Music of the Spheres: England vs United States, where did Coldplay rock most?
On the 31st of May, 2023, Coldplay visited England for their “Music Of The Spheres World Tour.” The British band spent a total of 4 days in Manchester, performing live, the songs on “Music Of The Spheres,” their 9th studio album, which they released on the 15th of October, 2021.
Fast forward to September 2023, Coldplay took the “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” to the United States, with their first show being in Seattle. The band performed in Lumen Field, Seattle for a single day and then moved to San Diego, and Pasadena, where they performed for 2 days in each city.
Today, the “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” is a few months towards ending, and already, Coldplay has raked in so many awards that we believe will remain as constant reminders to the future world of entertainment that some great entertainers existed at a time in life.
Seeing that Europe and America have been the major hosts of Coldplay’s “Music Of The Spheres World Tour,” we’ve decided to walk through the greatness of the British band and compare some of their most visited places within these continents, in 2023. We’ll be covering major aspects that we believe are entertaining to Coldplayers, so be ready to have your mind blown.
Before we get down to business, we cannot ignore the fact that a lot of people have missed Coldplay concerts because the “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” tickets are hard to get. To keep this from happening, we have here an alternative ticket marketplace where you can get Coldplay Tickets.
Schedule
In this part of the article, we’ll compare the Country that had to host Coldplay the most in 2023.
England
Coldplay’s “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” concerts were scheduled to be held in England on the 31st of May, 2023. Yes, Coldplay visited England in 2022, when the tour began, but this comparison is restricted to their 2023 activities only.
Altogether in 2023, England had to host Coldplay and the “Music Of The Spheres World Tour” for 4 days. May 31st, 1st, 3rd, and 4th June, 2023.
United States
Coldplay then visited the US twice on 2 different occasions amidst their tour, which was on the 20th of September, and also on the 27th, which then marked their 2nd coming to the same country, lasting through the 28th, and 30th of the same month. The band left after their 5th show of the year in the US, which was on the 1st of October, 2023.
Verdict
This means that the US had to host Coldplay for 5 nights, compared to the 4 nights that Coldplay was in England back in May/June 2023.
Attendance
Attendance at Coldplay concerts has sparked the internet on many occasions. The British band has been breaking their attendance record in venues they have visited during previous tours. Let’s take a look at the record they set in the US and England.
England
Coldplay held their “Music of the Spheres World Tour” concert in the Etihad Stadium, located in Manchester, 2023. From the archives of the tour, more than 200k people made it to the concert for the 4 nights the band performed.
United States
Since Coldplay visited the US on 2 different occasions, we separated the first visit with the 2nd visit which has longer days compared to the first with just a single-day concert.
In Seattle, Coldplay performed in Lumen Field, where more than 60k people turned out for the concert. In San Diego, Coldplay performed at Snapdragon Stadium, where more than 65k people appeared in the concert for 2 nights.
Lastly, in Pasadena, Coldplay performed in the Rose Bowl, and more than 136k people made it to the concert for the 2 nights it lasted.
Summing all the recorded attendance together, it’s clear that Coldplay entertained more than 260k people amidst their “Music of the Spheres World Tour Concert” in 2023.
Verdict
Maybe it is because of the additional concert date that the US has, but the attendance in the US seemed to have surpassed the attendance in England for Coldplay’s 2023 leg of the “Music of the Spheres World Tour.”
Revenue Generated
In this part of the article, we’ll compare the reported revenue generated during Coldplay’s visits to England and the US for the “Music of the Spheres World Tour” 2023 leg.
England
$24,164.085 was reportedly cashed in by Coldplay when they visited Manchester, England in 2023. Usually, this figure is the number of tickets sold for the show. But, in the case of Coldplay, this also includes the profit made from the sales of tour merchandise.
United States
In the US, Coldplay cashed in $8,124,415 when they visited Seattle. Recall that the concert was for a single night, and the attendance was just slightly above 60k people. This means that every single soul present that night spent approximately $134 to be there.
But, this is just a rough estimate since we know from Ticketmaster’s confession that not all Coldplay tickets sold for the same price, especially in the US.
Additionally, Coldplay reportedly cashed in $10,355,147 from San Diego, where they performed for 2 nights in Snapdragon Stadium, which was filled with 64k people on both nights.
Progressively, the British band also cashed in $19,019,116 from Pasadena, where they performed to more than 136k people in the Rose Bowl.
Summing these figures together, it’s clear that Coldplay cashed in over $30 million from the 5 nights they entertained their fans in the US, in the 2023 leg of the “Music of the Spheres World Tour.”
Verdict
In this part of the comparison, we’d like to identify the contributing factor to why the US seems to be in the lead here, and that is, “Numbers.” But, that might not be the case entirely, since Amsterdam, which also hosted Coldplay for 4 nights, just like England, generated revenue of $30,322,573, which is close to the revenue of all the 3 different cities that Coldplay had to visit in the US, in 2023.
Nonetheless, Coldplay generated more revenue in the US than in England, in the 2023 leg of their 8th career tour.
Fan Rep
One thing about fan rep is that one cannot deny its existence. We decided to add this in the comparison to spice things up and remind people about the power of Google.
A quick search on Google revealed how much fans of Coldplay in individual cities hyped the concert, before and after it happened.
England
To get the result of how much hype Coldplay got from Coldplayers in England, before and after their concert, we inserted the keyword, “Music of the Spheres World Tour 2023 – England,” and we received 864,000 results within 0.51 seconds.
United States
We tried to get the same result from Google, to know how much hype Coldplay got from Coldplayers in the US, but this time, changing the keyword and replacing, “England,” with “United States,” and we got 699,000 results within 0.50 seconds.
Verdict
For those who don’t understand how this works, these results contain all the times people make a post with any of the used keywords. This can be on any platform like YouTube, Blogs and web pages, including TikTok as the case may be.
As you can see, the Coldplayers in England seem to be quite jolly about Coldplay since their query returned a bigger result than that of the US.
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