U PFRONT BOXSCORE Concert Grosses GROSS/ ARTIST(S) Attendance Venue, Date Capacity ., $2,155,105 ELTON JOHN $500/$250/ s+7c_,-553 The Colosseum at Caesars 12,568 Caesars Entertainment Palace, Las Vegas, Oct. 13 -15 three sellouts $1,285,617 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE $128.50, $89 0/ Staples Center, Los Angeles, 15,432 Concerts West /AEG Live $39 50/519.50 Oct. 6 sellout $1,122,650 PLACIDO DOMINGO, KATHERINE JENKINS ($14753885 New Zealand) CBS Canterbury Arena, 8,202 Domingo Christchurch $30056/575.33 Christchurch, New Zealand, Oct. 6 8,250 Fire On The Bayou $1,097,941 CAIFANES $119/539.50 Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los 13,900 Goldenvoice /AEG Live 's Bayou Country Superfest stakes its claim as an Angeles, Oct. 14 -15 two sellouts $1,077,999 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE $129.50/$89.50/ iconic music event Prudential Center, Newark, N.J., 14,131 $49.50/$19.50 Sept. 24 sellout Concerts West /AEG Live It was a confident Quint Davis who spoke Put you in my car $1,011,807 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE $129 50/589.50/ with us two years ago when the New Orleans and drive: KEITH Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill., 14,787 Concerts West /AEG Live $39.50/$19.50 Oct. 1 sellout Jazz & Heritage Festival producer launched URBAN will be one of the headliners at $981,367 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE ($1013350 Canadian) the inaugural Bayou Country Superfest for t year's B, you Air Canada Centre, Toronto, 12,l 70 Concerts West /AEG Live $125.41/$18.88 Sept. 29 selo9ut Memorial Day weekend at Louisiana State Uni- Cry perfest. $973,149 MEAT LOAF, THIRSTY MERC versity's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. ($976,998 Australian) Sydney Entertainment Centre, 9,357 $129.89/$99.56 Frontier Touring Produced in conjunction with TMG/AEG Live Sydney, Oct. 12 10,000 president Louis Messina, Superfest's first -year $855,263 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE $99.50/569.50/ HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif., 14,336 Concerts West/AEG Live headliners were and Taylor $35/$19..50 Oct. 7 sellout Swift, two acts whose tours Messina produces. FIRE RELIEF: THE CONCERT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS 10 $699,300 But launching a new event that costs millions is $250/$25 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, 15,078 Live Nation, in -house Oct. 17 16,378 always risky, especially in an iffy economy. Now, $680,663 BARRY MANILOW with four crowds of more than 75,000 having $299/$250/ Paris Theatre at Paris Las Vegas, 5,552 $125/$65 Concerts West /AEG Live packed Tiger Stadium for Superfest, the event Las Vegas, Oct. 8-10,14-16 6,983 six shows LOVEVOLUTION has established itself as one of the premier U.S. $634,810 AFTER: GARETH EMERY, MOBY & OTHERS $85/550 Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif., 9,550 Skills DJ Workshop festivals. Sept. 24 14,549 This year, Bayou Country Superfest has $630,133 CHRIS BROWN, KELLY ROWLAND, T-PAIN, TYGA $85.75/539.75 Verizon Center, Washington, 7,926 Live Nation, Haymon Entertainment booked , , Carrie D.C., Sept. 17 11,606 Underwood, , , Di- sit right up by the stage and you're seeing Ras- $629,880 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL $159/569/559/ erks Bentley, , , cal Flatts, and Jason Aldean Red Rock Casino Amphitheatre, 7,316 Red Rock Casino Resort $49 Las Vegas, Oct. 8 sellout and Jerrod Niemann, and the for $16 each. It's a great entertainment value." $603,196 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE is event expected to continue to grow. Scheduled The lineup has meat all the way down to the $99.50/$69.50/ 12,267 $39.50/519.50 TD Garden, Boston, Sept. 22 Concerts West /AEG Live for Memorial Day Weekend 2012 (May 26 -27), bone. "Everybody on the show has had major hit sellout Superfest has become a destination event with records," Davis says, adding that, like the school's $589,221 FURTHUR $64 75/$34 75 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, 10, 528 11.714 Nederlander Concerts staying power. football games, Superfest is a party. "One of the Oct. 5 -6 two shows The first year "blew out beyond our expecta- reasons our thing is a success, in terms of both $570,473 TIM McGRAW, , tions," Davis says, adding that it was immediately the $72 50/529 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga 15,447 Live Nation audience coming back and the performers Falls, Ohio, Aug. 12 18.680 evident that the event was a national draw. "We wanting to do it, is our show rocks. We have a $569,054 TIM McGRAW, LUKE BRYAN, THE BAND PERRY had Ticketmaster print out the area codes of ev- fantastic music audience down here. They're lath- $71 Riverbend Music Center, 15,089 Live Nation Cincinnati, July 31 18.899 erybody that bought a ticket that first year, and ered up for this thing, and that brings the best KEITH URBAN, it was 32 pages long. People came from 1.000 out of the performers. I know the personality of $564,574 $80/525 Target Center, Minneapolis, 10,264 G.A.M.E. towns, 47 states, two provinces in our show, and it's not laid -back. Oct. 15 11,192 Canada and a couple military bases So the show needs pop. We need $563,548 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE