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How Charli XCX’s Tour Blasted Off, Thanks to brat Summer · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: If you pay attention to pop music, you already know
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Speaker 2: that Charlie XCX's career took off over the summer thanks
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Speaker 2: to her album Bratt becoming the surprise smash of the season,
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Speaker 2: to the point is spawning an entire movement and catchphrase,
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Speaker 2: Brat's Summer. And you can really see the evolution of
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Speaker 2: her star meter through the progression of US ticket sales
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Speaker 2: for her joint tour with Troy savannas the summer season.
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Speaker 2: War On Billboard reports that when the tour was announced
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Speaker 2: in April, only major markets like La New York and
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Speaker 2: San Francisco sold out, and the rest of the tour
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Speaker 2: lag behind. After week one, venues average only sixty seven
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Speaker 2: percent tickets sold, But as Bratt exploded, so did demand
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Speaker 2: for tickets. By the end of May, the average was
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Speaker 2: eighty percent, mid June ninety percent. By opening night, ninety
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Speaker 2: seven percent of all tickets were gone, and soon after
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Speaker 2: it was one hundred percent sold out. That's almost unprecedented
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Speaker 2: for two artists without a ton of radio hits. By
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Speaker 2: the way, both careers are progressing, adding those to their
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Speaker 2: accomplishments might only be a matter of
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Speaker 1: Time that's direct from Hollywood,