Rihanna's #1 On Billboard's Hot Tours Chart
Posted by Joseph Lee on 01.30.2012
She made $12 million...
Rihanna is #1 on the Billboard Hot Tours chart, which looks at the top-grossing tours from the most recent weeks.
Rihanna's Loud tour finished its European leg in December and included seven headlining performances at the O2 Arena in London (November 13-15, December 1, 20-22). More than 116,000 fans attended, with sales of $8.5 million in ticket sales. The Manchester Arena had three Rihanna concerts, which is an additional $3.1 million. This gives her a total of $12.6 million. The O2 World in Hamburg, Germany, reported a show of 13,409 people in a sellout show. The venue normally holds 15,000 people.
Here's the full top ten tours from the chart, Information is in this order: Artist, Ticket sales, dates, venues/cities (with Shows/Sellouts in parenthesis) and attendance (with capacity in parenthesis).
1. Rihanna - $12,690,654. November 13-December 4. O2 Arena, London (7/0), Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (3/3), O2 World, Hamburg (1/1). 178,594 (182,612).
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - $5,724,750. November 7-15. O2 Arena, London (3/0), Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (2/0). 74,717 (79,924).
3. Paul McCartney - $4,073,200. December 5-19. O2 Arena, London (1/0), Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (1/0). 29,746 (31,513).
4. Coldplay - $2,972,880. December 4-9. Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (1/0), O2 Arena, London (1/0). 34,735 (35,105).
5. Lee Evans - $2,567,080. November 8-12. Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (5/0). 53,391 (54,558).
6. Brad Paisley - $1,868,639. January 12-14. Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1/1), Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wis. (1/0), Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1). 35,788 (37,067).
7. Bryan Adams - $1,783,092. November 30-Jan. 18. Manchester Arena, Manchester, U.K. (1/0), O2 Arena, London (1/0), Gillioz Theatre, Springfield, Mo. (1/1). 28,545 (30,505)
8. Alan Carr - $1,255,920. November 5-6. O2 Arena, London (2/0). 26,136 (31,204).
9. Jay-Z & Kanye West - $1,217,610. November 14. BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Fla. (1/0). 11,826 (11,837).
