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Thread started 04/14/07 11:04pm

scriptgirl

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What countries is Prince the most popular in outside of the US

Before Housequake went and lost their mind, I saw a report done in Australia about how his concert was a great success and I realized I never really thought about P being wildly popular outside the US, hence this thread
"Lack of home training crosses all boundaries."
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Reply #1 posted 04/15/07 2:27am

wlcm2thdwn

Omigod, Japan, Spain,all of Europe, Mexico, Africa Prince is popular around the world.
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Reply #2 posted 04/15/07 2:28am

Flowerz

Amsterdam - isnt that where he did the SOTT movie?
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Reply #3 posted 04/15/07 3:05am

Sander

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Flowerz said:

Amsterdam - isnt that where he did the SOTT movie?
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Almost, it's in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

To get an answer to this, I suggest prince.org set up a poll on the front page: where are you from?
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Reply #4 posted 04/15/07 3:47am

Christopher

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wild guess..... the u.k.? smile
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Reply #5 posted 04/15/07 6:56am

Tonylover

I'm Australian.
The last time P came here was in 2003 and if i recall correctly his first concert in Melbourne sold out within minutes. I guess that suggests he is pretty popular down under. Everyone i meet knows who he is, doesn't mean they like him however...
There loss!
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Reply #6 posted 04/15/07 1:22pm

Tremolina

wlcm2thdwn said:

Omigod, Japan, Spain,all of Europe, Mexico, Africa Prince is popular around the world.

Japan, western Europe, Canada definitly, but
Africa? "Al of" Europe?
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Reply #7 posted 04/15/07 2:15pm

MikeMatronik

Prince is very popular in these countries:

The Netherlands
The United Kingdom
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Reply #8 posted 04/15/07 2:28pm

blackbob

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i would say holland...his concerts sell out faster there than any other country..he was popular in the uk up until the mid nineties but hasnt really been in the spotlight since then much...the odd tv appearance....he hasnt had a hit song here in the uk since betha by golly wow and the holy river made the top 20 ten years ago....his last two albums have done ok here though selling around 100,000 copies each....
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Reply #9 posted 04/15/07 3:36pm

brocklynn

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Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin
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Reply #10 posted 04/15/07 3:38pm

VenusBlingBlin
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brocklynn said:

Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin


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Reply #11 posted 04/15/07 3:57pm

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VenusBlingBling said:

brocklynn said:

Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin


falloff

lol
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Reply #12 posted 04/15/07 10:24pm

theodore

wlcm2thdwn said:

Omigod, Japan, Spain,all of Europe, Mexico, Africa Prince is popular around the world.


He's not very popular in México hmph!
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Reply #13 posted 04/15/07 10:24pm

theodore

brocklynn said:

Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin



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Reply #14 posted 04/15/07 10:47pm

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From what I heard, his popularity in the UK was never really huge
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Reply #15 posted 04/16/07 1:15am

thekidsgirl

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brocklynn said:

Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin


Cutest reply EVER! lol
If you will, so will I
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Reply #16 posted 04/16/07 1:22am

BoySimon

Prince isn't that popular in the Uk anymore. Times were that any Prince release would instantly hit the No.1 spot in the charts (album - especially since Purple Rain) and his singles would go top 20. Not any more. Can't remember the last No.1 album... the last top ten single was Gold, I think.

He may still have an underground Uk fanbase, but his hold over the music buying public the United States of Kingdom has definitely waned.
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Reply #17 posted 04/16/07 1:52am

ian

bboy87 said:

From what I heard, his popularity in the UK was never really huge


You heard wrong! There was a time when Prince was big business in the UK. Ireland too.

