Showing posts with label pollstar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollstar. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Pollstar's Top 20 Club Venues

House of Blues BostonIf you ever wondered what the best clubs to play were, Pollstar has that info for you. Here are the top 20 clubs in the world according to attendance in 2015.

1. 302,211- House Of Blues, Boston Boston, MA

2. 287,085 - Webster Hall, New York, NY

3. 286,530 - Terminal 5, New York, NY

4. 258,323 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC

5. 215,169 - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BELGIUM

6. 190,317 - The Wilbur, Boston, MA

7. 187,330 - The Pageant, St. Louis, MO

8. 183,335 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN

9. 162,080 - Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY

10. 141,363 - Metropolis, Montreal, CANADA

11. 139,473 - Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ

12. 137,293 - Arvest Bank Theatre At The Midland, Kansas City, MO

13. 136,830 - Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO

14. 136,662 - The Paramount, Huntington, NY

15. 135,850 - Roseland Theater, Portland, OR

16. 133,553 - The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel / Casino, Las Vegas, NV

17. 130,641 - Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, OK

18. 130,262 - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR

19. 126,477 - Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, Austin, TX

20. 121,140 - Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Take notice that there are only 2 clubs in the top 20 that are outside the US, and that New York has the most clubs in the area with 5.

It's also interesting that the top clubs are fairly well spread out around the country, with venues in Missouri, Minnesota and Oklahoma being represented.


Monday, January 11, 2016

The 20 Top Grossing Tours Of 2015

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One of the cool things about the music business in 2016 is that it looks like analytics have finally caught up to the business to the point where it doesn't take months to get the big picture. It used to be February or March before we would see yearly sales figures, but now we're seeing them within the first couple of weeks in January.

A good example of this is Pollstar's annual top grossing tours. Here are the 20 tours that made the most money in 2015.

1. $250.4 - Taylor Swift

2. $210.2 - One Direction

3. $180.0 - AC/DC

4. $152.2 - U2

5. $127.0 - Foo Fighters

6. $125.1 - Fleetwood Mac

7. $117.3 - Ed Sheeran

8. $116.4 - Kenny Chesney

9. $114.9 - Garth Brooks

10. $109.7 - The Rolling Stones

11. $88.4 - Madonna

12. $82.2 - Kevin Hart

13. $77.7 - Paul McCartney

14. $77.6 - Elton John

15. $76.8 - Violetta

16. $72.0 - Maroon 5

17. $71.8 Luke Bryan

18. $69.9 - Billy Joel

19. $69.0 - Shania Twain

20. $68.0 - Neil Diamond

A couple of quick notes.

  • A bad sign for the business is that over half of the top money-making tours were from legacy artists.
  • Comedian Kevin Hart probably personally made more than everyone but Ed Sheeran, as his overhead costs were particularly low.