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11 December 2008
Bon Jovi Scores 2008's Top-Grossing Tour

Bon Jovi's Lost Highway tour tops the list of the biggest tours for 2008, based on data reported to Billboard Boxscore from Nov. 14, 2007, through Nov. 11, 2008. The trek, promoted in North America and Europe by AEG Live, grossed $210.6 million and drew 2,157,675 fans.

In second place is Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Magic tour, which grossed $204.5 million for the period. Springsteen reported another $31 million for last year, taking his two-year Boxscore total to more than $235 million.

Rounding out the top 10 are Madonna ($162 million for the still-underway Sticky & Sweet tour), the Police ($150 million on the second leg of their reunion tour), Celine Dion ($91 million), Kenny Chesney ($86 million), Neil Diamond ($81.2 million), Spice Girls ($70 million), Eagles ($56.6 million) and Rascal Flatts ($55.8 million).

The Spice Girls' 17 sellouts at the O2 Arena last December-January were the highest-grossing engagement of the year, taking in $33.8 million and drawing 256,647. Other top Boxscores for the year were Celine Dion at the Bell Centre in Montreal ($23.1 million), Madonna at Stade de France in Paris ($17.6 million), Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn. (about $17 million), and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. ($14.2 million).

For the overall touring industry, grosses reported to Billboard Boxscore totaled slightly less than $4 billion worldwide, the most ever for a year and up almost 13% over last year.

But global reported concert attendance is virtually flat, with 6% fewer shows. And North American concert attendance is down nearly 2%, after a nearly 20% decrease last year, continuing a troubling trend. Better news is evident on a show-by-show basis; the average box office gross in North America is up 18% and average attendance is up 6.3%, reflecting that some of the attendance decline can be attributed to a decrease in the overall show count.

Source: Billboard
 
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blue_eyed_belle said:
I love Bon Jovi, granted, but I expected The Police and The Eagles to come higher than they did!
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The Police tour started early last year, so if both last and this year is totaled, it's higher. The Eagles have been touring the past few years, so considering that their total is pretty good.
 
guess it all depends on who charges the most. thats pretty much what it comes down to.
 
elusive moonwalker said:
guess it all depends on who charges the most. thats pretty much what it comes down to.
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A lot of a tour's money comes from merchandising (at least for a rock or pop act), not the ticket sales per se. Although, I don't imagine Barbra Striesand selling a lot of T-shirts lol. People have been paying scalpers lots of money for tickets for decades, this is one of the reasons veteran acts charge big money now to try to cut down on this. Also the production of a show is more extravagant today (and expensive to put on) than in the past which was mostly a band performing on a small stage. No pyro, giant props, dancers, etc.
 
Well, alot of theses t-shirts bacome available for cheaper outside the venues (from Touts) :)

Which is why I never purchase any Merchandise inside the venue. Heaven knows how these Touts manage to get them and flog 'em off for a cut price :unsure:
 
its cause they are fake. anyone can print off cheap t.shirts. heck they make a living out of it after they spend the hours b4 the show selling tickets. then watch them unload their cars of tops half an hour b4 the show is over lol
 
elusive moonwalker said:
guess it all depends on who charges the most. thats pretty much what it comes down to.
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diana ross and the supremes recent tour charged an arm and a leg and the tour fell to pieces and went to the crapper. people actually have to want to see the show lol.
 
Didnt realise he rejoined the band briefly...thought there was a lot of bad blood between him and the band...thats pretty cool!
 
JoeyMJFan said:
diana ross and the supremes recent tour charged an arm and a leg and the tour fell to pieces and went to the crapper. people actually have to want to see the show lol.
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of course but it still comes down to the price. doesnt matter if u perform a tour to millions it aint gonna be a top grossing if u are only charging £10 a ticket. thats why i said its pretty much down to who charges the most because its not as if most artists nowadays are doing huge attending tours yet every other month (it seems) you get annoucements that so and so has done the big grossing tour ever yet the tour was nothing special interms of the amount that attended it.so it comes down to the prices that are being charged
 
Yeah, Bon Jovi drew 2,157,675 fans, yet HIStory was attended by roughly 4.5million wasn't it? Attendance is down so much since 1997. HIStory wasn't even the biggest tour back then.
 
I think HIStory was the biggest of that time.

It certainly surpassed Dangerous Tour when it comes to income & attendance :)
 
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