in annual end of year lists
Why Do Some Tours Have Fewer Show Dates but Still Rank Higher?
This post is a part of a series digging into the stories revealed by the data of The Top 100 Tours of 2017.
Find the list here and an overview of the other stories here.
Q: How Do Some Tours Rank so High with Such Few Shows?
Making the Top 100 Tours list in any given year is amazing. Our intuition would have us believe that the more shows an act puts on, the higher they rank on the list. That is true to some extent, but some acts seem to rank unexpectedly high for how few shows they perform.
To understand how they do it, let's understand how the end of year rank is established. It's pretty simple actually, it's based on how much money the tour makes in a year. Annual revenue for the tour (known as 'gross') comes down to two numbers: how many tickets are sold and how much people paid per ticket.
