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For the third time in her career, Lana Del Rey performed in Mexico City on Tuesday (Aug. 15), where she offered an unforgettable show at the Foro Sol that gathered 65,000 attendees, according the promoter Ocesa. It was the first of two concerts in the Mexican capital as part of her international Did You Know […]
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Reigning CMA Awards entertainer of the year Luke Combs is gearing up for a double-header of a tour next year, when his Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour launches in April.
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The 25-show outing will visit 13 cities, with nearly every city getting two nights — Fridays and Saturdays — of shows.
The tour kicks off April 12-13 in Milwaukee, WI. Combs will also play two nights at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, Jacksonville’s Everbank Stadium and Phoenix’s State Farm Stadium, before wrapping with two shows in Houston at NRG Stadium on Aug. 9-10.
Since his breakthrough hit “Hurricane” spent two weeks at the pinnacle of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart back in 2017, Combs has become known for his wellspring of hits, becoming one of the biggest country music sensations of his generation. But with this tour, he continues doubling down on introducing fans to other musicians he loves, from contemporary country acts, to those that lean more into the Americana and Red Dirt genres.
The Friday night lineup of shows will feature Combs’ headlining set, in addition to guests Charles Wesley Godwin, Hailey Whitters, The Wilder Blue, Cody Jinks and The Avett Brothers. The Saturday night opening acts will include Jordan Davis, Colby Acuff, Drew Parker and Mitchell Tenpenny.
Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour. 13 cities. 25 shows. ⁰⁰Join/login to my fan club at https://t.co/RzSYEvromx to receive pre-sale info (info also emailed to members).Tickets will go on sale to the public next Friday, August 25 at 10 AM local venue time. pic.twitter.com/GEXiuJ2A2b— Luke Combs 🎤 (@lukecombs) August 15, 2023
“We got an opportunity to do two shows in some U.S. markets on the World Tour, but when I found out we were going to be able to do two shows for most all of the cities on the 2024 tour, I decided I wanted each show to have their own unique set up of openers, as well as my own unique setlist,” Combs said in a statement. “I thought this would give people an opportunity to come to both nights if they want, but see two completely different shows.”
He added, “With country music being such a wide genre and being a huge fan of it all myself, I wanted to open up my stage to acts that lean into Outlaw, Americana and Red Dirt on Friday nights, as well as having a night with people I have toured with in the past, who are more contemporary country,” he explained. “I’m super excited to have both groups be out on the road with me for the Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour!”
The tour takes its name from Combs’ recent pair of albums, 2022’s Growin’ Up, and its 2023 companion Gettin’ Old, and will follow his current 44-show World Tour, which visits three continents and 16 countries, and continues through the fall with concerts in Europe and Australia.
Combs recently helped country music make history on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, as his rendition of Tracy Chapman’s classic “Fast Car,” alongside Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” recently commanded the top three slots on the Hot 100, the first time in the chart’s history that three country songs had reached that milestone. “Fast Car” also spent five weeks atop the Country Airplay chart, and two weeks atop the Adult Pop Airplay chart.
Tickets for the Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour go on sale to the general public on Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. local time here, while Combs’ fanclub members will have access to a presale beginning Aug. 23 at 10 a.m. local time.
See the full list of dates below:
April 12 – Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Field
April 13 – Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Field
April 19 – Buffalo, NY @ Highmark Stadium
April 20 – Buffalo, NY @ Highmark Stadium
April 27 – University Park, PA @ Beaver Stadium
May 3 – Jacksonville, FL @ EverBank Stadium
May 4 – Jacksonville, FL @ EverBank Stadium
May 10 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome
May 11 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome
May 17 – Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s® Stadium
May 18 – Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s® Stadium
May 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
June 1 – Phoenix, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
June 7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rice-Eccles Stadium
June 8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rice-Eccles Stadium
June 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
June 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
July 19 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
July 20 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
July 26 – Washington, D.C. @ FedExField
July 27 – Washington, D.C. @ FedExField
August 2 – Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium
August 3 – Cincinnati, OH @ Paycor Stadium
August 9 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
August 10 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
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BLACKPINK isn’t done touring North American just yet. Rosé, Jisoo, Lisa and Jennie will hit the stage in Las Vegas on Friday (Aug. 18) for an “encore” performance of the Born Pink World Tour.
The group made history last week with sold-out, back-to-back concerts at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
BLACKPINK’s “encore” tour will include upcoming shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The extended tour has already made history with BLACKPINK joining Beyoncé and Taylor Swift as the only female acts to sell out back-to-back shows at MetLife.
BLACKPINK will bring the tour to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Aug. 18, San Francisco’s Oracle Park on Aug. 22 and L.A.’s Dodger Stadium on Aug. 26.
