Journey and Def Leppard Rock Hot Tours List, GOT7 Debuts
8/17/2018 by Eric Frankenberg
https://www.billboard.com/articles/colu ... iz_touringJourney and Def Leppard lead the newest Hot Tours round-up (below) with the second leg of their co-headline tour. They reported 17 shows to Billboard Boxscore for a total gross of $30,384,259. The second leg of their six-month trek spanned July 1 to 28 and ranged from 8,500-seat arenas to 45,000-capacity baseball parks, the largest of which was the sold-out show at Denver’s Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, on July 21.
The rock veterans have a combined 33 top 40-charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and 26 top 40 albums on the Billboard 200. Def Leppard’s Hysteria ranked as the No. 25 biggest album of all time on the Billboard 200 chart, while Journey’s Escape placed at No. 47.
As noted above, the co-headline tour has considerable range in capacity around the country. While Journey and Def Leppard are both powerful touring acts individually, they brought in some extra juice for the bigger shows on this run. Cheap Trick guested at their show at Minneapolis’ Target Field and The Pretenders supported four dates in Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, and Detroit.
Check out the full top 10 of the Hot Tours tally below
HOT TOURS - AUG. 18, 2018
Ranked by Gross, Compiled from Boxscores reported Aug. 7-14
ACT
Total Gross
Show Date Range
Venue, City (Shows/Sellouts)
Total Attendance (Capacity)
RANK
1
Journey & Def Leppard
$30,384,529
July 1-28
SunTrust Arena, Atlanta (1/1)
Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville, Ind. (1/1)
FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tenn. (0/1)
Verizon Arena, North Little Rock, Ark. (1/1)
BOK Center, Tulsa (1/1)
KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. (1/1)
Comerica Park, Detroit (1/1)
Wrigley Field, Chicago (1/1)
American Family Insurance Amphitheater, Milwaukee (1/1)
INTRUST Bank Arena, Wichita, Kan. (1/1)
Denny Sanford Premier Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. (1/1)
Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Neb. (0/1)
Coors Field, Denver (1/1)
Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa (1/1)
Sprint Center, Kansas City (1/1)
Target Field, Minneapolis (1/1)
Fargodome, Fargo, N.D. (0/1)
340,157 (346,982)
2
Taylor Swift
$18,089,415
Aug. 10-11
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta (2/2)
116,746 (116,746)
3
Kenny Chesney
$5,471,438
Aug. 11
Nissan Stadium, Nashville (1/1)
55,182 (55,182)
4
Billy Joel
$4,777,835
Aug. 10
Fenway Park, Boston (1/1)
36,455 (36,455)
5
Imagine Dragons
$2,952,169
July 21-Aug. 7
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (2/2)
Amphitheater at the Wharf, Orange Beach, Ala. (1/1)
38,374 (38,374)
6
Jeff Lynne's ELO
$2,910,416
Aug. 4-5
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (2/2)
25,636 (25,636)
7
Rod Stewart
$2,808,343
Aug. 4-7
Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (1/1)
Madison Square Garden, New York (1/1)
23,757 (23,757)
8
Phish
$1,642,872
July 27-28
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (2/2)
23,482 (23,482)
9
GOT7
$1,303,154
July 6
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (0/1)
9,600 (10,371)
10
Paramore
$889,150
July 18
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (1/1)
13,475 (13,475)
Perry's good natured bonhomie & the world’s most charmin smile,knocked fans off their feet. Sportin a black tux,gigs came alive as he swished around the stage thrillin audiences w/ charisma that instantly burnt the oxygen right out of the venue.TR.com