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Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour was the big winner at the sixth annual Billboard Touring Awards, taking home honors for Top Tour and Top Draw, which acknowledge the highest-grossing and highest-attended tours of the year, respectively. Madonna's manager Guy Oseary won the Top Manager award.
The Billboard Touring Awards are based on worldwide data reported to Billboard Boxscore for the period Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009. Other winners include Kenny Chesney's Sun City Carnival tour for Chesney's sixth straight Top Package award; Ill Divo for the Breakthrough award, U2 for the Top Boxscore award for the band's shows at Croke Park in Dublin last July, and Dane Cook for the Top Comedy Tour award.
Additionally, Keith Urban received the Concert Marketing & Promotion Award for his Escape Together tour sponsored by Kingsford and KC Masterpiece, and Jonas Brothers received the Eventful Fans' Choice Award, both determined by online voting. Warped tour founder Kevin Lyman received the Humanitarian Award, and Ozzy Osbourne was named Legend Of Live.
The complete list of winners at the Billboard Touring Awards are as follows:
Top Tour
Madonna, Sticky & Sweet
Top Draw
Madonna
Top Package
Kenny Chesney's Sun City Carnival tour with Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland and Montgomery Gentry
Breakthrough
Il Divo
Top Comedy Tour
Dane Cook
Top Boxscore
U2 at Croke Park in Dublin
Top Festival
Oxegen, Naas, Ireland
Top Arena
O2 Arena, London
Top Venue (under 10,000 seats)
Radio City Music Hall, New York
Top Venue (Under 5,000 seats)
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Top Club
9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
Top Amphitheatre
Comcast Center, Mansfield, Mass.
Top Promoter
Live Nation
Top Independent Promoter (U.S.)
Jam Productions, Chicago
Top Independent Promoter (International)
Time For Fun, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Top Manager
Guy Oseary (Madonna)
Concert Marketing & Promotion Award
Keith Urban tour with KC Masterpiece & Kingsford
Top Agency
Creative Artists Agency
Humanitarian Award
Kevin Lyman
Eventful Fans' Choice Award
Jonas Brothers
Legend Of Live
Ozzy Osbourne
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