Originally posted by deanallison:Despite the criticism or perhaps just concern sometimes from people, myself included, u2 have proved they are still one of the top 10 probably 5 live acts in the world. Not ‘the’ biggest anymore but not many can beat them over a world tour, Ed Sheeran is up there, Taylor swift was getting good numbers, the Rolling Stones are up there, Coldplay have cracked it too, but you’d struggle to find many more consistently getting close to U2’s attendance numbers and on a show per show basis maybe only the Rolling Stones can beat them in terms of money brought in.
Stones did 1 (!) stadium show in AUS in 2014, and a couple of Arena shows. To top that they did 1 stadium show in Auckland.
U2 does 6 stadiums shows in AUS, and 2 stadium shows in NZ. Stones played to a "whopping" total of 176K people during their whole leg of Oceania. Even if some U2 shows wouldn't "technically" sell out, they'd still easily double the stones numbers..