There’s often a disconnect between artist and manager/agent when it comes to the level of success of a show or tour.
The artist is measuring connection, feelings, flow of the show, pats on the back, the amount of dancing and how many people they could see mouthing the words.
The manager and agent are measuring hard tickets, soft tickets, ticket splits, merch counts and the final dollar amounts at the end of the night.
It’s perfectly ok for each of these groups to be measuring different things (and they should be) but vital to recognize that different people on the same team are measuring different things and therefore at the end of the night may have completely different feelings about how the night went.
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