Indeed, acts that started in the '70s and '80s are doing brisk business everywhere, with Def Leppard enjoying its best ticket counts in years (12,000-plus in amphitheaters with several small-arena sellouts), and Rush grossing more than $1 million per show. But not everything is perfect, as Madonna, an even more enduring '80s icon, can attest. Her Rebel Heart Tour doesn't begin until Sept. 9, but rumors that its sales are off pace persist.
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After pulling in more than $107 million from 1.2 million attendees in markets outside the United States and Canada, the heat has cooled a bit on 1D in the tough-to-sustain teen-pop world, particularly on this second consecutive stadium jaunt. One insider tells Billboard that ticket counts in U.S. stadiums aren't regularly topping 30,000, "and you don't go into a baseball stadium doing 30,000."
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Then there's Taylor Swift. "I'm putting tickets on sale on Mars for Taylor, because buildings on Earth are not big enough," quips Louis Messina, president of TMG/AEG.
