is seen as attempting to defect to the south and met with execution.