BLINKs can purchase resale tickets on Ticketmaster starting at approximately $121 and there are several tickets priced well below $200. Currently, the cheapest ticket prices that we’ve found start at $90 (for the Las Vegas concert) but most around closer to $117-$145 on Vivid Seats, StubHub and Seat Geek. The more expensive seats, located closer to the stage, are priced around $400-$1,200 depending on the date.
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BLACKPINK’s North American extended tour run will once again end in Los Angeles, but this time at Dodger Stadium. Last year, the group ended the North American tour with two, back-to-back shows at the Banc of California Stadium.
It’s been a great year for BLACKPINK as the group celebrates its seventh anniversary and other milestones like headlining Coachella in April. The Born Pink tour launched last October in Seoul, South Korea. The tour made stops in London, Paris, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Amsterdam and other cities around the glob.
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It’s no secret that Beyoncé‘s latest album, Renaissance, is a celebration of the Black queer culture that created house music as we know it today. A year after its release, transgender actress and activist Laverne Cox is ready to offer the megastar even more praise after a recent statement at one of her shows. In […]
Five-time Grammy winner Shania Twain is sending well wishes to fellow Canadian Celine Dion, who has been battling the rare neurological disorder Stiff-Person Syndrome, which also impacts Dion’s voice.
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“I’m such a fan of Celine’s voice,” Twain tells Billboard. “She’s a one-of-a-kind, extraordinary vocalist and entertainer.”
Twain adds, “I hope to be able to connect with her at some point. I think it’s gotta be so difficult, and I know — only speaking from my experience — how horrifying it is to think that something is preventing you from singing, or interfering with that joy in your life. So I just pray that she is able to overcome it and she will be up there [on stage] singing for us all again.”
In December 2022, the mighty-voiced Dion opened up to fans about her health battle against Stiff-Person Syndrome, which the “Power of Love” singer said has caused uncontrolled and severe muscle spasms, and has impacted her ability to sing. At that time, all of her spring 2023 concert dates were postponed until 2024, while eight of her summer 2023 shows were canceled.
“Unfortunately, these spasms affect every aspect of my daily life,” Dion said in her post sharing her battle. “Sometimes causing difficulties when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing the way I’m used to. I have to admit it’s been a struggle. All I know is singing — it’s what I’ve done all my life.”
In May, Dion canceled her remaining European tour dates on her European Courage Tour for 2023 and 2024.
Twain has also been open about her own voice-impacting health battle in recovering from Lyme disease. After she contracted the illness in 2003, it contributed to dysphonia, a disorder of the vocal cords. The “Giddy Up!” singer has had multiple surgeries to help correct the condition.
Twain has been triumphant, and is currently touring the globe on her headlining Queen of Me Tour, in support of her recently released Queen of Me album. In February, the set debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s top country albums chart, and at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. Twain has upcoming Queen of Me concerts in London, Dublin, Glasgow and more, before returning to the United States in October.
Twain also noted the history behind one of her concert mainstays, her 1998 hit “From This Moment On.” Though she ultimately recorded the song as a duet with fellow country artist Bryan White, as well as a solo rendition, she had initially hoped Dion would record the love-filled ballad.
“I wrote that with her in mind, and I really wanted her — my wish was that I would write it and she would record it. It would have been such an honor,” Twain says. “But my husband and producer at the time [Robert “Mutt” Lange] was like, ‘No, this really needs to be on your record.’ And I’m so grateful that I did record it.”
“From This Moment On,” from Twain’s Come On Over album, reached the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998. Come On Over went on to be certified 20x multiplatinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. On Aug. 25, Twain will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the project, by issuing the Come On Over 25th Anniversary Diamond Edition of the project.
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The first month of Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour situated her atop Billboard’s Top Tours chart in May. With reports for June, the entire European leg of the tour blew past the $150 million mark, making it the biggest non-U.S. leg of any Beyoncé tour. Now, with data for the trek’s first batch of North American shows, the bigger picture is coming more clearly into focus.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Beyoncé earned $141.4 million on the first 12 Renaissance shows in U.S. and Canada, selling 553,000 tickets. That puts the tour’s overall figures at $295.8 million and 1.6 million tickets, current through her Aug. 1 concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
Approaching the $300 million mark, the Renaissance World Tour is now Beyoncé’s highest grossing tour yet, passing 2016’s The Formation World Tour ($256.1 million) and 2018’s On the Run II Tour alongside Jay-Z ($253.5 million).
