The attendance on tours from 89 and forward:

A Bigger Bang, 4.68 million, per show: 32,500
Licks 02-03, 3.4 million, per show: 29,059
Bridges to Babylon 97-99, 5.6 million, per show: 51,852
Voodoo Lounge 94-95, 6.57 million, per show: 50,969
Steel Wheels 89-90, ??

Does anyone know the official attendance number for Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle?



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what's the source?

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SW and UJ had about 6 million.
I once read that figure.

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SW and UJ had about 6 million.
I once read that figure.

Thx, I believe so also, would be interesting to find an official source!

I can't remember who posted these figures, but I believe it was georgelicks. This is just copied and pasted:

Stones Tours Attendance:
- 1989/90 - Steel Wheels 6.250.000
(3.200.000 US, 2.550.000 Europe, 500.000 Japan)

- 1994/95 - Voodoo Lounge 6.570.000
(2.650.000 US, 2.630.000 Europe, 952,000 South America/Africa, 337.000 Australia/New Zealand)

- 1997/99 - Bridges To Babylon 5.700.000
(2.500.000 US, 2.500.000 Europe, 700,000 South America/Japan)

- 2002/03 - Licks Tour 3.460.000
(1.507,000 US, 1.625.000 Europe, 333.000 Asia/Australia)



All official numbers:
Steel Wheels from Fortune
Voodoo Lounge and Bridges To Babylon from Billboard boxscore
Licks Tour from Billboard and Live Licks CD.


I have aprox. numbers for the 81-82 tour too (not 100% official):
1981: 2.000.000 attendance, $52.000.000 gross
1982: 2.000.000 attendance, $40.000.000 gross ($90.000.000 for the tour)


Tour Gross (official):
1989: $98.000.000
1990: $50.000.000 ($148.000.000 total)

1994: $121.000.000
1995: $199.000.000 ($320.000.000 total)

1997: $89.000.000
1998: $140.000.000
1999: $67.000.000 (US) / $25.000.000 (Europe)
Total: $320.000.000 (Billboard) *
* Other sources (Rolling Stone) said that the tour grossed $345 million.

2002: $87.900.000
2003: $211.600.000 ($299.500.000 total)

Someone asked a while back how many people the Stones had played to during their career. I reckoned it would be around 35 million. From these figures, maybe its a bit more

1962-1967 - 2 million (just over 1,000 shows)
1969 - 1978 4.5 - 5 million
1981-82 - 4 million
1989-90 - 6.25 million
1994-95 - 6.5 million
1997-99 - 5.7 million
2002-03 - 3.5 million
2005-07 - 4.7 million

Probably 37-38 million would be a good guess.

More than the population of Canada and approximately the population of Poland.



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I thought Voodoo made $124 million in the US.

Playing in front of 38 million is an impressive statistic.

I would be more interested in one of these statistics:

How many actual people have seen the Rolling Stones perform, or

How many times has the average person seen the Stones (this includes everyone who has seen them at least once).

Assuming the 35-38 million is accurate, with one stat, you can figure out the other. OK, who cares, but as a person who crunches numbers as a part of my living, this interests me.

I wondered what the attendence comaprison would be between 1981 & 1989. SW had more people (all stadiums shows), but 81 seemed to have more people at individual shows (90,782 Philly, 87,500 New Orleans, 90,000 LA, 73,000 San Francisco etc.) The only SW shows that reached those figures was LA.

the average attendee (over 85% of fans if we apply a common model) is seeing the stones for the first time that tour and is logarithmically less likely to have seen them more than once each tour as time moves on.

OLDKR