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Stats: The NA Moonshine Jungle Tour grosses more than 40M
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The NA Moonshine Jungle Tour grosses more than 40M
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Bruno Mars has not only proven to be a master at creating multiple hit songs, but he’s also solidified himself as one of today’s top live performers. In addition to being named the halftime performer at next year’s Super Bowl XLVIII, Mars recently wrapped his first sold-out headlining tour of North American arenas. The 42-date Moonshine Jungle Tour grossed $40.5 million and drew more than 565,000 fans, according to Billboard Boxscore.
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OMG the king is slaying.  
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In an extremely rare interview, John Marx, a partner in the music division at William Morris Endeavor (WME), tells Billboard.biz that booking the Moonshine Jungle Tour was one of the most exciting experiences in his 37-year career in the touring space.“I stopped giving interviews years ago, but I had to do this for Bruno, because he’s that special,” says Marx, who is also part of the WME teams that book such heavyweight touring acts as Lady Gaga, Usher, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow and Justin Timberlake. “This whole project has been exciting, unique and special.”
The North American leg of the Moonshine Jungle Tour began June 22 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., and finished Sept. 1 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot. Support acts on various dates included Ellie Goulding and Fitz & the Tantrums. The trek was in support of Mars’ second album, “Unorthodox Jukebox,” which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (subsequently reaching No. 1) and has thus far sold some 1.7 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Following a performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept. 21, Mars will travel to the United Kingdom and Europe for a two-month arena tour. Mars also has a handful of Australian/New Zealand concerts scheduled for early 2014, and will play another 40 dates in North America beginning next June, according to Marx In addition to Marx, Mars’ team at WME also includes Tony Goldring (international booking), Sara Newkirk Simon and Michele Bernstein. Mars is co-managed by the Creed Company’s Brandon Creed and Kevin Beisler.
Here, Marx gives Billboard.biz a fascinating inside look at the booking strategy behind Bruno Mars’ sold-out North American headlining tour, his thoughts on the artist’s Super Bowl announcement, why he was confident Mars could jump from theaters to arenas, the "wisdom" of presales, how Ellie Goulding was chosen as support and why Mars will be an arena-headlining act for years to come, and much more.
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The rest of the interview is down here.
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...source=twitter
Coming for his first 100M WW tour. 
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GO BRUNO! 
The modern day KING OF POP 
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Congrats
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$40.5M from 42 dates?
Wow, thats amazing, considering its his first arena tour + the USA is his weakest market. Can't wait for the European grosses!
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Have there been talks about when Mars will tour North
America again?
We have that already planned out. It will start in June and end
around mid-August (2014). I can’t reveal the cities and dates, but
we’ve got about another 40 dates.
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There has GOT to be some sort of new music supporting the N.american leg next year though.
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Congratz my king 
But that's what I'm thinking about. Please, I don't wanna wait till 2015 for new music from him because they add another leg for NA
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$40.5M from 42 dates?
Wow, thats amazing, considering its his first arena tour + the USA is his weakest market. Can't wait for the European grosses!
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There has GOT to be some sort of new music supporting the N.american leg next year though. |
Well he is doing the Super Bowl sooo  Third album by then?
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It was a very exciting moment for everybody on that call, because we had a situation in L.A. at Staples Center where the Jay Z/Justin Timberlake show (at the Rose Bowl on July 28) had just dropped on top of what was going to be our option day -- the second day at Staples. (Bruno Mars performed back-to-back concerts at Staples Center on July 27-28). [Jay Z/Justin Timberlake] had just gone on sale and sold out, I think the week prior to us going on sale with our first Staples date. AEG was concerned about that. I, on the other hand, was still bullish.
We went on sale and it was selling so quickly in virtual time that we decided to roll into the second show and put that on sale. As soon as we saw we had virtually cleaned out the first show in real time, we lit up the second show and that cleaned out. We left 20,000 people in the virtual waiting room that would’ve potentially bought other tickets. This could’ve easily gone, we believe, to three or maybe four days (at Staples Center). At the end of the day, we sold out 30,000 tickets and we were happy with that. We decided to close it at that.
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It's truly amazing everything Bruno accomplished in such a small time, I saw this on tumblr yesterday and it illustrates it really well:
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Oh please come, aww he was begging people to come & see him. 
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Oh please come, aww he was begging people to come & see him. |
I can picture him saying it
He deserves to be doing bigger shows now, he deserves everything 
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It's truly amazing everything Bruno accomplished in such a small time, I saw this on tumblr yesterday and it illustrates it really well:
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Wow  
King can do no wrong His hardcore fans must be so proud of him
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Well he is doing the Super Bowl sooo Third album by then? |
Hopefully!
And OMG at that tweet from 2010. ''Please come lol'' 
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Bruno is truly a force. Young king!
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King!!
another 40 dates in 2014?  coming for 120m total tour gross 
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GO BRUNO!
The modern day KING OF POP |
The modern gay KING OF POP lol
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The modern gay KING OF POP lol
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Originally posted by MaoMars
It's truly amazing everything Bruno accomplished in such a small time, I saw this on tumblr yesterday and it illustrates it really well:
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this is so cute 
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I'm so happy to see when a true talent gets a recognition!
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It's truly amazing everything Bruno accomplished in such a small time, I saw this on tumblr yesterday and it illustrates it really well:
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Awwww  
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Bruno deserves his successes. I can't wait til he becomes bigger after the SB.
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