Pollstar has released a list of the top grossing tours of 2013. Bon Jovi came out on top with $259.5M, selling 2.7M tickets. The Rolling Stones had the highest average ticket price at $288. Jay Z and Justin Timberlake had the highest average tickets sold per show at 52K.
1. Bon Jovi
2. Beyoncé
3. P!nk
4. Justin Bieber
5. Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
6. Rihanna
7. Cirque du Soleil – Michael Jackson: The Immortal
8. Taylor Swift
9. Depeche Mode
10. One Direction
11. Paul McCartney
12. The Rolling Stones
13. Muse
14. Fleetwood Mac
15. Kenny Chesney
16. Roger Waters
17. Bruno Mars
18. Jay Z & Justin Timberlake
19. Elton John
20. Cirque du Soleil – Corteo
Obviously something isn’t quite right here Billboard reported the top 25 Tours the other day and there list is different http://www.billboard.com/articles/list/5820092/top-25-tours-of-2013
LOL you want me to believe that Bieber came at No. 4???? Really???? He is No. 13 on Billboard.
FYI – Billboard cuts their tour numbers off in Sept. They run Sept. to Sept. Pollstar uses the calendar year. Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. Beibs toured thru to mid Dec.
The numbers will be different. ….yes. Really.
Half are from legacy acts.
The most amazing stat is that anyone paid $288.00 to see the Strolling Bones. Drunk Brits with bad teeth doing the chicken mating dance to out-of-tune guitars and no groove?
I’d rather spend an evening with a metronome.
You couldn’t pay me to see most of those “artists”.
Take the two Circque shows out — they’re family-type destination events — and that makes eight out of 18 legacy artists, most of which are close to or already past their sell-by dates. If the music industry is indeed mainly reliant on touring revenues/ticket sales, the bottom will have fallen out of that market within five years.