2,157,675 People Will Still Pay to See Bon Jovi
The results are in, and this year’s biggest was Bon Jovi’s Lost Highway tour of both North America and Europe – disproving the theory that you have to be from Hoboken to appreciate the band. Bon Jovi raked in $210.6 million, thanks to 2,157,675 fans in total attendance.
Following close behind with an intake this year of $204.5 million was Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s Magic tour. Including revenues from last year, Springsteen counts his total income for the period at $235 million.
The other top-grossers of the year are:
3. Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour (yet uncompleted), $162 million
4. The Police (currently finishing up the second leg of their reunion tour), $150 million
5. Celine Dion, $91 million
6. Kenny Chesney, $86 million
7. Neil Diamond, $81.2 million
8. Spice Girls, $70 million
9. Eagles, $56.6 million
10. Rascal Flatts, $55.8 million
The pattern is of already-established legacy acts with a peppering of New Country suppliers. (With the notable exception being that of the Spice Girls’ seventeen sellouts at the O2 Arena, which were in fact the highest paying gigs of early 2008.)
Bon Jovi’s achievements this year are a ray of hope for the ever-suffering music industry in the face of the downward turns of the economy, and Limewire, etc. Maybe there are still people willing to pay for music after all?!
Saw these guys in Croke Park, Ireland – bloody awesome!!!!
They sang a bit of Glory by Van Morrison to which was a nice touch…
I priced flights to that gig!!! haha! brilliant.
To dear…