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Shania Twain's Farewell Tour: $40 Million Grossed, and Counting
Billboard
By Bob Allen
August 27, 2015
Country superstars Kenny Chesney and Shania Twain head
up the list of touring artists on this week’s slate of Hot Tours (see list,
below) with multi-million dollar box office profits reported to
Billboard from their ongoing North American treks.
Chesney’s top ranking is based on $12.7 million in revenue from four concerts during the homestretch of his Big Revival tour that wraps on Saturday, Aug. 29. Along with an arena performance in Salt Lake City (Aug. 6) and an amphitheater date in Bangor, Maine (Aug. 13), he played return engagements for sellout crowds at stadiums in the Denver and New York City markets.
His performance at Sports Authority Field at Mile High marked his third appearance at the Denver stadium, having also stopped there during 2013’s No Shoes Nation tour and the Brothers of the Sun tour the previous summer. With Jason Aldean as co-headliner for this year’s event, the Aug. 1 concert topped his previous gross and attendance records at the venue, earning $5.2 million from a packed house of 54,674 fans.
He also returned to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. for a repeat performance, his fourth turn at headlining the NFL venue. The concert on Aug. 15, also with Aldean, racked up $6 million from 58,642 sold seats at the stadium, again topping the box office records from his three previous tours.
Twain earns her second-place showing with $5.2 million in revenue reported from five arena performances during the summer leg of the Rock This Country tour. The first show included in this tally was her concert in Louisville, Ky. on Aug. 3 that drew more than 10,000 fans. A similar sold ticket count was logged on the following evening at her concert in St. Louis. Next were shows in two more Midwestern cities, Des Moines, Iowa (Aug. 6) and Kansas City, Mo. (Aug. 7) and finally the fifth market, Austin, and her Aug. 9 concert on the campus of the University of Texas. Combined attendance from all five cities totaled 56,589 with sellouts reported at two of the venues -- Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines and Kansas City’s Sprint Center.
Sales from the Rock this Country tour have reached the $40 million mark so far, with 13 unreported concerts remaining. The sold ticket count tops 407,000 from 35 shows in the Boxscore database since the June 5 launch. The opening leg of the tour wrapped on Aug. 23, but Twain is set to begin a six-week run of fall performances in the U.S. and Canada on Sept. 12 in Spokane, Wash.
| HOT TOURS - Aug. 25, 2015 | |
| Ranked by Gross. Compiled from Boxscores reported Aug. 18-24 | |
| Rank | ACT |
| Total Gross | |
| Show Date Range | |
| Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts) | |
| Total Attendance (Capacity) | |
| 1 | KENNY CHESNEY |
| $12,751,257 | |
| Aug. 1-15 | |
| Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver (1/1) | |
| EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City (1/0) | |
| Darling's Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor, Maine (1/1) | |
| MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. (1/1) | |
| 136,386 (137,245) | |
| 2 | SHANIA TWAIN |
| $5,209,144 | |
| Aug. 3-9 | |
| KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. (1/0) | |
| Scottrade Center, St. Louis (1/0) | |
| Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa (1/1) | |
| Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo. (1/1) | |
| Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas (1/0) | |
| 56,589 (59,189) | |
| 3 | FLEETWOOD MAC |
| $4,554,720 | |
| June 16-July 8 | |
| SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (3/0) | |
| 32,698 (33,824) | |
| 4 | BILLY JOEL |
| $3,939,042 | |
| Aug. 13 | |
| Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia (1/1) | |
| 38,313 (38,313) | |
| 5 | NEIL DIAMOND |
| $3,689,875 | |
| May 26-July 7 | |
| Toyota Center, Houston (1/0) | |
| American Airlines Center, Dallas (1/0) | |
| SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (1/0) | |
| 31,529 (33,012) | |
| 6 | JOHN MELLENCAMP |
| $2,955,366 | |
| May 27-June 23 | |
| Aiken Theatre, Evansville, Ind. (1/0) | |
| Peabody Opera House, St. Louis (1/1) | |
| Coronado Performing Arts Center, Rockford, Ill. (1/1) | |
| Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wis. (1/0) | |
| Peoria Civic Center Theatre, Peoria, Ill. (1/1) | |
| Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wis. (1/1) | |
| Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne, Ind. (1/1) | |
| DeVos Performance Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1/0) | |
| Detroit Opera House, Detroit (1/0) | |
| Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric, Baltimore (1/0) | |
| Altria Theater, Richmond, Va. (1/0) | |
| Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia (1/1) | |
| Berglund Performing Arts Theatre, Roanoke, Va. (1/0) | |
| Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah, Ga. (1/1) | |
| William B. Bell Auditorium, Augusta, Ga. (1/0) | |
| Orpheum Theatre, Memphis (1/1) | |
| 33,254 (35,124) | |
| 7 | FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE |
| $1,880,218 | |
| Aug. 13-15 | |
| Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, N.C. (1/0) | |
| PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte (1/0) | |
| First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown, Pa. (1/0) | |
| 58,450 (61,724) | |
| 8 | IMAGINE DRAGONS |
| $1,180,650 | |
| July 14-24 | |
| Philips Arena, Atlanta (1/0) | |
| The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (1/1) | |
| 22,717 (23,860) | |
| 9 | ELTON JOHN |
| $1,056,450 | |
| June 19 | |
| SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (1/0) | |
| 10,454 (10,711) | |
| 10 | JULIÓN ÁLVAREZ |
| $909,021 | |
| July 11 | |
| The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (1/0) | |
| 9,844 (10,884) | |
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