BLACK SABBATH - Farewell Tour's Latin American Run Lands Band On Top Of “Hot Tours” List
January 12, 2017, 7 years ago
Black Sabbath’s The End Tour, billed as the band’s farewell trek, wrapped its 2016 run through four continents in early December 2016 with a final stadium performance in São Paulo, Brazil, which leads the latest roundup of Billboard’s Hot Tours list.
The tour stopped in eight Latin American cities during November and December to cap a busy year on the road that began in mid-January with an opening North American leg. An Oceania trek in April and summer runs through Europe and the US and Canada preceded the tour’s final stretch of the year that included Mexico, Chile, Argentina and, finally, Brazil.
The São Paulo concert held at Estádio do Morumbi was the last of four Brazilian dates on the itinerary. The December 4th show was attended by 64,744 fans and racked up box office sales topping $5.5 million to rank as the tour’s highest-grossing engagement, based on reported Boxscores. Two nights earlier the band played in Rio de Janeiro at Praça da Apoteose, a square in the city that is often the site for major outdoor concerts. The Rio performance drew a crowd of 26,764, earning $2.1 million in ticket sales. Both events were produced by Brazilian concert promoter T4F-Time For Fun.
Read the full story at Billboard.com.
Remaining Black Sabbath tour dates:
January
17 - Cologne, Germany - Laxness Arena
20 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena
22 - Manchester, UK - Arena
24 - Glasgow, UK - The SSE Hydro
26 - Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena
29 - London, UK - The O2
31 - London, UK - The O2
February
2 - Birmingham, UK - Genting Arena
4 - Birmingham, UK - Genting Arena