On The $89.50/$69.50/ 20 Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn 10,868 Concerts West /AEG Live in Germany." Road people that can go out there and 539.50/$19.50 Hills, Mich., Sept. 30 sellout Still, Chesney and Swift are rock the house." $557,209 DEF LEPPARD, HEART RAY $90/$70/$45/ USANA Amphitheatre, West 11,331 two of the biggest touring art- Major sponsors of the 2012 $20 United Concerts WADDELL 111 Valley City, Utah, Aug. 31 19.500 ists on the planet. "The question Superfest are the State Louisi- of $554,697 BRYAN ADAMS was: Was this a one -time thing, or ana Department of Culture, Rec- ($536.120 Australian) Sydney Opera House, Sydney, 5,836 $124.16/585.36 Frontier Touring could it really become one of the reation and Tourism, the Baton Sept. 17 -19 three sellouts $550,408 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE national iconic, big -time country Rouge Area Convention & Visitors $89.50/569.50/ Patriot Center, Fairfax, Va., 8,047 Concerts West /AEG Live music festivals? The second year Bureau and Bud Light. L'Auberge $39.50/519.50 Sept. 27 sellout we did 75,000 people from 45 Casino & Hotel of Baton Rouge is $549,788 MARC ANTHONY, JOEY VEGA states. They came back, and the thing stood up. an official sponsor of the festival. $98/$68 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, 7,631 Cardenas Marketing Network m Conn., Sept. 10 sellout So now as we go into year three, we're staking Davis believes sponsor interest will continue :$547,778 EVANESCENCE a claim as America's Memorial Day weekend to grow. "We've only done it twice, so it's really $75/545 Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Hato 7,789 Rompeolas Rey, Puerto Rico, Oct. 6 sel lout festival." interesting as it grows as a national event," he $532,275 DEF LEPPARD, HEART Urban, who headlines Saturday $125/$85/$65/ night with says. "I've got one festival that's 42 years old and 6,665 $35 BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 20 Live Nation Underwood, and Aldean, who headlines Sunday is an icon in America [JazzFest], and here is one 12.743 : $527,773 night with ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL, PRINCE ROYCE Flatts, are both return visitors. Davis that's only 2 years old ... Now that this thing is $79.50/$59.50/ Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo., 9,825 Concerts West /AEG Live says that speaks volumes to the stature of the establishing itself going into year three, we're m $39.50/$19.50 Oct. 3 sellout event. "It has a reputation now, [and these art- starting to grow with the local sponsorships. And $524,721 MAROON 5, TRAIN, NIKKI JEAN $175/$145/$65/ ists] all wanted to be part of it," he says. "I'm a as the years go by we'll grow both ends only DTE Energy Music Center, 15,309 Live Nation, Palace Sports 8 Entertainment -not $15 Clarkston, Mich., Aug. 21 sellout live show guy, and I'm excited about the show, more national sponsors but the local businesses ® $517,063 DEF LEPPARD, HEART because it's a hot show." in Baton Rouge want to associate it." with $49/$30 Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa, 10,554 Triangle Talent, Iowa State Fair Aug.13 11.605 There has been a learning curve, but the uni- The talent level will sustain as booking agents © $507,229 MARC ANTHONY, JOEY VEGA versity athletic depat Orient's experience in hosting can now point their artists toward an established, $171/5142.50/ Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif., 7,069 Cardenas Marketing Network, Live Nation 93,000 people inside and tens of thousands more well -run event, while artists tell one another how $75.75/537.50 Sept. 23 7.295 outside each fall for football is invaluable. "That much fun they have. "The show we've come up $504,672 JOSH GROBAN ($493,201 Canadian) Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alberta, 5,963 Live Nation first year was like running a marathon one cen- with this year you can't come up with just be- $101.81/$7112 Sept. 2 11,080 timeter at a time," Davis says. "There were chal- cause you've got money," Davis says. "They have $502,840 CAMILA lenges, but now that it's been done we've figured to want to be on it. This has really taken root, and $75/$35 Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Hato 10,683 Publivent Rey, Puerto Rico, Oct. 1 11.045 out all the logistics." I think it's here to stay." JASON ALDEAN, , Like all successful festivals, Superfest has one $501,120 $40/525 Illinois State Fair, Springfield, 15,329 Triangle Talent, Illinois State Fair Ill., Aug. sellout factor in particular working in its favor: value. The Billboard Touring Conference azAwards will be 14 $497,684 "We've got a two -night discount ticket for $80 held Nov. 9 -10 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. BRYAN ADAMS $485.280 Australian) Palais Theatre, Melbourne, 5,543 $123.07/584.61 Frontier Touring that works out to $8 an act," Davis says. "Our best For more information and to register, go to billboard - © Australia, Sept. 15 -16 two sellouts sideline seat is $150 for both nights, so you can touringconference.com. $489,120 JASON ALDEAN, CHRIS YOUNG, THOMPSON SQUARE $45/525 Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, 11,412 Triangle Talent, Iowa State Fair ® Iowa, Aug. 12 sellout 14 BILLBOARD OCTOBER 29, 2011