My guess for most popular would be the Netherlands. I think Dutch fans beat all others when it comes to sheer crazy Prince fan dedication, in proportion to the population!
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Reply #18 posted 04/16/07 3:15am

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Prince was very big in the UK and was a big concert seller. I reckon he'd still sell loads of concert tickets in the UK.
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Reply #19 posted 04/16/07 3:28am

BoySimon

I don't think he would sell that many tickets in the UK now. The last show was at the Hammersmith Apollo, only a couple of thousand seats. If he went 'on tour' in the UK he would struggle to play more than one date at any of the larger venues around the country. Since the heyday of the Nude Tour, when he did something silly like 18 nights in a row at Wembley, he's always had problems putting bums on seats in the UK.
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Reply #20 posted 04/16/07 10:21am

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thekidsgirl said:

brocklynn said:

Antartica, I just saw some penguins dancing to his music biggrin


Cutest reply EVER! lol

Thanks biggrin
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Reply #21 posted 04/16/07 10:42am

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BoySimon said:

I don't think he would sell that many tickets in the UK now. The last show was at the Hammersmith Apollo, only a couple of thousand seats. If he went 'on tour' in the UK he would struggle to play more than one date at any of the larger venues around the country. Since the heyday of the Nude Tour, when he did something silly like 18 nights in a row at Wembley, he's always had problems putting bums on seats in the UK.



bollocks...prince would sell out 10000 seater arenas in the uk no problem....if he plays the hits and gets a bit of promotion ,maybe a single out before the album for a change...do you realise it has been a good 12 years since prince released a single before the album????...sounds basic stuff for pushing a record but he hasnt done it for years..
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Reply #22 posted 04/16/07 10:47am

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Sander said:

Flowerz said:

Amsterdam - isnt that where he did the SOTT movie?
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Almost, it's in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

To get an answer to this, I suggest prince.org set up a poll on the front page: where are you from?



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What forum would that be best placed? (The management here have enough to do. That would require collecting the data, categorizing it, etc. It can be time consuming.)
I've pretty much wrapped up the average age survey.
I would think here, as GD folks tend to not be as interested in Prince.
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Reply #23 posted 04/16/07 11:16am

Obsidian

biggrin He has a lot of fans/people in Western Canada that just adore him, but the poor folks out this way hardly hear anything about him.....there is very little promotion...and only his older "hits" get radio play. I think if he played a venue in Vancouver BC the people out there would be thrilled!
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Reply #24 posted 04/16/07 7:37pm

audience1

Japan…based on the success of musicology and black sweat singles. Tokyo definitely seems to likes him. Song of the Heart has been on the Tokyo 100 singles chart for the past two months. It peaked at #18.

http://www.j-wave.co.jp/o...kiohot100/
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Reply #25 posted 04/16/07 8:20pm

BoySimon

Since Nude the larger arena concerts I have been to were not sold out. In fact, for one I traded a crappy seat at the back for a crappy seat in the front row on the side. The Gold Experience tour saw parts of arenas get curtained off for lack of sales. If he came and played once in Wembley, once in Sheffield, once in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and, possibly, Cardiff, he might get the majority of his tickets sold for each gig. But, as I said before, the notion of Prince filling Wembley Arena for a five or six night run is something consigned to history... in my opinion. I would dearly love to be proved wrong, I just don't think it's going to happen.
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Reply #26 posted 04/16/07 9:16pm

thedribbler

He's not so pop here in Chile.
The kids don't know who he is.

Society here is pretty homophobic, and prince just ruffles 2 many feathers.
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Reply #27 posted 04/16/07 10:21pm

theodore

thedribbler said:

He's not so pop here in Chile.
The kids don't know who he is.

Society here is pretty homophobic, and prince just ruffles 2 many feathers.



U're from Chile? cool
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Reply #28 posted 04/17/07 1:33am

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BoySimon said:

I don't think he would sell that many tickets in the UK now. The last show was at the Hammersmith Apollo, only a couple of thousand seats. If he went 'on tour' in the UK he would struggle to play more than one date at any of the larger venues around the country. Since the heyday of the Nude Tour, when he did something silly like 18 nights in a row at Wembley, he's always had problems putting bums on seats in the UK.


I think you are unders estimating how many casual and hardcore fans there are in the UK.

Crowd wise, three shows at the Apollo equals on night at Wembley Arena, and Prince sold those three shows out in an instant, at £65 a ticket.

If he were to play the arenas at a sensible price, with a bit of promotion, he would fill an tour of the major cities easy.
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Reply #29 posted 04/17/07 1:56am

dag

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I am not sure where he is the most popular, but he sure is not popular over here, which is a shame. I´ve even met ppl about my age (in their 20´s), who had no idea who he was.
"When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all."
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