How's your Edinburgh show going? The stats.

Here’s one for #Edfringe nerds. I just researched total tickets sold at the Fringe every year, against the number of shows there were, to see how many tickets each show sells on average. Has it gone up or down?

Here comes the answer…

2007 1,697,293 tickets sold, 2050 shows = 827 per show average
2008 1,535,519 sold (referred to as ’disastrous’ cos of box office crash) 2088 shows = 735 per show
2009 1,850,000 sold, 2098 shows = 881 per show
2010 1,950,000 sold, 2453 shows = 794 per show
2012 (the Olympic year)1,857,202 sold, 2695 shows = 689 per show
2013 1,940,000 sold, 2871 shows = 675 per show
2014 2,183,591, 3193 shows = 683 per show
2015 2,298,090, 3314 shows = 693 per show
2016 2,475,143, 3269 shows = 757 per show
2017 2,696,884, 3398 shows = 793 per show
2018 2,838,839, 3548 shows = 800 per show

Conclusion: Ten years ago, each show sold an average of 880 tickets across the month. This slumped 2012-15 to below 700 per show. Since 2016 it has crept up to 800 per show.

So, now you know how bad your show’s doing. Glad to be of service.

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