The Guns N’ Roses reunion is one of the most talked about tours of the year. Granted, that may sometimes be for the wrong reasons, i.e. where are Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler and how long until the wheels fall off this cart?

Still, many fans are eager to go out and relive the band’s glory years. It’s the reunion everyone’s been dreaming about and waiting for even longer than the band’s repeatedly delayed album, Chinese Democracy.

So, the GNR reunion tour is finally underway, how are the numbers looking? Well, they’re actually a mixed bag. Some critics have noted that the band are struggling to sell out venues, but the promoters insist the tour is a huge success.

According to a statement given to Fortune by Live Nation, GNR’s current tour is “an unqualified success” and the Number 1 rock tour of the US summer. They also expect it to be one of the most successful reunion tours of all time.

Live Nation claim the tour is already on track to surpass 1 million tickets sold and become one of the top grossing tours of 2016. “At six shows into the tour, it has already grossed more than $100,000,000 in ticket sales,” they write.

However, as Fortune note, some fans on Twitter have spotted patchy attendances at gigs. The second night of a two-night run at Soldier Field in Chicago, for example, was not well attended, though the first night was a sellout.

A performance at Arrowhead Stadium in Kanas City saw an attendance of 27,000, a considerable crowd, but well below the stadium’s 70,000-plus capacity. However, Live Nation insist just over 35,000 tickets were put on sale as seating for a concert is different to that of a football game.

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Live Nation said they expect to sell more than 90 percent of tickets for the tour, with tickets averaging at US$130. They also claim that the less than expected attendances some fans may be noting are a result of the band’s own choices.

According to the promoter, the band are playing cities they want to play, rather than sticking to areas with high population density or areas where there is a known concentration of Guns N’ Roses fans, which most bands would do.

“The band wants to play certain cities,” Live Nation’s Bob Roux told the Wall Street Journal. “On virtually any tour we do, the larger cities generally outperform those with smaller populations.”

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