There is always a reason the most of us will never know or understand. But I have always trusted maiden that its good reason.
True but the future past tour was planned so well and tour dates was announced way ahead.
I checked Wikipedia
Man, those ones are pop/dance acts not even hard rock.
Completely different audiences in terms of scale and popularity. We can compare IM attendances with those of other hard rock/metal acts, but not with pop megastars like Coldplay or Ed Sheeran. It's obvious.
Maiden and Metallica are definitely neck and neck in ticket sales, Maiden sold more tickets than Metallica last year alone. SOAD will always sell out in seconds since they rarely play shows
Totally not true
I didn’t mean in general but lately I feel like Maiden has been selling more tickets because more shows, same size venues around and the tour.
Maybe not quite, but Maiden has closed the ticket sale gap with Metallica really well, I guess in most places except USA. Some markets Maiden may be neck and neck or even better.
OK, but Iron Maiden are playing more concerts (generally), and you must realize Metallica doubled the shows with 80% the same people in the audience both nights! This could be called a monopolization strategy in the concert markets (money-grabbing anyway). The final results are fewer shows, more big venues, and more people, just because of their strategy to sell two shows at the same stadium(s) to the same people and even give them "free CDs".
