I had just mentioned yesterday how I'd hoped to get some more official attendance figures for Rush's 2011 tour, and it looks like somebody must have heard me! Yesterday Billboard released sales and attendance figures for another 16 shows from the 2011 Time Machine Tour - which means we now have the figures for 22 of the 38 shows. Rush also made Billboard's Hot Tours list this week coming in at #2:
... With $12 million in box office grosses reported from 16 performances on the Time Machine Tour, veteran Canadian band Rush lands in the No. 2 position on this week's rankings. The totals reported during the past week are from North American dates in April and June as well as three concerts from European markets during May. The top gross among the North American shows came from the Los Angeles market with $1,289,447 in ticket sales from two concerts at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City (June 20 & 22). The highest-grossing European venue was London's O2 Arena with £756,910 in ticket sales from a May 25th performance. Top numbers from the band's home country came from the Bell Centre in Montreal, grossing just over $1 million (US$) from a packed house on April 20. ...
Now onto the specifics. Just as I'd suspected, we had several more sellouts in this latest report; Cleveland, Detroit, Montreal, Baltimore, New Orleans, Austin and El Paso join Sunrise, Hershey and New York as sellouts. That makes a total of 10 sellouts out of the 22 shows reporting attendance figures so far. Very impressive! For some reason Billboard likes to lump the figures for 2 consecutive shows in the same city/venue rather than report them independently, so for the 2 LA shows I simply split the numbers down the middle. The capacity figures reported do not correspond to the actual physical capacity of the venue; it reflects the number of tickets that were made available for sale. Gross sales are expressed in US dollars. The most-attended show so far was the April 15th show at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland which sold out all 14,970 seats. And the New York MSG show remains the highest grossing with $1,276,798 in ticket sales. I've already added the figures to the tour section and will try to add them to each individual show's open thread as I have the time. Here are the numbers for the 16 shows reported yesterday:
Tue, Apr, 12: United Center - Chicago, IL
Attendance / Capacity: 11670 / 12178
Gross Ticket Sales: $1,009,885Wed, Apr, 13: Huntington Center - Toledo, OH
Attendance / Capacity: 5736 / 5969
Gross Ticket Sales: $370,004Fri, Apr, 15: Quicken Loans Arena - Cleveland, OH
Attendance / Capacity: 14970 / 14970 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $958,727Sun, Apr, 17: Palace of Auburn Hills - Auburn Hills, MI
Attendance / Capacity: 9987 / 9987 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $826,549Wed, Apr, 20: Bell Centre - Montreal, QC
Attendance / Capacity: 11590 / 11590 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $1,008,250Fri, Apr, 22: 1st Mariner Arena - Baltimore, MD
Attendance / Capacity: 11006 / 11006 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $821,493Thu, May, 12: The O2 - Dublin,
Attendance / Capacity: 6278 / 7000
Gross Ticket Sales: $602,861Thu, May, 19: Manchester MEN Arena - Manchester,
Attendance / Capacity: 9115 / 10285
Gross Ticket Sales: $861,850Wed, May, 25: The O2 - London,
Attendance / Capacity: 12984 / 13517
Gross Ticket Sales: $1,221,530Fri, Jun, 10: New Orleans Arena - New Orleans, LA
Attendance / Capacity: 9804 / 9804 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $671,618Sun, Jun, 12: Frank Erwin Center - Austin, TX
Attendance / Capacity: 10525 / 10525 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $693,912Tue, Jun, 14: Don Haskins Center - El Paso, TX
Attendance / Capacity: 6338 / 6338 SOLD OUT
Gross Ticket Sales: $428,500Thu, Jun, 16: US Airways Center - Phoenix, AZ
Attendance / Capacity: 10777 / 12472
Gross Ticket Sales: $713,851Sat, Jun, 18: Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre - San Diego, CA
Attendance / Capacity: 9912 / 11183
Gross Ticket Sales: $606,918Mon, Jun, 20: Gibson Amphitheatre - Los Angeles, CA
Attendance / Capacity: 5697 / 5801
Gross Ticket Sales: $644,724Wed, Jun, 22: Gibson Amphitheatre - Los Angeles, CA
Attendance / Capacity: 5697 / 5801
Gross Ticket Sales: $644,724
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