celeb news Meghan Trainor In Tears During Concert For Selling Out Madison Square Garden

[Europe]

Meghan has been quitely slaying all summer on her sold out arena tour. Are you surprised she is somehow selling out big venues?

[Tylerbv]

People love to hate on her but she's actually very sweet. Keeping selling out, Megatrone  

[Doctor Dick]

She sold out MSG? That's impressive.

 

Although MSG was the line only mega stars would cross back in the 90s and 2000s I feel like it's no longer as relevant because of the concert boom and now it's who sells out the SoFi stadium in LA the most times. But still congrats to Meghan because it's still a big thing and is the equivalent of selling out Radio City Music Hall in the 2000s. 

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[Princess Aurora]

Cute

[Almighty Gaga]

She deserves all the success

[dussel_06]

She's so sweet and silently slaying.

She's not called the Katy Perry with a Grammy for no reason.

[smartalek22]

Her career trajectory is honestly insane to me but she definitely deserves this 

[Gaia]

1 hour ago, Doctor Dick said:

She sold out MSG? That's impressive.

 

Although MSG was the line only mega stars would cross back in the 90s and 2000s I feel like it's no longer as relevant because of the concert boom and now it's who sells out the SoFi stadium in LA the most times. But still congrats to Meghan because it's still a big thing and is the equivalent of selling out Radio City Music Hall in the 2000s. 

I had friends go for like $5. It may have sold out but like at what costs  

[BornUnbroken]

I used to hate on her kinda bad, but honestly she's very talented and her last album was a nice throwback while still putting a lot of modern touches to her production. I'm glad she's doing well touring wise

[Sheep]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

I had friends go for like $5. It may have sold out but like at what costs  

If every ticket was $5 then the show grossed 100k, artist cut is usually 30% so a $30,000 payday for a single night of work is still huge for an artist of her size. But every ticket wasn't $5 and you know that. 

 

2 hours ago, Doctor Dick said:

She sold out MSG? That's impressive.

 

Although MSG was the line only mega stars would cross back in the 90s and 2000s I feel like it's no longer as relevant because of the concert boom and now it's who sells out the SoFi stadium in LA the most times. But still congrats to Meghan because it's still a big thing and is the equivalent of selling out Radio City Music Hall in the 2000s. 

These mental gymnastics to label this as anything other than a sold out arena. Sold out stadium tours have been a thing since the 60s. I don't even like Meghan but the replies in here are messy  

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[BrattyBottom]

I could sell out MSG too if I was giving out tickets for the same price as a ham and cheese roll and orange drink at the bodega 

[ICLDXU4HS]

Xila stans were mean AF to her. She deserves it.

[Katamari]

1 hour ago, Gaia said:

I had friends go for like $5. It may have sold out but like at what costs  

All tickets should be that cheap 

 

queen of saving fans money and selling out msg  

[Doctor Dick]

13 minutes ago, Sheep said:

These mental gymnastics to label this as anything other than a sold out arena. Sold out stadium tours have been a thing since the 60s. I don't even like Meghan but the replies in here are messy  

Well no. Stadiums were reserved for legacy acts that did rock music and Michael Jackson/Madonna. Not even boybands that did 1M+ first week could do a stadium back then. Nowadays, artists that are barely a decade into their career can do stadiums like The Weeknd or BTS and they are the direct equivalent of a Justin Timberlake or the Backstreet Boys in the 2000s. 

 

Justin Timberlake couldn't even sell out stadiums (or wasn't allowed to would be better to say since the industry as a whole never thought it would be possible) during FutureSex/LoveSounds which spun three back-to-back #1 singles, that's BACK-TO-BACK and had the biggest pop male release basically bigger than anything released by The Weeknd and yet he still didn't do stadiums. Further, Harry Styles who has yet to outsell Timberlake with the same background and number of albums is already doing stadiums with his third era despite it not being as big as JT's biggest era. A simple pop music history check will do you no harm. I'm not even a Meghan hater or anything but an artist of her status would simply not be able to fill out MSG in the 2000s, it's like if Ashanti was doing that in 2006 (fun-fact: she was NOT). 

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[ICLDXU4HS]

What if she's on Brat and it's completely different but also still brat?

[Sheep]

6 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

Well no. Stadiums were reserved for legacy acts that did rock music and Michael Jackson/Madonna. Not even boybands that did 1M+ first week could do a stadium back then. Nowadays, artists that are barely a decade into their career can do stadiums like The Weeknd or BTS and they are the direct equivalent of a Justin Timberlake or the Backstreet Boys in the 2000s. 

Those "legacy acts" were also selling out stadiums at their peaks, in the 1960s. Madonna and Michael did plenty of stadium shows in the 80s as well. You just made all this up.

 

 

The simple answer here is that Justin Timberlake and the Backstreet Boys weren't on the level of Michael, Madonna, Elton, The Beatles, The Stones, etc.

U2 went on some of the biggest tours of all time during the 00s.

