IRON MAIDEN Ranked At #2 On Billboard’s Hot Tours Recap

August 26, 2016, 7 years ago

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IRON MAIDEN Ranked At #2 On Billboard’s Hot Tours Recap

Iron Maiden lands on Billboard’s Hot Tours recap at #2 just behind Coldplay, with the final counts reported from its own trek through Europe that included headlining dates and festival appearances at 32 cities in 24 countries during a 10-week span.

The European tour was the final leg of the band’s Book Of Souls World Tour that played in six continents from February 24th through August 4th. Overall ticket sales from the tour reached $54.6 million from 47 reported shows with 816,721 tickets sold during the 23-week run.

Included in this week’s tally for Iron Maiden are 13 concerts from the band’s final stretch through Europe that added $19.5 million in revenue to the tour’s overall box office counts. Among these final shows, the highest gross was logged at Ullevi Stadion in Gothenburg, Sweden. With a crowd of 54,507 in attendance and $4.1 million in ticket sales, the June 17th performance ranks as the Book Of Souls Tour’s highest-grossing single engagement worldwide.

Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls World Tour concluded on August 4th when the band performed at Wacken Open Air in Germany, marking the end of the trek that began in late February and touched down on six continents.

In a video recap, which can be found below, the members of Iron Maiden share memories from the tour and thank fans for coming out to the shows.

Iron Maiden Manager Rod Smallwood stated: “We decided to finish the tour at Wacken as it is the ideal way to end this magical tour playing to 80,000 core metal fans at this legendary metal festival. Wacken has become such as international event with many thousands of fans from many other countries around the world joining and celebrating with the German fans so it is perfect for the final show of a memorable tour. Everywhere we’ve played the fans have been amazing and the reaction to the new songs and stage show has been phenomenal. The band has loved every minute on stage.”



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