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LIVE! ROUNDUP took in $2.5 million from sellout crowds on the prior tour’s top ticket, which averaged both nights. around $89. Based on the ve shows that have already occurred, overall box o¢ce sales from MORE LIVE! HIGHLIGHTS CHURCH OFF AND the Double Down tour could potentially New York City’s Madison Square Garden land near the $60 million mark by June reigns No. 1 on Hot Tickets based on a sold 28-29, the last of the two-night weekend ticket count of 109,966 during the Jan. 16- engagements on the tour itinerary. The Feb. 15 period of eligibility for this month’s RUNNING WITH result would top Church’s 2017 tour, which charts. Sixty-six percent of that total comes grossed $52.8 million from far more shows from one engagement: comedian Sebastian — 61 compared with the 37 performances Maniscalco’s four-show stint at the Man- DOUBLE DOWN TOUR planned for this year’s run. The average hattan arena on Jan. 19-20 that drew 72,960 number of sold seats per show this year reg- fans. With an $8.2 million take, it’s also the isters at 14,893 so far early in the jaunt. It’s highest-grossing event on Hot Tickets in 2019 with the moderately higher than Holdin’ My Own’s the largest venue category. Nashville-based launch of his Double Down tour that 14,166 per show average, but the current top Outback Concerts was the promoter for the spans the rst half of the year booked ticket price is $139 — 56 percent higher than Maniscalco event in New York. — Bob Allen for two-night engagements at venues in 18 North American Ecities. Generally, the tour sched- Eric Church's ule features a Friday and Saturday Double Down performance in a dierent city every tour features week. Although most of the shows a Friday and Saturday night will be staged in arenas, the country performance in superstar added a stadium date, May a diﬀerent city 25 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, as every week. part of Memorial Day weekend. As he did on the Holdin’ My Own trek in 2017, Church will forgo opening acts and perform marathon sets for each show, drawing from his six studio albums. The rst ve dates on Church’s 2019 tour all rank among the 10 highest-grossing Hot Tickets this month in the category for venues with more than 15,000 seats. His two-show stand at Target Center in Minneapolis, No. 3 on the chart, generated the largest gross among the ve based on $3.5 million earned from 30,426 sold seats during the fourth weekend of the trek (Feb. 8-9). It also establishes a new gross record for Church among all his solo headlining concerts reported to Pollstar since the beginning of his career. Plus, the other four dates on Hot Tickets also surpass his old gross record set in May 2017 at Nash- ville’s Bridgestone Arena during Holdin’ My Own. That two-show gig

68 FEBRUARYMARCH 2019 2019 GETTY IMAGES 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 $2,440,865 2 1 Ranked by gross. basedonigures Alldata provided toPollstar. Daterange: 1/16/19-2/15/19. updatedasofFeb. Data 19. 9 $2,842,220 8 7 $2,922,111 6 5 4 $4,333,646 3 2 $8,282,629 1 Ranked by gross. basedonigures Alldata provided toPollstar. Daterange: 1/16/19-2/15/19. updatedasofFeb. Data 19. HOT HOT 10 RANK 10 RANK

$695,154 $736,277 $806,245 $850,741 $1,064,106 $1,347,638 $1,361,249 $1,647,817 $6,003,322 GROSS $2,602,894 $2,632,660 $2,774,525 $2,879,053 $3,038,832 $3,559,805 GROSS

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Nickelback Mumford &Sons Florence +TheMachine Grease -TheArena Experience Justin Timberlake Cher Elton John Mumford &Sons Keith Urban Premier Boxing Champions EVENT A Tribute toChrisCornell Eric Church Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake Eric Church Eric Church Eric Church Eric Church George Strait Sebastian Maniscalco EVENT I AmTheHighway:

29,200 Enterprise Center, St.Louis 17,440 New York 18,522 Madison Square Garden Arena, Pepsi Center, Denver TD Garden, Boston 29,511 CHI HealthCenter, Omaha,Neb. 30,426 Arena,Little Caesars Detroit Target Center, Minneapolis T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas New York Madison Square Garden Arena, VENUE 13,179 Forum, Inglewood, Calif. Boondall, Australia Centre,Brisbane Entertainment RAC Arena, Perth, Australia Sidney Myer MusicBowl, Melbourne RAC Arena, Perth, Australia 11,517Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ininite Energy Center, Duluth,Ga. Pechanga Arena, SanDiego Sidney Myer MusicBowl, Melbourne Boondall, Australia Centre,Brisbane Entertainment 12,736 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas VENUE

MORE THAN 15,000 CAPACITY 10,00115,000 CAPACITY

tickets Jan. 16-Feb. 15. Square Garden 109,966 sold New York City’s Madison 28,606 31,187 33,937 72,960 SOLD TICKETS

8,255 8,974 12,136 13,496 11,959 9,657 21,791 23,134 SOLD TICKETS Messina TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents Live NationGlobalTouring Live NationGlobalTouring TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents TouringMessina Group /AEG Presents Outback Concerts PROMOTER Live Nation

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69 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 HOTTICKETS 5,00110,000 CAPACITY Ranked by gross. All data based on igures provided to Pollstar. Date range: 1/16/19-2/15/19. Data updated as of Feb. 19.

