Hot Tours: Roger Waters, Taylor Swift, Bob Seger

Rock legend Roger Waters returns to the top of the Hot Tours rankings with box office grosses reported from June dates of The Wall Live Tour as it continued its trek through Europe. Zürich's Hallenstadion hosted the tour for two shows on June 6-7 and then two more on June 24-25 grossing just over 8 million Swiss francs ($9.6 million US$) for all four sellouts. Combined attendance was just under 40,000 for the run. Waters made two-show appearances in three German cities, Mannheim (June 3-4), Hamburg (June 10-11) and Berlin (June 15-16) as well as single show performances in Herning, Denmark (June 14), Munich (June 21), Budapest (June 23) and Düsseldorf where the tour played its sole stadium date among the June performances. The 54,000-seat soccer stadium drew 33,299 fans for a concert on June 19. Arena dates in two U.K. markets, Birmingham (June 27) and Manchester (June 28) and a final show in Paris (June 30) closed out the month.

Taylor Swift holds the No. 2 spot on Hot Tours based on ticket sales topping $15.7 million from five U.S. markets on the North American leg of her Speak Now World Tour. Among the venues represented in this week's totals are two more NFL stadiums on the country music star's summer itinerary. A June 18 performance at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, drew a crowd of 52,009 with sales just over $4 million. Then the following weekend she returned to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. for the second year in a row, grossing $8 million, her highest reported gross total on record. Combined attendance for both sold out performances on June 25-26 was more than 110,000. Her appearance at the stadium last year during the Fearless Tour grossed $3.7 million from a sellout on June 5, 2010.

Veteran rocker Bob Seger scores a third place ranking with totals reported from his spring tour through North America that wrapped at the end of May. His Hot Tours placement is based on totals from eight markets including Detroit where the tour played three nights at the Palace of Auburn Hills, grossing $3.3 million from sold out performances (May 17, 19, 21). The tour, which kicked off in late March, grossed more than $21 million from 26 concerts, with attendance nearing the 300,000 mark.