From

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story...-awards_1180651

 

 

U2 Dominate Billboard Touring Awards

 

 

Rock acts including U2, METALLICA and AC DC were the toast of the Billboard Touring Awards in New York on Thursday (04Nov10), taking the night's top prizes.

 

The Irish band's 360 Degree trek was named Top Tour and Top Draw at the ceremony, while AC DC's show at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia in February (10) took the Top Boxscore honour.

 

Metallica landed the Eventful Fans' Choice, while Canadian rockers Rush were crowned Legend Of Live.

 

Pop acts were also honoured at the prize-giving, with Lady Gaga receiving the Breakthrough trophy, while the Poker Face hitmaker's Monster Ball tour scored an award for Concert Marketing & Promotion.

 

Britain's Download Festival was named Top Festival, while London's O2 Arena was picked out as Top Arena.

Not surprised it's been named 'top draw'. They must have done about 2,247 shows on this tour and it's only half way through.....

From

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-beat-goes-...e-road-for-2010

 

 

The Beat Goes On

 

 

Bon Jovi, U2, AC/DC and Lady Gaga lead top 2010 tours

By Melinda Newman

 

Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 11:14 PM

 

Bon Jovi tops this year’s list of biggest money makers on tour, grossing $146.5 million from their 69-show Circle outing.

 

It marks the second time in the past three years that the rock act has landed at No. 1, according to Billboard. The band got a bit of an unexpected boost from second place act U2, which had to cancel its North American summer tour due to Bono’s back injury. Otherwise, U2 may have topped the list.

 

In a year that touring hit major roadblocks--Lilith Fair or Christina Aguilera, anyone?--veteran acts continued to do well, and one particular newcomer also managed to crack into the upper reaches. Festivals, which provided tremendous bang for the buck, thrived in the tough economic climate. But overall, it was a brutal year. In North America (from the 11,555 shows reported to Billboard, touring grossed $2.1 billion, down 26% from last year. Attendance dropped 24.4% to 38 million.

 

Below are the Top 10 tours of 2010 (Billboard measures the year as November 2009-November 2010)

 

1. Bon Jovi, $146 million

2. U2, $131 million

3. AC/DC, $122 million

4. Lady Gaga, $116 million

5. Black Eyed Peas, $81 million

6. James Taylor & Carole King, $62 million

7. Eagles, $62 million

8. Metallica, $61 million

9. Dave Matthews Band, $61 million

10. Paul McCartney, $55 million

 

Tim McGraw came in at No. 13 for the top country artist tour, while Taylor Swift came in at No. 15.

Edited December 19, 201014 yr by Jupiter9

Surprised Wee Daniel never made the list :o

I'm going to investigate the Dave Matthews Band. They are always 'up there' every year and I've never heard a single song of theirs. They obviously perform 5,000 concerts a year solely in the US.

 

And more to the point, my new boyfriend Matt (you may have seen him on the X Factor) says they are his favourite band.

 

Off to investigate on You Tube. ^_^

:blink:

 

 

Oh.

I've never heard of them before :huh:

Your musical knowledge knows no bounds. :P

 

 

Anyway, can't say I'm overly impressed.

I see Mr Jovi was bragging about beating U2 and claim U2 should be 'paying attention' :lol: The only reason Bon Jovi beat U2 this year is because they did 69 shows compared to U2's 22 - so U2 almost grossed as much as Jovi with over three times less shows. 360 will become the biggest tour of all time with over between $700-800M - Jovi's tour will gross $300M in total it's predicted.

 

U2 prefer to take long breaks and do shorter legs but go on for years it appears :lol:

I know. Mr Jovi (much as I like the tiny man) does seem to have occasional delusions of grandeur :lol:

Imagine if Bono had not have injured his back and the US leg went ahead as planned - they would have been #1 by a country mile. :lol:

Behind Wee Daniel obviously..... -_-