TICKETS RANK GROSS EVENT VENUE SOLD PROMOTER DATE SHOWS 1 $796,160 Wobbleland Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 15,261 Another Planet Entertainment Jan. 18-19 2 San Francisco 2 $738,377 James Taylor Pensacola (Fla.) Bay Center 7,448 Beaver Productions Feb. 10 1 3 $665,606 Massive Attack AFAS Live, Amsterdam 11,870 Live Nation Feb. 1-2 2 4 $641,212 A-Lin Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn. 5,309 In-House, IEM Group Feb. 2 1 5 $633,685 Ha*Ash Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City 18,787 OCESA / CIE Feb. 1-2 2 6 $512,660 Tyler Perry's Madea Zappos Theater at 6,038 Caesars Entertainment, Live Nation Jan. 27 1 Goes To Jail Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas 7 $506,495 Keith Urban Newcastle Entertainment Centre, 5,290 In-House, TEG Live Jan. 23 1 Broadmeadow, Australia 8 $469,021 Kelly Clarkson Landers Center, Southaven, Miss. 7,391 Messina Touring Group / AEG Presents Feb. 9 1 GETTY IMAGESGETTY 9 $424,859 A$AP Rocky Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 8,583 Another Planet Entertainment Feb. 2 1 San Francisco 10 $416,862 Timbiriche Auditorio Telmex, Zapopan, Mexico 5,436 OCESA / CIE Feb. 9 1

70 MARCH 2019 Ranked by gross. basedonigures Alldata provided toPollstar. Daterange: 1/16/19-2/15/19. updatedasofFeb. Data 19. HOT 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Ranked by gross. basedonigures Alldata provided toPollstar. Daterange: 1/16/19-2/15/19. updatedasofFeb. Data 19. HOT 10 9 8 7 $645,867 6 5 4 3 2 1 RANK 10 RANK

$127,210 $127,878 $152,367 $152,686 $161,813 $214,024 $227,370 $229,055 $277,330 $514,334 GROSS $461,118 $463,573 $534,280 $551,340 $874,889 $1,206,906 $1,281,643 $1,309,303 $1,493,363 GROSS

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Les Misérables Les Misérables Kinky Boots Rodney Carrington KreischerBert Hammerstein's Cinderella Rodgers And Neil Young Gabriel Iglesias Music The SoundOf Monty Python's Spamalot EVENT Sebastian Maniscalco Palm BeachOpera La Traviata Dancing With TheStars Tedeschi Trucks Band Rock Ages Of Tedeschi Trucks Band Chocolate Factory Charlie andthe On Your Feet! Cats Miss Saigon EVENT in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow, in 28 Jan. on Hydro SSE The at Attack Massive joins Andy Horace

Teatro Telcel, Mexico City Teatro Telcel, Mexico City Center,Arts CedarFalls, Iowa Gallagher BluedornPerforming Beau Rivage Resort &Casino, Biloxi, Miss. The Wilbur, Boston Center, Morristown, N.J. Mayo Performing Arts Theatre,Pantages Minneapolis Center, Midland,Texas Wagner NoëlPerforming Arts Midland (Mich.)Centerfor theArts Hershey (Pa.) Theatre VENUE 5,512 Harbor, Oxon Hill,Md.a The TheateratMGMNational Dreyfoos Hall,West Palm Beach,Fla. Rosemont (Ill.)Theatre Ryman Auditorium, Nashville Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis Chicago Theatre, Chicago Performing Center Arts Providence (R.I.) Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis Center Arts Providence (R.I.) Performing Durham (N.C.) Performing Center Arts VENUE

2,0015,000 CAPACITY 2,000 OR LESS CAPACITY

2,632 2,351 3,046 2,741 4,316 2,852 970 3,521 4,485 7,729 SOLD TICKETS 4,814 6,876 6,774 9,110 13,227 22,229 18,341 23,712 21,174 SOLD TICKETS

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