Note · Country
Thirteenth, which is still a lot of people
Chris Stapleton's average night on the late-August list was about $3.4 million, in rooms of roughly 26,000.
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Steve Kwak, Maryland GovPics, August 11, 2019. CC BY 2.0.
Thirteenth does not sound like a story until you read the column next to it. About $3,423,427 a city. About 25,796 people. Tickets around $133. On a list whose first name is Karol G, that is still a large room, quietly, all summer.
He is not the country story of the year. Ella Langley has the song. Morgan Wallen has the album. Stapleton has the kind of tour that does not need either to keep selling.
The picture is Merriweather Post Pavilion, August 11, 2019. Older than this routing. It is the face and the hat, and we can print it.
This one is not on the shelf.