RUSH - Time Machine Tour Grosses Over $18 Million
October 21, 2010, 13 years ago
Bob Allen of Billboard.com reports that Canadian rock legends RUSH rank # 1 on the Hot Tours chart with a gross total of $18,989,834 from their Time Machine Tour that played North American venues from late June through early October.
The tour schedule included concerts at outdoor amphitheaters and arenas along with appearances at state fairs. The top gross among the reported concerts came from a two-performance engagement at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. The Denver-area outdoor venue sold more than 16,000 tickets for both shows (August 16th and 18th) grossing just over $1.5 million. The largest amphitheater crowd for a single performance came from the Houston market with 15,225 fans in attendance at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion on September 25th. Among the arenas on the schedule, the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, NV produced the top gross with $993,351 in sold tickets for a concert on August 14th.
This year's Time Machine Tour is the first major concert outing for Rush since the Snakes & Arrows Tour in 2007-2008 that grossed over $52 million. The Canadian rockers, who are currently working on a new album to be released in 2011, are the 2010 recipient of the Legends of Live Award to be presented at the Billboard Touring Conference in New York City on November 4th.
Coming it at # 2, with a paltry $9.6 million was country artist Toby Keith.
