Your way out mate.
Green Day are making more than £4-5m on one stadium show before merch. Obviously that isn't all profit for them as they need to pay transportation, production and crew costs which is going to cost a lot of money.
If you are using that old list of what band's charge that is well off.
Slipknot and Bring Me are much cheaper than Linkin Park, MCR and Green Day to book. The combined fee of Slipknot and Bring Me is going to be less than/similar than one of those three headliners. They could eat 2 and skimp on the undercard like 2018 or have a reduced undercard like 2023. 2023 actually had less acts than 2022 which had quite a few drop outs that weren't replaced and a 2024 which had drop outs a week before the fest, despite the extra day.
If they spend too much on headliners they have to make saving elsewhere on the line-up. They are given a budget by Live Nation to work to and the rest of the line-up would suffer or they would need to puck ticket prices up again.
I don't see them 3 costing that much. Green Day would be the most expensive one and they would probably charge their top so about $2.2m. Probably about £4-5m
When they hugely increased the amount of tickets they sold? Then last year we had QOTSA, FOB and A7X with a significantly cheaper lineup all round.
That was 8 years ago and things have only gotten worse since then.
Once again, not saying Download shouldn't be doing better but it's no secret that the UK is a very different situation to mainland Europe. UK festivals are folding at a hell of a rate.
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