Pollstar numbers
GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT: Pollstar reports that Taylor Swift had the year’s top-earning tour with $112.7 million, surpassing longtime live champ Jon Bon Jovi’s $1.07.3m and becoming the most profitable Country artist’s trek ever. Swift shows also accounted for 21 of the year’s Top 200 grosses. Kenny Chesney earned the #3 spot with $91m. Among the year’s other top tours were jaunts by Beyoncé ($76m), Jay Z and Justin Timberlake ($69m), Fleetwood Mac ($67m), P!nk ($63m), The Eagles ($60m), Justin Bieber ($56m) and Jason Aldean ($51m). One Direction, Luke Bryan, Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan and Bruno Mars landed in the Top 20 tours for the first time and are expected to sell even more tix this year. The industry organ notes that the concert biz reached a new peak of $5.1 billion in 2013, with the Top 100 tours adding up to $2.79 billion, a 10.3% spike over 2012. Lower average ticket pricing—offered in the midst of a still-recovering economy--gets much of the credit, by Pollstar’s reckoning. (1/13a)
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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A CHORUS OF PRAISE: IVORS 2024 NOMS