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[PrettyHurts]

People make fun of her but her career is impressive 

[gimmelaugh]

She deserves all the success  I saw a lot of people being cruel to her but I think it's completely unwarranted, she's a great singer, she found her lane that she's successful in and honestly she just makes her music and minds her business and gets a hit once in a while. A queen

[Doctor Dick]

4 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Those "legacy acts" were also selling out stadiums at their peaks, in the 1960s. Madonna and Michael did plenty of stadium shows in the 80s as well. You just made all this up.

 

 

The simple answer here is that Justin Timberlake and the Backstreet Boys weren't on the level of Michael, Madonna, Elton, The Beatles, The Stones, etc.

U2 went on some of the biggest tours of all time during the 00s.

So you're saying The Weeknd, BTS, Karol G, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny ARE on the level of Madonna, The Beatles, Michael, The Stones? 

 

And you're saying Meghan is at the level of popularity NOW that Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Eminem and Beyoncé were in the 2000s? 

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[Pheromosa]

i love to hate on her but this is very sweet

[Sheep]

7 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

So you're saying The Weeknd, BTS, Karol G, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny ARE on the level of Madonna, The Beatles, Michael, The Stones? 

 

Or you're saying Meghan is at the level of popularity NOW that Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Eminem and Beyoncé were in the 2000s? 

I'm saying that BTS and The Weeknd are two of the biggest music acts of all time and easily surpass Justin Timberlake and Backstreet Boys. 

 

Touring is bigger now than it was in the 00s but you claimed that stadiums weren't really a thing until recently which is categorically false. Meghan had 20,000 people watching her any way you try to spin it. 20k is never the "equivalent" of 60k or 5k, this isn't chartmasters its the real world. and stadium tours didn't appear overnight in the 2010s.

 

Again, U2 had the biggest tours of all time in the 00s. Stadiums didn't vanish during that decade. Peaking legends have been in stadiums all the way since the 60s. Even Gaga was playing stadiums on her 2nd tour in 2012.

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[anastaciabby]

25 minutes ago, BrattyBottom said:

I could sell out MSG too if I was giving out tickets for the same price as a ham and cheese roll and orange drink at the bodega 

could you though? lbr 

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[anastaciabby]

I don't even bother listening to Meghans music cause I know I won't f with it but she seems so nice and it's not like everyone is selling out shows lbr, y'all love to call people flops here but all these pop artists you guys talk about  are huge touring wise, you should see the bands I see for like 30 bucks at like Stubb's, now those are small venue artist that were "big" back in the day 

[Doctor Dick]

1 minute ago, Sheep said:

I'm saying that BTS and The Weeknd are two of the biggest music acts of all time and easily surpass Justin Timberlake and Backstreet Boys. 

 

Touring is bigger now than it was in the 00s but you claimed that stadiums weren't really a thing until recently which is categorically false. Meghan had 20,000 people watching her any way you try to spin it. 20k is never the "equivalent" of 60k or 5k, this isn't chartmasters its the real world. and stadium tours didn't appear overnight in the 2010s.

 

Again, U2 had the biggest tours of all time in the 00s. Stadiums didn't vanish during that decade. Peaking legends have been in stadiums all the way since the 60s. Even Gaga was playing stadiums on her 2nd tour in 2012.

Concert boom is a real thing. There are articles about it. So yeah, that means that someone at JT's peak popularity where 20k would buy tickets to his show would now have been 60k because more people are willing to go: https://www.loudersound.com/news/global-demand-for-live-concerts-is-unprecedented

 

And that first statement... are you being obtuse on purpose? You just said touring is bigger now, so that settles it. And that also means that more people are willing to go than in the 2000s. That's like saying that The Beatles or Elvis weren't as big as Justin Timberlake because they couldn't sell out 20k tickets for one show in the 1960s But BTS are in no way shape or form bigger than the freaking Backstreet Boys who are the best-selling boyband of all time and reached 100M record sales with just four releases from 1996-2002. They have TWO back-to-back DIAMOND albums and you're telling me they wouldn't have sold out a stadium show nowadays with the same popularity?  I mean does this look like someone who would be less popular than BTS: 

 

[Sheep]

10 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

That's like saying that The Beatles or Elvis weren't as big as Justin Timberlake because they couldn't sell out 20k tickets for one show in the 1960s 

This is what a Beatles crowd looked like in the 60s. Not in Timberlake's wildest dreams. 

 

 

This is what a Madonna crowd looked like in the 80s

 

Stadiums have never been reserved for legacy acts, the 00s just brought a weak crop of pop/rock artists.

 

10 minutes ago, Doctor Dick said:

But BTS are in no way shape or form bigger than the freaking Backstreet Boys who are the best-selling boyband of all time and reached 100M record sales with just four releases from 1996-2002. They have TWO back-to-back DIAMOND albums and you're telling me they wouldn't have sold out a stadium show nowadays with the same popularity? 

BTS are the highest streamed group/band of any kind. They are the 11th most streamed act period. Their shows sell on par with Taylor, their albums move similar numbers too. There is NO universe where a group managing all of this despite coming from a small country releasing music in a language almost nobody ww understands is anything short of legendary. I literally hate all of their music but let's not be deluded.

Edited September 29 by Sheep