Made In America attendance figures
The attendance figures are in for the Budweiser Made In America festival, which took place over the weekend on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Made In America attendance figures
Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Music Critic
The attendance figures are in for the Budweiser Made In America festival, which took place over the weekend on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
On Saturday, when Jay-Z was headlining, the fest drew 41,336, acording to Live Nation, who promoted the show. On Sunday, with Pearl Jam on top of the bill, 39,146 people showed up.
That makes for a total of 80,482. The fest was mainly in the business of selling two days passes, but single day tickets were available. For two days, that puts it at 80.48% of capacity, a number that local Live Nation head Geoff Gordon says was expected in the first year of the fest, which he says lost money this year. No word yet on the million dollar question of what Made In America cost the city.
One other statistic, put in context: In two days, there was one arrest at Made In America, the hip-hop headlined festival everyone was afraid of. By contrast, 191 people were arrested at the Miranda Lambert headlined WXTU-FM country concert at the 25,000 capacity Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden in June.
Watch Run DMC at MIA below.
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but i thought the young hip hop youth couldn't behave itself while the country folks represented real american values...— slanted and enchanted- Wasn't WXTU a free show? Wasn't the 4th of July concert on the Parkway in which shots were fired a free show as well?
— Dicky Dunn - I'm sure most of the Lambert arrests were in the parking lot they way Camden police keep those lots on patrol. There was no tailgate to speak of for MIA. Also, while it was a diverse crowd, it was still mostly white.— gilligan
- Not sure what's so baffling here. As if an extra 4 hours of drinking in the parking lot won't increase the number of arrests? And I was at MIA and it was mostly white. Just stating 2 facts here and u toss in your 2 cents? Camden police are always on the move within the parking lots locking people up. When's the last time you've even been to Camden for a show, suburbanite?
— gilligan - But I thought the MIA was going to be a murder, fight, flash mob-a-rama. That is all you heard on this website(when the Facebook, plugin was not used for comments). When the event was awesome with no problems, not a peep from all the doom sayers. The tailgate for the MIA was the neighborhood bars that were full of people eating lunch before they went in, and afterward after the concert...and still no problems...just lots of money made for the local pubs. — mikenphilly
- So a $6 million gate? The Eagles do that every Sunday and the Phillies do that on a weekend series. The City spends very little on those two events AND gets a nice cut of the parking.
My guess is this is a financial fiasco for the City. OT for City workers alone is probably 7 figures.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt - Guess the $billon dollars for the stadiums the city spent up front does not count in your book. Plus the Eagles, Phillies and Springstein give you one thing to watch. I had access to 28 bands in this festival. — mikenphilly
- There was less violence because people had to pay a lot of money so they were emotionally and financially invested. Let this be a lesson to every event and to every liberal idea out there including healthcare and every other program that's labeled as "free". Give people a financial incentive and they are more likely to own their actions.— AvoidSundanceVacations
- why does nobody listen to you?
i've avoided sundance vacations and have been the happiest man in the world!
— the lopez! - The City spends very little on the Eagles and Phillies? Besides the $1b stadiums you mean?— sla6yer
- City spends plenty of money for Phillies and Eagles. Police man the barricades to keep outsiders from parking in the precious South Philly neighborhoods. Traffic control all around the stadium. Police command bus is staffed with O.T. personnel. — bravehearted
- 70 plus thousand to see the Boss at the Bank total. More contained and way better.— Servo
- miranda lambert brings the goons out— franknbeans
- Did I hear there was a sighting of Milton Street selling "button" on the Parkway??? An unadvertised perk!!— dogman5
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