Rolling Stones Tickets Gather Moss as $600 Seats for Sale
The Rolling Stones are finding out: you can’t always get what
you want.
With the group’s “50 and Counting” tour kicking off in Los Angeles on May 3, pairs of $600 floor seats are still available for Staples Center arena, based on the sales website of Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. AEG, owner of Staples, is promoting the Rolling Stones tour.
“To anyone not working in investment banking, these are extremely expensive tickets,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in- chief of Pollstar, a concert-industry magazine.
To fill Staples Center, AEG has begun lowering prices. More $85 tickets are being made available, the band said yesterday at Rollingstones.com. Those are the only tickets sold out for the May 3 show, according to the AEG website.
“By the time the show starts, they’ll fill every seat at the arena,” Bongiovanni said in a phone interview. “It just won’t be with people who paid $600 a seat.”
Michael Roth, a spokesman for AEG in Los Angeles, declined to comment. Bob Lefsetz, publisher of an industry e-mail newsletter, wrote about the availability of seats earlier today.
The Stones announced plans for their nine-city North American tour on April 3. There will also be shows in Oakland and San Jose in California; Las Vegas; Anaheim, California; Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.
Last year, the Stones marked their 50th anniversary, having first played at the Marquee Club in London in 1962. They played dates at the O2 London, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, New York, and the Prudential Center Newark.
The last major tour by Mick Jagger’s men was A Bigger Bang, which had revenue of $558 million from 2005 to 2007, according to Billboard. The U2 360 shows generated $736 million from 2009 to 2011, Billboard reported.
With the group’s “50 and Counting” tour kicking off in Los Angeles on May 3, pairs of $600 floor seats are still available for Staples Center arena, based on the sales website of Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. AEG, owner of Staples, is promoting the Rolling Stones tour.
“To anyone not working in investment banking, these are extremely expensive tickets,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in- chief of Pollstar, a concert-industry magazine.
To fill Staples Center, AEG has begun lowering prices. More $85 tickets are being made available, the band said yesterday at Rollingstones.com. Those are the only tickets sold out for the May 3 show, according to the AEG website.
“By the time the show starts, they’ll fill every seat at the arena,” Bongiovanni said in a phone interview. “It just won’t be with people who paid $600 a seat.”
Michael Roth, a spokesman for AEG in Los Angeles, declined to comment. Bob Lefsetz, publisher of an industry e-mail newsletter, wrote about the availability of seats earlier today.
The Stones announced plans for their nine-city North American tour on April 3. There will also be shows in Oakland and San Jose in California; Las Vegas; Anaheim, California; Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.
Last year, the Stones marked their 50th anniversary, having first played at the Marquee Club in London in 1962. They played dates at the O2 London, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, New York, and the Prudential Center Newark.
The last major tour by Mick Jagger’s men was A Bigger Bang, which had revenue of $558 million from 2005 to 2007, according to Billboard. The U2 360 shows generated $736 million from 2009 to 2011, Billboard reported.
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