In exceeding the gross of her own two previous tours, the Renaissance World Tour resets the record for the highest grossing tour by an R&B artist, or any Black artist in Boxscore history. Beyoncé previously held the title with the Formation World Tour and before that, with The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in 2013-14 ($211.9 million).
Beyoncé hasn’t yet eclipsed those runs in terms of tickets sold, though it’s only a matter of time. The Formation World Tour still holds strong with 2.2 million tickets, 600,000 ahead of her 2023 stint. With 23 shows left to report in North America, expect Queen Bey to add close to 1 million more for a total of 2.6 million.
Though it has the earnings record in the bag, the Renaissance World Tour still has room to grow. Its $295.8 million is already in the region of Billboard’s initial projections of $275 million to $300 million plus, based on expected per-show revenues of $6.8 million to $7.5 million. With extra shows added due to high demand, the tour’s routing shot to more than 50 shows, with the low end of our projection ballooning to $380 million.
But Beyoncé hasn’t been earning $7 million per show. The 12 reported North American dates paced $11.8 million and 46,100 tickets each night. Grosses have swung as high as $33.1 million over two shows in East Rutherford, N.J., and as low as $6.5 million in Louisville, Ky.
If the 23 remaining shows can maintain that average or simply stay above the eight-figure mark, the Renaissance World Tour will set a whole new standard for Beyoncé.
To reach $500 million, the Renaissance World Tour will have to gross $8.9 million per show. But that’d represent a 24% drop from the first batch of U.S. & Canada dates, and there’s no reason to expect such a decline considering the remaining dates include highly anticipated shows in Atlanta, Los Angeles and Beyoncé’s hometown of Houston.
At $10 million per show, Beyoncé will hit $525 million, which would inch her past Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour ($523.3 million). That’d be enough to make the Renaissance World Tour one of Billboard Boxscore’s 10 highest grossing tours ever.
Here’s a graph to show you where the Renaissance World Tour could end up, depending on how the 23 remaining shows perform.
At the current breakneck speed of $11.8 million per show, Beyoncé would be looking at $560 million. On the all-time leaderboard, she’s targeting classic rock heavyweights such as Guns N’ Roses, The Rolling Stones and Roger Waters as peers on the stadium stage.
Even before she gets there, Beyoncé has already broken through some hallowed territory in the Boxscore archives. Across her career as a soloist (including her co-headline tours with Jay-Z, and with Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott), Beyoncé has become the 15th artist – and third woman after Celine Dion and Madonna – to gross more than $1 billion. Further, she’s just the second female act (after Madonna) to sell more than 10 million tickets. Over 408 reported shows, she has earned $1.063 billion and sold 10.473 million tickets. By the Oct. 1 close of the Renaissance World Tour, that gross will be about $250 million higher.
Harry Styles kicked off Love On Tour in September 2021, emerging as one of the first arena headliners of the immediate post-pandemic era. Two years and five continents later, the trek played the last of its 169 shows on July 22 in Reggio Emilia, Italy, closing as one of the highest grossing and best-selling tours of all time.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Love On Tour grossed $617.3 million and sold more than 5 million tickets. Among all tours in Boxscore’s 30-plus-year history, the world tour is the fourth-highest grossing and eighth-most attended trek ever. Only Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour ($939.1 million), Ed Sheeran’s The Divide Tour ($776.4 million) and U2’s 360 Tour ($736.4 million) have earned more.
The tour began on Sept. 4, 2021, with 42 shows in the U.S. Those dates had already been postponed twice due to COVID-19, supporting Styles’ second solo studio set Fine Line, already two years old by opening night. It was one of the biggest tours of the season, at No. 3 on the abridged 2021 year-end Top Tours ranking, with repeat appearances at No. 2 on the monthly chart.
Still, by the time Styles returned in support of 2022’s Harry’s House, the chart-topping album and its enduring lead single “As It Was” helped him further ascend into a new domain of superstardom. Styles held steady in North American arenas, but went from one or two shows per market to extended mini residencies in five cities. Venue capacity and attendance were essentially unchanged, but the destination-event factor made demand soar.
Average ticket prices leapt from $131.69 in 2021 to $204.78 in 2022, culminating in a $157.3 million gross over 44 shows. The 15-date run at New York’s Madison Square Garden grossed $63.1 million alone, making it the highest grossing report ever. The 15 dates at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., earned $47.8 million, coming in fifth place on the all-time leaderboard.
Harry’s House caused a similar bump in Europe, leveling from arenas in 2022 to stadiums in 2023. The first European leg earned $56 million and sold 639,000 tickets. Already among the top-earning acts in Europe over that summer, Styles’ grosses tripled just a year later, with $199.3 million over 31 shows from May 13-July 22.
