Singing at a Concert
Every musical artist goes on tour to promote their albums and be able to feel the accomplishment of selling out an entire arena. Back in the 60's the Beatles went on tours to promote record sales. They would price the tickets really low so that they were guaranteed to be sold out and it was a way to reward fans for being loyal and buying their music. The term for this is consumer surplus fans would be willing to pay such a high price for tickets, but they keep them at a low cost. An average Beatles ticket for a concert in Chicago back in 1966 was $5.75 and in today's dollars that would be around $37.60, which is ten times less then what you would pay for any major act today. (One Directions are around $263) Touring in the 21st century is a lot different then it was back then. There are still millions of screaming fans, but technology has changed the way people participate in a concert. It used to be that concert goers would listen to the music and now they still do, but they have their cameras and phones to film and take pictures to document every moment. It is not the same experience it used to be. For instance One Direction filmed one of their concerts and made it in to a popular selling DVD and they have another 3D concert movie coming out in August 2013. Beatles concerts were filmed too, but it wasn't all about the money, back then it was more about the music.
Concert DVD
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