In other news, rich artists tend to focus on locations likely to provide a profit and that they're likely to survive the visit.
100sad finnish noises
8I think a lot of people have a misconception about how much money modern musicians are making
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There's an error there, Tasmania is coloured red. They never visit Tasmania. You live in Tasmania, you want to see your favourite band, it's a plane ticket and a hotel stay, plus ticket. So close and yet so far. I hear the Tasmanians have given up and just built a huge ear horn, to collectively use.
74Except when they come and play exclusively for Dark Mofo and then leave. To be fair to you though, that's rarely part of a "world tour"
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That's a lot of Canada colored in for Toronto and maybe Vancouver
51As 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).
10For the US section .... I think they skip coloring Alaska too.
6?? What about when the Internet sent pitbull to Kodiak?
9As 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 ⚡)
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Yo what about Banff
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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.
32Why 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.
24Poor 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.
11"Canada" means two nights in Toronto and then right back down to the States.
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Could probably change Australia to 3 red circles for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
9Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.
Done. Should I put it in Tupperware or ziplock?
6Tupperware please, they have the most storage
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Then you also have Metallica who played Antarctica.
25They have a song called "trapped under ice" and of course they decided to NOT play it on their tour in fucking antartica
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Smaller metal bands don't often have the means to tour off the beaten path. Just the logistics of organising tours in e.g. South America or Africa are likely prohibitively expensive.
Some bigger rock and metal bands have actually been pretty good in touring places that aren't just the standard tour countries.
23Smaller bands? Fucking Mastodon are losing money when they go on an international tour nowadays... Times are fucking hard for anyone who isn't a superstar, support the bands you like in any way you can!
3Rage Against The Machine went to play for guerillas in the jungle once, does that count?
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You forgot the part where the US is only CA and NY.
22And Canada is just Toronto
9Or in some cases not Canada at all . But definitely not where I live .
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And australia is only Sydney and Melbourne (this coming from a Perth lad)
8For musical tours it's usually something more like: Seattle, LA, a big city in Texas, Minneapolis OR Chicago, Atlanta, NYC and sometimes Boston. But I take your point lol
The odd thing to me is the Minneapolis or Chicago. In pure numbers, it should be Chicago every time, but Minneapolis seems to draw a strangely outsized amount of musical acts. I think it's because MSP is a big airline hub. Or something? I honestly don't know.
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Why the fuck would a global tour go to places that can't afford tickets?
18Yeah let me go to Ukraine real quick 💀
17I hear they have some killer pyrotechnics.
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As a resident of Ohio, that might as well be a grey spot too.
12I do alright. I live pretty much smack dab between Detroit, Cleveland, and Columbus so an artist is likely to hit at least one of those. The hour and a half drive before and after a show sucks, but even Chicago and Pittsburgh are close enough for a weekend trip for a show.
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The absence of Scandinavia checks out. Generous of them to leave Poland in, though.
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2Møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti.
12I’m guessing that the expected ticket sales don’t justify the additional expense of getting there, or if the tour schedule is busy, there are more profitable places to visit. Just the other week, a Stockholm concert for a US artist touring Europe was cancelled because of too low ticket sales, so I’m guessing margins are tight.
6Low population density, less potential customers
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"I'm going to the places where people can afford to see somebody who goes on a world tour."
11Hey now! Sweden is a hotspot for great metal concerts!
11it is these days you couldn't say that back in the 70s and '80s much from what I understand
1Please for the love of God tell me there is a genre called troll rock
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Unless you’re Horse the Band, which did their best to hit up every country on their world tour.
10Really? Well I managed to miss this one :'(
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Come to Brazil
9If it ain't a metal band, good luck with that
2Really makes me wonder why they don't come here more considering shows always sellout. Maybe it's the exchange rate
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I've seen World tours with stops only in the US and UK
8The map of asian groups "international" tours is also funny.
8Korea, Japan, and maaaayyyyyee Hawaii if they're adventurous
9How is it? Australia, Japan and Hong Kong?
3Example of Le Sserafims international tour
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Assuming that guy is American, he is roughly 13 foreign countries over the US average.
7The other parts aren't worth visiting
7I wonder how many Dream Theater fans there are in North Korea.
9Pretty sure getting caught singing Pull Me Under is seen as attempting to defect to the south and met with execution.
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(1st) World Tour!
6Fair enough tbh. Most counties are fucked up.
5I mean, do you expect them to go to every country in the world?
5How about the baseball world series?
5That would be around the world so it’s fine
5looks like only the important places
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4Here's a mindblower: OP didn't create this map. It's just a map of something unrelated entirely.
4If it goes around the world in terms of route then it counts.
4A lot of artists don't have the bandwidth to go to every single country. So they have to choose.
3Why is the bottom half of Chile colored?
3Compression.
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Maybe it's their first one?
3Cut out most of California, since they tend to figure if they go LA, it’s good enough
3Come on...
A lot of artists come to Switzerland and Slovenia...
2Portugal cyka blat
2Always the same map
1i 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
1No Brazil? Are they even a band?
0Hardly. Whenever they come, it's always a huge event
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Ah yes I remember 1942 when the Germans occupied Australia until 1945
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