Touring
Garth Brooks Reveals Grand Ole Opry House Concert After Selling Out Two Ryman Shows
“I am stunned at the number of people who showed up for this on sale,” Brooks said. “And as happy as I should be, I feel bad for the people who did not get tickets. We have already talked to the Opry House and we are starting on a plan to take care of as many as we can who did not get tickets.” In July, Brooks’ show at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium was called off shortly after it began, due to inclement weather. Soon after, he canceled the next five stops on his stadium tour due to concerns with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, before ultimately trading stadium shows for smaller-capacity venues. Brooks will also take the stage at the Grand Ole Opry House on Oct. 30, as part of the Grand Ole Opry’s celebration of its 5,000th Saturday night broa...
Pandemic Strips Over $1B From Australia’s Live Entertainment Sector: Report
This “significant decline can be primarily attributed to COVID-19 restrictions,” explains the report, noting major tours from the likes of Pink, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry in 2018, and visits by U2 and Eminem in 2019, were absent from the touring calendar last year, as all three levels of government ordered the shutdown of gathering places to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a crippled market, “Contemporary Music,” a category that includes rock, pop and hip-hop concerts, was the largest genre, accounting for 51% of revenue, and, combined with festivals comprised 60% of total industry revenue and 43% of attendances. Don’t expect the data for 2021 to bring any cheer to the live business. The impacts of COVID-19 this year may be even greater, ...
Then and Now: Jagged Little Pill 25 Becomes Alanis Morissette’s Biggest Tour Ever
In the summer of 1996, now several singles deep, Morissette mounted a full North American amphitheater run via the Can’t Not Tour, bringing in $16.7 million and selling over 700,000 tickets. On a per night basis, she earned four times as much, sold three times as many tickets and bumped the average ticket by 20% from her previous tour, with less than three months in between. She finished ’96 as the No. 8 touring artist of the year, an especially impressive mark for the then-22-year-old artist amid a uniformly more established top 10, with acts like the Eagles, KISS and Bob Seger. After several tours promoting Morissette’s subsequent albums, she celebrated Pill’s first decade with the Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour in 2005. Intentionally scaled down to more intimate venues for the s...
Chris Stapleton Postpones Shows to Rest Injured Vocals
On medical advice, Stapleton will “continue my vocal rest through the weekend in order to fully heal. I am sorry that so many of you have been inconvenienced and I’m truly thankful for your patience and understanding.” He continues, “Nothing is more personal to me than the experience of music. I’m eternally grateful for the privilege of sharing in that journey with all of you night after night. Thank you for your continued support and I hope to see you all very soon.” The Nashville, TN shows have been rescheduled for Dec. 10 and 11, and a replacement date for Ohio’s Riverbend will be locked in for 2022 and announced “as soon as possible.” The Lexington, Kentucky native is touring in support of his fourth full-length album Starting Over, which blasted to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top ...
Garth Brooks Sets Two Ryman Auditorium Shows for November
“What would be fun would be to somehow do a residency in Vegas and in Nashville, because they got great places to play here. Now, I’m not going to drop the ball as tomorrow’s a pretty big announcement,” Brooks teased. Later in the episode, he offered even more details, saying, “It would be crazy if it were for Thanksgiving of this year…I mean, can you imagine? Whew, that would be just so quick,” before adding, “I fear I said too much.” Brooks previously held a residency at the Encore at Wynn Las Vegas from 2009-2014, during which he performed nearly 200 acoustic shows. The news of the upcoming Ryman concert follows Brooks’ recent cancellation of several stadium shows due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, Brooks...
Live Nation, Oak View Group and GL Events Team Up for New São Paolo Arena
The 20,000-capacity venue begins construction next year and is slated to open in 2024. Live Nation, the world’s largest entertainment company, and global development company Oak View Group are teaming up for a 20,000-capacity arena in São Paulo, Brazil. The city’s mayor, Ricardo Nunes, announced the collaboration — which will be in partnership with Brazilian-based event company GL Events — on Friday (Oct. 15). The city of São Paulo, which has a population of 12 million, awarded the three entities a 30-year lease for the Anhembi campus, which spans 4 million square feet. Arena São Paulo, as it will be called, will anchor the Anhembi entertainment district and produce live even...
