Michael Jackson’s Cirque Tour Tops Pollstar Mid year Chart, Lady gaga, drake Make the list..

July 14, 2012 | Filed under: Music | Posted by:

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this of 2012 wasn’t a band or an artist with a mega-selling album. Instead it’s Cirque du Soleil – “Michael Jackson: The Immortal,” which played 95 shows in 46 cities and sold 703,793 tickets for a total gross of $78.5 million.

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    Wrigley Field, Chicago, Ill.
    June 8, 2012

    (Andy Argyrakis / ConcertLivewire.com)

     

Other acts among the top five on Pollstar’s Top 100 N.A. Tours are Roger Waterswith the former Pink Floydian selling 575,444 tickets for a final gross of$61.9 million; Van Halen’s 448,506 tickets sold resulting in a final gross of $44.9 million;Kenny Chesney selling 386,969 tickets and grossing $33.9 million; and Lady Antebellum’s 708,715 tickets sold giving the group a $30.9 million gross for Jan.-June.

Crunching the numbers, the intrepid mathematical geniuses in Pollstar’s Boxoffice Department determined that the Top 100 Tours in North America generated a combined gross of $1,125.9 million, up 1.2 percent over last year.

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