Tour Grossing Figures and Attendances?

Then that's mighty impressive. They must have played a hell of a lot more shows than Jovi.

They played a total of 110 shows actually...

So they average about 67,000 people per show. That's pretty insane.

Where is all this talk of Bon Jovi having the top grossing tour of 2010 coming from?

And all of the shows were in stadiums so I guess that it's possible. Very impressive.

Here are the figures as reported by Billboard this week.

Rank, Place, Gross Revenue and attendance:

1) Bon Jovi, Dublin, $6,496,433, 68,144 (total for 2 shows)
2) Bon Jovi, Munich, $5,450,997, 68,025
3) U2, Minneapolis, $5,163,440, 59,843
4) U2, Pittsburgh, $5,050,730, 55,823
5) Bon Jovi, Helsinki, $4,365,736, 45,219
6) Kenny Chesney, Kansas City, $4,365,736, 52,523
7) Bon Jovi, Edinburgh, $4,227,618, 53,043
Bon Jovi, Manchester, $4,137,370, 42,737
9) Bon Jovi, Oslo, $3,971,782, 31,521
10) Bon Jovi, Horsens, $3,044,795, 30,803
11) Celine Dion, Las Vegas, $2,756,995, 16,632 (total for 4 shows)
12) Bon Jovi, Zagreb, $2,245,935, 33,698
13) Bon Jovi, Dresden, $2,123,287, 24,049
14) Bon Jovi, Bristol, $2,105,072, 20,459

Remember the U2 tour started in June 2009 and because of Bono's back and some other family issues they postponed a lot of 2010 dates. So, for 2010 Bon Jovi was the top tour.

Well they had. BJ grossed $196 million from 80 shows and U2 grossed $192 million from 32 shows in the calendar year 2010.

For what? 2011, summer 2011, since June? What do these stats cover?

Considering the shows just happened, I figured it would be a given those are the June 2011 shows for Jovi. For U2, Kenny and Celine the shows were in July. Billboard reports the data when it is reported to them from the promoter.

It's simply the shows that have been reported to Billboard this week. The ranking is pointless...