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Celeb News: The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013-14
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Beyonce’s Mrs. Carter Show Tops Hot Tours with $66.4 million Gross
Beyoncé tops the weekly Hot Tours ranking with $66.4 million in ticket sales from the Mrs. Carter Show world tour that kicked off in mid-April and wrapped for the year in December.
This week’s reported totals include most of the performances from the first leg of the tour that covered 15 European countries from the April 15 launch through the beginning of June. Some of the fall dates in South America and Australia are also included in this tally, along with the 15-city North American trek that wrapped right before Christmas.
The final performance before the tour’s winter break came in New York on Dec. 22, the last of two concerts booked at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Combining the totals from both shows (Dec. 19 and 22), the engagement drew almost 28,000 fans. Ticket sales topped $3.6 million from sellouts on both nights at the 15-month old arena.
Adding this week’s box office totals to those that were reported earlier in the year, the Mrs. Carter tour’s overall gross now totals $178 million from more than 1.5 million tickets at 103 performances. Included in those counts are headlining performances at BET Experience in Los Angeles and the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans last summer. After the current winter break, the Mrs. Carter Show tour is set to resume on Feb. 20 in Glasgow, the first night of its final leg. A 10-city swing through Europe will close at the end of March.
Prince places second on this week’s ranking of top-grossing tours with revenue reported from his three-night stand at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., during the week after Christmas. The Purple One performed for more than 20,000 fans during the year-end run (Dec. 27-29), topping $3.6 million in sold tickets. Fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Billy Joel also performed to an arena crowd to close out 2013, earning the No. 4 slot on Hot Tours with a $2.7 million gross. His sold out New Year’s Eve performance featured Ben Folds Five as show opener at Barclays Center with almost 17,000 in attendance.
Jerry Seinfeld and the Avett Brothers also land among the week’s top 10 with year-end performances. Seinfeld returned to Las Vegas to play a multiple-show run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace for the 27th time since the venue opened in 2003. His most recent engagement earns him this week’s No. 7 ranking with more than 6,200 fans on hand for concerts on Dec. 26 and 27. The Avett Brothers follow in the No. 8 slot with a New Year’s Eve concert at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. A packed house with 12,566 fans rang in 2014 with the native North Carolinians and opening act Shovels & Rope.
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Are we gonna have Asian Leg or I just keep dreaming?
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Are we gonna have Asian Leg or I just keep dreaming?
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I hope so She's never skipped them before and actually had pretty big Asian legs
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I still haven't seen her live yet. Hopefully she adds a US 3rd leg.
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March 26, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - SOLD OUT (phew)
March 27, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - seats sold out, only standing remaining
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March 26, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - SOLD OUT (phew)
March 27, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - seats sold out, only standing remaining
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Great!
Can't wait for the tour to start,at least that gives us something to look foward to.
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March 26, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - SOLD OUT (phew)
March 27, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - seats sold out, only standing remaining
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Originally posted by bey0nce
March 26, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - SOLD OUT (phew)
March 27, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - seats sold out, only standing remaining
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Beyoncé tops Dublin's O2 box-office
Sold-out Beyoncé and One Direction concerts were the top earners at Dublin's O2 Arena last year.
Beyoncé’s two shows generated €2.1m, an impressive figure when compared with her hubby, Jay Z, who brought in €564,960 in October.
While Beyoncé was the higest-earning by individual concert, the highest-earning series of gigs were staged by Michael Bublé, whose five sell-out July shows earned €3.9m at the box office.
Billy Joel’s single concert made €1.1million in November and 79-year-old Leonard Cohen generated €1.5m in his two concerts in the same month.
Fleetwood Mac’s two shows in September are next up, raking in €1.5m with One Direction's four shows in March making €1.4m.
The concerts helped generate a six per cent sales increase at the venue with Pollstar revealing that over 673,577 music fans walked through the doors of the O2.
However, despite this being an increase of 8.5% in attendance figures from 2012, the O2 dropped five places from fourth place to ninth on the list of biggest music venues in the world.
The O2 in London topped the international list with 2.12million people attending the arena last year.
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Beyoncé tops Dublin's O2 box-office
Sold-out Beyoncé and One Direction concerts were the top earners at Dublin's O2 Arena last year.
Beyoncé’s two shows generated €2.1m, an impressive figure when compared with her hubby, Jay Z, who brought in €564,960 in October.
While Beyoncé was the higest-earning by individual concert, the highest-earning series of gigs were staged by Michael Bublé, whose five sell-out July shows earned €3.9m at the box office.
Billy Joel’s single concert made €1.1million in November and 79-year-old Leonard Cohen generated €1.5m in his two concerts in the same month.
Fleetwood Mac’s two shows in September are next up, raking in €1.5m with One Direction's four shows in March making €1.4m.
The concerts helped generate a six per cent sales increase at the venue with Pollstar revealing that over 673,577 music fans walked through the doors of the O2.
However, despite this being an increase of 8.5% in attendance figures from 2012, the O2 dropped five places from fourth place to ninth on the list of biggest music venues in the world.
The O2 in London topped the international list with 2.12million people attending the arena last year.
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Highest grossing single concert of the year She will top the run of concerts list in 2014 then since she's doing 4 this time
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I need a 'Me, Myself and I/Jealous' medley.
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She should have announced the Asia dates before the album drops in Japan.
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March 27, 2014 - Lisbon, Portugal - MEO Arena - SOLD OUT
Both shows now, around 35,000 tickets have been sold
Europe 2014 update
Shows with tickets remaining:
All 4 Dublin shows - limited final tickets released
Both Antwerp shows - added final tickets
First Cologne show - added final tickets
Second Cologne show - still to sell out
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I ran to get tix for the Dublin dates & didn't get them. I ran faster when she added the new date & got them. I'll be seeing the hypocritical but excellent Mrs. Carter in March!
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If we get a 3rd N/A leg.I'm sure a second Australia leg will happen.
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Can I just remind everyone that this was the highest grossing tour for a solo artist of last year, male or female
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Can I just remind everyone that this was the highest grossing tour for a solo artist of last year, male or female
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4real?I've been gone so long
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I think she could pull in 35 million in Asia.45 million on a 3rd north American leg.33.75 on the second European leg.and about 17 million on a second Australia leg....that'd be like a total of 308 million!!
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