Love On Tour also included 14 shows in Latin America, seven in Oceania and six in Asia. Styles had last hit these international markets in 2018 as part of Harry Styles: Live in Concert, essentially skipping the Fine Line portion of the tour due to delayed openings after the pandemic. The difference was most dramatic in Australia, where his per-show attendance quintupled from 10,407 to 53,295 and his average gross multiplied by seven, from $971,000 to $6.8 million.
Over the five years that separated Styles’ two solo outings, he amassed a trio of No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, won multiple Grammy Awards (including album of the year for Harry’s House), and graduated from a reliable arena headliner to an artist who sells out blockbuster stadium shows. His first tour earned $63.7 million, almost one tenth of Love On Tour’s final figures. Not only is Love On Tour easily Styles’ highest grossing solo tour yet, it eclipses the entire career gross One Direction, the pop group in which he shot to stardom, which earned $583.4 million over four tours from 2012 to 2015.
Altogether, Styles has grossed $681 million and sold 5.8 million tickets.
After strong sales of the 65 dates of his Luis Miguel Tour 2023, which will play until the end of the year, Latin superstar Luis Miguel will extend his trek through 2024, Billboard can exclusively reveal.
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The Mexican singer will play 50 additional dates next year, making stops in Central and South America, the United States, Canada and Europe.
Luis Miguel Tour 2024 will officially kick off in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on Jan. 20, 2024, and will go to Central and South America before circling back to the U.S., April 4 in Seattle, WA. He’ll then play 32 dates, ending June 16 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The shows will be produced by CMN and Fenix, who are also producing the current leg of the tour.
Miguel’s 2023 tour officially kicked off Aug. 3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the singer performing over 50 songs from his vast catalog, including timeless hits such as “La incondicional,” “Ahora te puedes marchar,” and “Hasta que me olvides.”
The highly-anticipated tour is Miguel’s first outing since his 2018-2019 México por Siempre tour, which grossed $101.4 million and sold 965,000 tickets across 116 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. It was the highest grossing Latin tour in Boxscore history until last year when Bad Bunny‘s El Último Tour del Mundo and World’s Hottest Tour surpassed it.
The México por Siempre tour coincided with the first season of Luis Miguel: The Series, based on Miguel’s life and premiering in April 2018. The second and third seasons of the series streamed on Netflix in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, heightening interest in Miguel and his catalog, despite the fact that he hasn’t released a studio album since 2017’s ¡Mexico Por Siempre!
Luis Miguel Tour 2024 tickets go on presale Thursday, Aug. 10 at 10 am ET, and all tickets will go on sale Aug. 11 for the U.S.
Ticket sales in other countries will be announced individually.
All dates for Luis Miguel Tour 2024 are below:
Jan. 20 — Santo Domingo, Rep. DominicanaJan. 23 — San Juan, Puerto RicoJan. 27 — Ciudad de Guatemala, GuatemalaJan. 30 — San Salvador, El SalvadorFeb. 2 — Tegucigalpa, HondurasFeb. 5 — Managua, NicaraguaFeb. 8 — San José, Costa RicaFeb. 12 — Caracas, VenezuelaFeb. 15 — Medellín, ColombiaFeb. 17 — Bogotá, ColombiaFeb. 21 — Quito, EcuadorFeb. 24 — Lima, PerúMarch 2 — Santiago, ChileMarch 8 — Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMarch 14 — Córdoba, ArgentinaMarch 16 — Montevideo, UruguayMarch 20 — Asunción, ParaguayMarch 23 — Sao Paolo, BrasilMarch 28 — Santa Cruz, BoliviaApril 4 — Seattle, WAApril 5 — Portland, ORApril 7 — Sacramento, CAApril 11 — San Francisco, CAApril 13 — Fresno, CAApril 14 — San Jose, CAApril 17 — Los Angeles, CAApril 19 — Las Vegas, NVApril 20 — Glendale, AZApril 25 — Palm Desert, CAApril 26 — Ontario, CAApril 28 — Salt Lake City, UTMay 2 — El Paso, TXMay 4 — Laredo, TXMay 5 — Austin, TXMay 8 — Dallas, TXMay 10 — Hidalgo, TXMay 11 — San Antonio, TXMay 15 — Houston, TXMay 18 — Atlanta, GAMay 23 — Toronto, CanadáMay 24 — Montreal, CanadáMay 26 — Minneapolis, MNMay 30 — Chicago, ILJune 1 — Brooklyn, NYJune 2 — Uncasville, CTJune 5 — Orlando, FLJune 6 — Sunrise, FLJune 8 — Miami, FLJune 12 — New OrleansJune 14 — Nashville, TNJune 16 — Greensboro, NC
