firstly, I wanted to say that on one of the Top 10 of everything books, green day is at #2 for most profitable tours of 2005 - (#1 being U2) - it said that GD raked in $140 million in 2005 alone, but U2 got $150 million.

also, green day's massive mudfight at woodstock 94 appeared in a book displaying greatest moments of 1990s.

can you give a link to the book?

I found this:
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2005/12/the_top_ten_tou.html

Awesome.

I have a big book, I think it's called the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums 2006, where it gives you an alphabetical list of all the artists to ever make it into the charts since the 1950's and their single and album discography. Anyway, they have a top 500 list of artists based on weeks they've been in the charts. Green Day is at number 196, or something like that. I thought that was pretty good, considering in 2005 they were number 400-and-something.
Wonder what number they're at this year.

Interesting! And considering U2 charged an arm and a leg for tix. Cheapest one here was $90 and Green Day was $33. What a bargain.

Tickets were expensive enough...

So we all agree that U2 should be disqualified, and therefore Green Day should take Number One

w00t.

my dad's a big U2 fan and he was quite disappointed for the tickets being well over $100 dollars.
that explains why they made so much money.

i still love you Paul, Larry, Adam, and Dave.

No.

Green Day tickets?
no I dont think they were at all

Shit. Homies be rollin' in dough.


Joey, Jakob, Stella, and Frankito will never have to work. Ever. They'll be set forever.

Hey that's awesome.

I'm glad that good bands topped the list. If Mariah Carey or some rap artists did instead, I would be pissed.

And as for the GD ticket prices, someone on this forum once said that it cost 45 dollars. I haven't seen the prices when they were touring, so I'm not sure.

It depends on which tour. The stadium leg of the AI tour cost more than the arena leg, but they still weren't too bad. I paid $40 (And that's including the tax and shipping and stuff from Ticketmaster) for the arena leg, and $55 (Also including tax and shipping from Ticketmaster) for the stadium leg of the tour.

Their tickets were really reasonable. Hell, they're fucking cheap compared to alot of artists. Especially for a band as big as they were during that tour. They could have charged an arm and a leg, and they'd still sell. They didn't, though.

They once said that they'd never let their ticket prices get ridiculous, and that they'd always be affordable, and they've stuck by that.

OMG..so great!
what about other musician?

Holy shit!!

That's a lot of money.

That is a shit load of money considering they charged nothing compared to artists that played in the same arenas (With even smaller stage setups i may add)

mostly cause of milton keynes (it was in 05 right?)

Ah, yeah, good point!

And yes it was =]

WHOO Go boys

so how much did any of them take do u think? how many dollars?

..I wonder how much of those money that ended up in the pockets of Reprise.

Awesome

they were only two shows, I dont think Milton Keynes brought in the majority of the money.

They won't ever have to work, but I doubt their parents would let them sit around doing nothing

I'd be surprised if they did.

^in addition to that I would be surprised if they wanted to sit around and do nothing.

good thing is they can do whatever they want. Wish I could!!!

Don't forget about Ramona too!

The guys seem too down to earth to let their kids sit around and be spoilt brats.

Green Day tour tickets were extremely reasonable compared to most bands!

Wow, that's a shitload of money.

Yeah, Green Day's prices are very low for a band of their calibre, you won't find another band of their size playing big venues that charges less. They're one of the biggest bands in the world, they could get away with charging extortionate prices, but that's not how they roll

The only reason the amount is so high is they played SO many shows to huge audiences. I'm betting U2 played way less shows than that, but just ripped their fans off instead to make up for it.

You heard what Billie said; they did so much touring that year. Even at the time, whenever new tour dates were announced I was thinking, "Don't they need to rest?!"

I remember with Dookie they lost a lot of money and they probably had to foot most of the bill when it came to the FHT tour as well. There aren't that many bands who will pay to tour like that, take a smaller cut and all. Plus with the theatrics and the whole entourage surrounding the AI tour, most of what they got would have gone toward expenses like that; the band themselves didn't end up with the entire $140 million.

That said, they're still definitely rolling in it! XD

i don't think a wife/husband of theirs would need to work either...

120 bucks for Green Day in 2005 in Aus cheap? dude Motley were charging 70-100 for all seats in 2005 in Aus which included Motorhead already a better a deal.

Also you all might like to look at 2006's list U2 got slaughtered, not just by the stones but Madonna doubled what they made and Bon Jovi kicked their asses aswell... http://blogs.usatoday.com/listenup/2006/12..._top_tours.html

^Interesting. Yep, The Stones and Madonna sure are major rip-off merchants.

I don't think that's expensive. Many of the concerts I've been to (by known bands) has been more expensive than that.

That's cool.

Thats great. My green day ticket was only 22 and I was in front row.

I think i paid around $40 for each of my tickets when i saw them that year. More than reasonable.

^considering the show they put on, I definately think we got our money's worth.

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Must've forgot to put that at the end of my last post.

The Rolling Stones a rip off? for the show they put on it's amazing. Alot of thbands from the pre-80's era charge more because they can get it and their managers and who ever else know people will pay that.

Doesn't mean they should.

My aunt went to a Barbara Streisand concert and it cost €380 for a ticket. And the front row seat were €1000. Thats ridicilous! Is she charging the same OTT prices every where else?

I've never been to a Green Day concert, but from what I've heard and seen on Bullet In A Bible, I'm positive that the 40 or so dollars would be more than worth it. So w00t for them

Definitely 100% worth it.

They could be like Paris Hilton. She goes around spending her parents money and parties. She doesn't just sit around

ahhh i hope we dont see a sex tape from any of them though haha.

Contrary to what others have said, the Milton Keynes bowl Tickets WERE expensive.

380 Euro!!!! That's waaaaay too much money

The fact is that U2, Rolling Stones and so on have older fans who have a greater disposable income than fans of bands like MCR and Green Day.

Green Day wouldn't have sold the tickets if they'd have matched the price of U2 and co.

wow that's really cool! they deserve it!

nice! and 130 million $ is a lot of money..
well..for me 1 million $ would be enough