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 Louisiana'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 Kenny Chesney 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 country music 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 Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Carrie D.C., Sept. 17 11,606 Underwood, Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Di- sit right up by the stage and you're seeing Ras- $629,880 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, PITBULL $159/569/559/ erks Bentley, Sara Evans, Little Big Town, cal Flatts, Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean Red Rock Casino Amphitheatre, 7,316 Red Rock Casino Resort $49 Las Vegas, Oct. 8 sellout Joe Nichols 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, LUKE BRYAN, THE BAND PERRY 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, JAKE OWEN 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.