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| Soldatti |
The Rolling Stones got 3 entries on the Billboard Year End Charts:
The first is "Forty Licks" at #56 on the Billboard 200 year end. The album was the No. 56 most sold on U.S this year while last year was ranked at #79 on the same list.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/yearend/2003/bb200_2.jsp
The second is "Sympathy For The Devil". The single is ranked at #9 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales year end.
http://www.billboard.com/bb/yearend/2003/dance_3.jsp
The third is for the tour but better here is the article:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/yearend/2003/touring.jsp
Springsteen, Stones Tours Rock Box Office
By Ray Waddell
Bruce Springsteen's summer homecoming at Giants Stadium in New Jersey broke the first record. A multi-star bill headlined by the Rolling Stones in Toronto in the wake of the SARS outbreak cracked the second.
Springsteen achieved a remarkable box-office feat with his 10-night, sold-out run at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. With a ticket gross of $38,684,050 and attendance of 566,560, the July 15-Aug. 31 shows rank as the top Billboard Boxscore of the year, or any other year.
The previous one-act Boxscore gross record resulted from seven Rolling Stones sellouts at the Tokyo Dome in 1995 that drew 285,294 people and 2.5 billion yen ($27.6 million). The multi-act Woodstock '99 bill grossed $28.8 million.
Springsteen's Jersey run was part of the Boss' career-reaffirming Rising tour.
"I don't know if [setting a record] means that much to [Springsteen], but I like it," Jon Landau, Springsteen's longtime manager, told Billboard at the tour's conclusion. "I think Bruce is very proud of this tour, as he should be. But as far as statistics, management gets to fuss over that a little more. What he did at Giants Stadium is a fabulous thing."
The Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, a July 30 throwdown that grossed $7.6 million and drew 489,176 people, was a record for a ticketed event.
Held at Toronto's Downsview Parc, the bill featured the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, the Guess Who, Justin Timberlake, Blue Rodeo, the Isley Brothers, Sass Jordon and others.
"It was fantastic," said Michael Cohl, international promoter/producer for the Rolling Stones' current Licks tour, at the time. "This may have been the only festival that ran on time. When the Rolling Stones took the stage, we were five minutes ahead of schedule."
Produced by House of Blues Concerts Canada, along with Clear Channel Entertainment Canada, Molson Breweries and the Toronto-based Cohl's team, the concert boosted Toronto's tourism business and general economy after the SARS outbreak.
Attendance is believed to be second only to the 600,000 fans who showed up 30 years ago at the concert by the Band, the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Raceway. But organizers only sold some 200,000 tickets for that event.
When the Rolling Stones tour, the band inevitably dominates the top Boxscores for the year, and its Licks tour was no exception. Including the Toronto show, the Stones have 13 entries in the top 25 of the Top Boxscores chart, led by $11.3 million at London's Twickenham Stadium.
The second annual Bonnaroo Festival (June 13-15) in rural Manchester, Tenn., was the second-highest-grossing event of the year, taking in $11.5 million and drawing 80,576. The lineup for the popular jam band fest included the Dead, Neil Young, Widespread Panic, moe., Allman Brothers Band, Flaming Lips, the Roots, Emmylou Harris, Ben Harper and the Polyphonic Spree.
Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment produce Bonnaroo. Superfly president Jonathan Mayers is pleasantly surprised to find his event sandwiched between Springsteen and the Stones.
"It's like, 'What's wrong with this picture?' " Mayers says with a laugh, adding that plans are already under way for Bonnaroo III. "I thought this year's Bonnaroo was amazing. We brought things a step up across the board, from logistics to programming."
Before that anybody jump...:
From the top 25 of the Top Boxscores chart...
The Stones have 13 entries!!!!!
Congratulations at the Stones!
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| SHINE A LIGHT |
oh my, number one again.....yawn.....what else would you expect.....yawn. cannot help it they're so good, it's a curse!! |
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| gotdablouse |
#1 for dough, #0 for new material.
I wish they still had to worry about filling stadiums, enough to come up with new material at least... |
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| glencar |
Amen, Brudda! |
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