May 6, 2014

Sold Out Show Like Lady Gaga?

Lady Gaga's second stop on the artRAVE tour is tonight in Atlanta, Georgia.

Unfortunately for her, the show didn't sell out.




Even minutes leading up to the show you could still "Find Tickets" for the Philips Arena.

If the show was sold out, or nearly sold out, there would have been a notice like this:


I don't know exactly how many tickets were left unsold, but here's the seating map for the tickets still available for Thursday's Pittsburgh show.






Gagadaily is reporting the numbers:
MAY 06 - ATLANTA - Philips Arena - GA SOLD OUT - 12,349/14,000 (87%)
MAY 08 - PITTSBURGH - Consol Energy Center - GA SOLD OUT - 12,161/13,500 (90%)

But looking at the map above, that sure doesn't look like 90% of tickets sold. And you can clearly see the GA isn't sold out.

So what do you guys think? Are the numbers fudged? Are we going to be seeing empty sections of the Philips Arena tonight?

Update: Little Monsters everywhere are determined to let the world know that their "fave" can "slay". They're tweeting like mad about the "sold out" show and including pics like this one:


Click on the photo for a closeup.

I went ahead and circled the areas with the most empty seats. If you look between the circles you can see a lot more.

Now why someone would send this picture out into the world with the caption "sold out show", when there's clearly a good 1/5 of the seats still empty? Do they think we can't see the empty spaces?