based - even as a kid i thought damn mj has an awesome guitarist

I attended the HIStory tour in Sweden, let me know if you have any memorbillia you could sell me :) /from gbg

She "Is"

Yea

She is still alive

I kinda wanna press x to doubt here-

Don't forget about Greg Philiganes on keyboard. He was like the maestro

Not necessarily that much, because the tour is not necessarily a business in itself, but a part of the whole business of the artist. It might be, that the tour can be considered kind of as a marketing expense in the whole business of the artist. Tour does create revenue, but when talking about such a massive artist as MJ was, it probably wasn't important whether the tour broke even, the investment in the tour would return in some other form. Most of the money anyway is not in touring, back in the day it was in the album sales, not sure how now in the digital era, but even more so in other business deals, such music or the artist persona used in other popular culture products, like commercials, movies, products, and of course the music being played on the radio or on tv. All that is made possible partially by making the artist desirable to the public by for example bringing the artist to your city to perform, in other words by touring. :) For smaller bands and artists the economical side of the tour can be much more important, MJ at the time was an artist that probably had to say no to a lot of business proposals and was still able to make a very good profit as basically a global phenomena.

The profit in the 80s for tours was in the merch + album sales. For a global icon like MJ, 500k a week is like us putting gas in our car, a deductible expense that will generate more profit in ways of music sales and radio spins...Which more than made up for an negative losses...

@@sarppaleffat The tour was absolutely making over 500,000 a week. Didn't you hear Jennifer? They were regularly playing in front of 50,000 people plus. Let's say the Michael Jackson tickets were: $100 dollars (which I am sure they were or maybe more) if they played a 50,000 sold out show, that is 5 million dollars for one night. They were doing that three nights a week. They were no doubt grossing several millions dollars a week.

@@Michael-jw6et No the tickets were $20 - $30. MJ kept tickets affordable so everyone could attend. Victory your was considered expensive at $35

@@timopeterfeef1843 i Prefer 18 to 22. You can have the old Ladies

@@primesuspect8198 That bald spot on your egghead though. :')

@@timopeterfeef1843 you are very old

@@timopeterfeef1843 you are 62 years of Age. I can Tell ya

@@primesuspect8198 Whatever makes you happy kiddo lover.