Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Tour Earned $232 Million in Ticket Sales
The final box office totals are in for Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience world tour.
The final box office counts are in for Justin Timberlake‘s 20/20 Experience world tour that wrapped with a two-show engagement at the MGM Grand Garden arena in Las Vegas to kick off the new year. Overall ticket sales from the tour totaled $231.7 million at the end of the 14-month trek that was attended by 1.9 million fans at 128 performances. Sales from the final six venues on the tour were just reported, earning the pop star the No. 1 ranking in the weekly Hot Tours tally (see list, below).
The tour’s reach was worldwide with performances set in five continents during the run that began on Nov. 6, 2013 in New York City.
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Concerts were staged in 54 venues in the U.S. and Canada during three legs. In Europe, the tour stopped in 16 countries during treks in April and May of 2014, as well as June and August. Shows in two Middle Eastern cities, Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, were included in the mix along with a six-city jaunt through Australia and New Zealand. Timberlake also made a handful of festival appearances during the summer, performing on the main stage at festivals in Portugal, Morocco and the U.K.
The final two-show stint in Las Vegas on Jan. 1 and 2 marked his fourth appearance at the MGM Grand Garden during the tour. He played a total of six concerts at the arena beginning with a two-night stand at the end of November 2013 during the first North American leg. He returned twice in 2014, performing for a packed house on Aug. 8 and again on Nov. 28. The two-show finale at the beginning of 2015 capped his stint at the MGM Grand Garden, the most-played venue during the tour.
He also performed six shows in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but in three different venues. Staples Center, the Forum in Inglewood and Anaheim’s Honda Center each hosted the tour for two nights. Fans in the metropolitan New York/New Jersey market had five opportunities to see the pop star. He performed twice at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and also at Madison Square Garden, along with one show at the Izod Center at East Rutherford, N.J. Five cities hosted the tour for three performances: London, Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto and Auckland, New Zealand.
With the 20/20 Experience tour, Timberlake ended 2014 as the highest-grossing solo touring artist of the year, yet he ranked No. 2 on Billboard‘s list of the top 25 tours. One Direction nabbed the No. 1 slot in the year-end rankings with $290 million in ticket sales from the boy band’s massive Where We Are stadium tour.
| HOT TOURS – Jan. 14, 2015 | |
| Ranked by Gross. Compiled from Boxscores reported Jan. 7-13 | |
| Rank | ACT |
| Total Gross | |
| Show Date Range | |
| Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts) | |
| Total Attendance (Capacity) | |
| 1 | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE |
| $11,911,192 | |
| Dec. 13-Jan. 2 | |
| Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn. (1/1) | |
| Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1/1) | |
| Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia (1/1) | |
| Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (1/1) | |
| Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Ga. (1/1) | |
| MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas (2/2) | |
| 86,507 (86,507) | |
| 2 | CAFÉ TACVBA |
| $3,228,055 | |
| Nov. 11-Dec. 13 | |
| Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City (7/0) | |
| Domo de la Feria, Léon, Mexico (1/0) | |
| Palacio del Arte, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico (1/0) | |
| Auditorio del Complejo Cultural, Puebla, Mexico (1/0) | |
| Auditorio Banamex, Monterrey, Mexico (1/0) | |
| 81,899 (85,233) | |
| 3 | DAVID GARRETT |
| $1,840,104 | |
| Nov. 18-22 | |
| Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City (2/0) | |
| Auditorio Telmex, Guadalajara, Mexico (1/0) | |
| Auditorio Banamex, Monterrey, Mexico (1/0) | |
| 30,492 (31,946) | |
| 4 | BILLY JOEL |
| $1,739,342 | |
| Dec. 31 | |
| Amway Center, Orlando (1/1) | |
| 15,752 (15,752) | |
| 5 | ERIC CHURCH |
| $1,662,748 | |
| Jan. 8-10 | |
| Smoothie King Center, New Orleans (1/0) | |
| BancorpSouth Center, Tupelo, Miss. (1/1) | |
| Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (1/1) | |
| 38,139 (40,833) | |
| 6 | TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA |
| $1,438,783 | |
| Dec. 14-Jan. 3 | |
| Amway Center, Orlando (2/0) | |
| Santander Arena, Reading, Pa. (2/2) | |
| 27,657 (33,148) | |
| 7 | ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ |
| $1,030,480 | |
| Dec. 11-13 | |
| Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City (3/0) | |
| 18,460 (28,755) | |
| 8 | UDO JÜRGENS |
| $855,739 | |
| Nov. 29 | |
| O2 World, Hamburg (1/0) | |
| 11,650 (12,132) | |
| 9 | GABRIEL IGLESIAS |
| $838,221 | |
| Dec. 27-28 | |
| NOKIA Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles (2/2) | |
| 13,764 (13,764) | |
| 10 | TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA |
| $813,675 | |
| Dec. 30-31 | |
| The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas (2/2) | |
| 4,200 (4,200) | |