Coachella No Longer Requires Vaccine at 2022 Festival
In August, officials with Goldenvoice’s parent company AEG Presents announced that starting Oct. 1, fans attending events produced by the company would need to show proof of full vaccination to gain entry to events like Coachella and the country-music-focused Stagecoach festival, which takes place in the same location the weekend after Coachella. “We have come to the conclusion that, as a market leader, it was up to us to take a real stand on vaccination status,” said AEG Presents CEO Jay Marciano at the time. “Just a few weeks ago, we were optimistic about where our business, and country, were heading. The Delta variant, combined with vaccine hesitancy, is pushing us in the wrong direction again. We realize that some people might look at this as a dramatic step, ...
Haru Nemuri Drops New Single ‘Déconstruction’ & Rescheduled U.S. Tour Dates
The 26-year-old singer-songwriter also announced the new dates for her U.S. tour, which has been pushed back for the fourth time due to the pandemic. Fans in the U.S. will now have to wait until next year to see Haru in concert according to the latest announcement. Haru Nemuri North American Tour 2022 March 4, 2022 Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, New YorkMarch 7, 2022 Sleeping Village, Chicago, IllinoisMarch 9, 2022 DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CaliforniaMarch 11, 2022 The Echo, Los Angeles, California You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their ...
Coldplay, Twenty One Pilots, Imagine Dragons Tapped for iHeartRadio’s ALTer EGO
iHeartMedia’s ALTer EGO is bringing the biggest names in alternative rock music back to Los Angeles. On Jan. 15, Coldplay, twenty one pilots, Imagine Dragons and more will perform at the Forum with a nationwide livestream. The lineup for the fifth annual iHeartRadio ALTer EGO Presented by Capital One will also include Dragons, Kings of Leon, Willow, All Time Low and more. The winter event will be hosted by Woody of iHeartRadio ALT 98.7’s nationally-syndicated The Woody Show. “I’m psyched!” Woody said in a release. “When the line-up is this good, with so much talent on the stage, it takes the pressure off the host. No one will notice and/or remember and/or care if I did a good job or not!” You D...
Two-Thirds of Music Fans Favor Vaccine or Mask Mandates at Concerts: Study
Implementing COVID-19 safety requirements “is the number one thing anyone can do to take care of those around them and we are encouraging as many shows as possible to adopt this model,” said Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino in a letter to staff in August. MusicWatch, which surveyed 753 active music listeners, also found that just 6% of respondents would not frequent a venue where there were COVID-19 safety requirements. Only 15% of fans said they would be comfortable with attendees using “common sense” regarding vaccination and masking requirements for indoor concerts. As general manager of Tipitina’s in New Orleans, Brian Greenberg told Billboard in August that implementing vaccine requirements for his venue was met with mixed reviews. ...
Eric Church Sets 2 Solo Shows After Bandmates Test Positive for COVID-19
Church launched the aptly named tour Sept. 17 at Lexington, Ky.’s Rupp Arena. The tour is slated to run through May 20, 2022, culminating with a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Church’s Gather Again Tour has been a joyous reunion for the artist and his fans alike, marking his return to the road after the pandemic forced the postponement of both Church’s Heart & Soul triple album and his 2020 tour. It also marks the first time Church has used an in-the-round stage for his tour. For a Billboard cover story earlier this year, Church received his COVID-19 vaccination during his Billboard photo shoot. “It became very clear to me that the only way to really get back to normal is through vaccinations,” he told Billboard at the time. “You’ve got to get needles...
Could Criminal Charges Against Pras Impact Fugees’ Overseas Reunion Dates?
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed to Billboard that Michel was forced to surrender his passport as a result of the charges and ordered not to apply for or possess a passport or any other travel documents as the case continues to slowly wind its way through the legal system; Michel’s attorney, David Kenner, also confirmed that his client’s passport has been confiscated, but tells Billboard that he is working on getting it returned. Kenner says he brought up the topic of the passport with the government this week, has advised the judge in the case about the tour, and plans to file a motion soon seeking to modify the conditions of the rapper’s release to allow him to get his travel documents back for the planned non-U.S. dates. “It’...
