English heavy metal band Iron Maiden earns the No. 1 Hot Tours ranking this week with $19 million (US$) in box office revenue reported from its summer tour in European cities. The Maiden England World Tour originally kicked off last year with a North American summer trek but resumed in May of this year for a run through Europe that will be followed by tour legs in North and South America this fall. Ticket sales from 13 venues in seven countries were reported this week beginning with a sold out performance on May 29 at Lisbon’s Pavilhão Atlântico. Altogether from 14 concerts, attendance totaled 259,298. Included in that count is a sellout crowd of 55,531 at a football stadium, Friends Arena, in the Stockholm suburb of Solna, Sweden.
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Taylor Swift is second on the weekly list of Hot Tours with $18.2 million in ticket sales reported from three NFL stadiums on her Red Tour itinerary. First was a July 6 performance at the Pittsburgh Steelers home venue, Heinz Field with 56,047 in attendance. On July 13 the country star played to 52,399 fans at MetLife Stadium, home of both the New York Giants and New York Jets. This was her first headlining appearance at the metropolitan New Jersey/New York venue, but her second stadium show in Pittsburgh. She also played Heinz Field in 2011 on her Speak Now World Tour. The final venue included in this week’s tally, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, was included on the schedule for both tours. In 2011 Swift sold out a single show at the Philadelphia Eagles’ home stadium, but this year she played for two nights, July 19 and 20. A total of 101,277 tickets were sold for the two-show run.
Blake Shelton lands at No. 5 among this week’s 10 top-grossing tours with the first three dates reported from his Ten Times Crazier Tour that launched on July 19 in Virginia Beach. The tour is set to play U.S. arenas and amphitheaters through early October. Revenue from the first >three sold out shows – all at outdoor amphitheaters – totaled $1.9 million from more than 54,000 sold tickets. Last year, $9 million in ticket sales were reported to Billboard from Shelton’s Well Lit & Amplified Tour that played U.S. arenas during the first quarter of 2012. In 25 shows on that tour, the attendance was 188,000.
Weekly .com Boxscores – July 24, 2013
RankACT
Total Gross
Show Dates
Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts)
Total Attendance (Capacity)
1IRON MAIDEN
$19,007,265
May 29-July 13
Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon (1/1)
Palais Omnisports Bercy, Paris (1/1)
Festhalle, Frankfurt (2/1)
O2 World, Berlin (1/0)
O2 World, Hamburg (1/0)
Hallenstadion, Zürich (1/0)
Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam (1/0)
Open Air Arena, Singen, Germany (1/0)
Atlas Arena, Lódz, Poland (1/1)
Ergo Arena, Gdansk, Poland (1/1)
Open Air an der KöPi-Arena, Oberhausen, Germany (1/1)
Malmö Stadion, Malmö, Sweden (1/1)
Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden (1/1)
259,298 (263,638)
2TAYLOR SWIFT
$18,210,864
July 6-20
Heinz Field, Pittsburgh (1/1)
MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. (1/1)
Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia (2/2)
209,723 (209,723)
3JUSTIN BIEBER
$5,673,568
July 12-18
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (1/1)
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland (1/1)
First Niagara Center, Buffalo, N.Y. (1/1)
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia (1/1)
XL Center, Hartford (1/1)
71,344 (71,344)
4MICHAEL JACKSON THE IMMORTAL WORLD TOUR
$3,234,710
July 10-14
Olympic Park Gymnastics Arena, Seoul (7/0)
32,367 (66,080)
5BLAKE SHELTON
$1,902,151
July 19-21
Farm Bureau Live, Virginia Beach, Va. (1/1)
Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va. (1/1)
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, N.Y. (1/1)
54,342 (54,342)
6BOB DYLAN
$960,053
July 10
Midway Stadium, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1)
14,223 (14,223)
7BRUNO MARS
$881,513
July 14
Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1)
15,451 (15,451)
8LIFE IN COLOR
$671,281
July 12-13
Pepsi Center WTC, Mexico City (2/0)
12,770 (12,856)
9PEARL JAM
$635,515
July 16
Budweiser Gardens, London, Ontario (1/1)
9,687 (9,687)
10BRAD PAISLEY
$602,446
July 12
Darien Lake Perf. Arts Center, Darien Center, N.Y. (1/0)
16,690 (21,000)