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year-end analysis

So Much For The Concert Business Saving The Music Industry's Behind

Pollstar's list of the top 20 concert tours of 2007 had good news for Sting and bad news for pretty much anyone else trying to figure out if the road life would help make up the money lost by nosediving album sales. The 20 top-grossing tours—which were led by the Police's reunion jaunt, which grossed $131.9 million—made a total of $996 million, a number that's down 15% from last year's top 20 total. More »

4:45 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By mjohnston
981 views, 2 comments

dispatch

Unknown Band Becomes Slightly Less Unknown Thanks To "Pollstar" News Item

Today's Pollstar has a piece on Dispatch, who will become the first unsigned band to headline Madison Square Garden when it plays a benefit show/reunion there in July. The article was supposedly predicated on this question: More »

3:18 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By mjohnston
912 views, 8 comments