TOP FESTIVALS TOURING Spectacular outdoor settings and all-star lineups drove ticket sales for the finalists among this year’s top multiday concerts

The crowd at the 2017 Everytown Coachella for Gun festival. Safety held its fifth annual Brooklyn Bridge March for Gun Sense on June 3. Everytown’s Mission To Make Music Safe

After the Oct. 1 mass shooting at the Billboard will present Everytown with its Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, gun- Humanitarian Award, while honoring the family violence-prevention advocacy organization of a victim killed at the Pulse nightclub shooting Everytown for Gun Safety redoubled its in Orlando, Fla., in 2016. Everytown research efforts with the music community to protect director Sarah Tofte will lead a concert-safety concertgoers. A couple of weeks later, it discussion with panelists including Warped COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & unveiled a video featuring such artists as Crow Tour founder Kevin Lyman. ARTS FESTIVAL , Jack Antonoff, Moby and TV on Founded in 2014, Everytown has amassed Empire Polo Club, Indio, Calif., April 14-16, 21-23 the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe for a campaign to drive over 4 million members, approaching the National 1 million calls to Congress to reject legislation that Rifle Association’s 5 million, and has worked to make Coachella boosted its capacity from would roll back gun-silencer safety laws. concerts safer primarily through political advocacy, 99,000 to 125,000 for each of its Now, says Crow, who works with the nonprofit group, collecting signatures to change a gun-sales regulation two weekends and boasted surprise it’s time for more of her fellow musicians to step up. (at Bonnaroo in 2016) and partnering with Billboard to performances by The Weeknd with “Where artists are concerned, the silence is deafening,” pen an open letter to Congress urging gun control after says the Nashville-based singer. “I’ve been very the Pulse shooting. Nav; Drake, Migos and Ty Dolla $ign disappointed to see that.” Says Crow, “You are not threatening your fan base with Future; and Lauryn Hill with At the 2017 Billboard Touring Conference and by saying we need to have some kind of regulation that DJ Snake — complementing riveting Awards at the Montage in Beverly Hills on Nov. 14, looks at gun safety.” —MELINDA NEWMAN headlining sets from Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga, who was booked after a then-pregnant Beyoncé bowed out. OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL VENUES, AGENCIES, PROMOTERS VIE FOR AWARDS Golden Gate Park, Leading players in the live-music industry worldwide are among the finalists in multiple categories, San Francisco, while the promotion and marketing teams behind the hottest tours also compete for honors Aug. 11-13 Concert Marketing & Promotion Top Arena Top Independent Promoter Metallica, The Who, Bruno Mars’ Paint the Madison Square Garden, Worldwide Lorde and Gorillaz World Gold Campaign for New York Another Planet Entertainment helped Outside the 24K Magic Tour O2 Arena, London Frontier Touring Lands celebrate Outside Lands Khalid’s Summer #F21xMusic T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas Mercury Concerts its 10th anniversary drew fervent fans. Digital and We Are Forever along with “the campaigns for Forever 21 Top Venue Under 10,000 Seats Top Agency best and most innovative local food IMAGES. MAZUR/GETTY EVIN Lady Gaga’s Dream Ticket Auditorio Nacional, Paradigm Talent Agency and wine artisans,” says promoter promotion with Verizon Mexico City Creative Artists Agency Rick Farman of Superfly, which co- for her Joanne The Axis at Planet WME created the event with Another Planet World Tour Hollywood, Las Vegas Entertainment as a culinary and Taylor Radio City Music Hall, Top Club music showcase. Swift’s Super New York The Fillmore, Philadelphia Saturday House of Blues, Boston STAGECOACH FESTIVAL show with Top Venue Under 5,000 Seats 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. Empire Polo Club, Indio, Calif., April 28-30 AT&T and The Colosseum at Caesars An 84th birthday performance by Swift-curated Palace, Las Vegas Top Amphitheater (with guests Neil Young, channel Fox Theatre, Atlanta BB&T Pavilion, , and John on AT&T’s Orpheum Theatre, Camden, N.J. Doe) was a highlight at Stagecoach, DirecTV Now Minneapolis , which also featured first-time festival streaming-TV Los Angeles Swift appearances by , service Top Promoter Northwell Health , Tommy James, The Foo Fighters’ Cal Jam and AEG Live at Jones Beach Theater, Zombies, and Rhiannon North American Concrete and Live Nation Entertainment Wantagh, N.Y. Giddens. It was, says festival director Gold Tour with Capital One OCESA-CIE Stacy Vee, “by far our most eclectic

lineup to date.” —DEAN BUDNICK Methodology: Award winners are chosen from among 46 finalists in 15 categories, based on attendance and ticket sales as compiled by Billboard Boxscore for events taking place from Oct. 1, 2016, through Sept. 30, 2017. Boxscore tour totals are not revealed before the awards. The Breakthrough

Artist and Humanitarian of the Year honorees, along with the concert marketing and promotion award winner, are chosen by Billboard editors. COACHELLA: ROGER HO. OUTSIDE LANDS: JORGENSEN PHOTOGRAPHY. MOMS: ERIK MCGREGOR/ALAMY. CROW: ALO CEBALLOS/GETTY IMAGES. SWIFT: K

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