U2 France

One chart is based on just North American dates while our Worldwide chart is a ranking that includes all global tour dates. In addition to detailed data reported directly to Pollstar, these comprehensive charts include estimates on the missing dates.

These two charts are an advance of the release of Pollstar’s concert industry analysis, more extensive Top 200 Tours chart, and a variety of global venue and promoter ticket sales charts which are due to be released in early January as part of our 2010 Year-End Special Edition.

The Pollstar chart covers the 2010 calendar year, including U2’s shows in New Zealand and Australia. Pollstar lists U2 as playing 32 shows in 22 cities and says the band averaged $7.3 million in gross ticket sales per show. U2 sold a total of 1.6 million tickets at an average cost of $100.17 per ticket, Pollstar says.

Artists worked fewer shows in a tough business climate and those that overreached suffered the consequences. In general, the international concert business was stronger than in North America where overbooked and overpriced shows at outdoor amphitheatre venues made it an especially difficult year for Live Nation.

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