Bon Jovi rakes it in on his tour
Bon Jovi’s refrain for 2008 could well be “have a nice payday,” as the veteran New Jersey rock band topped Billboard’s tally of the year’s most lucrative concert tours worldwide.
The group attracted nearly 2.2 million fans and grossed $210.6 million, according to Billboard’s Boxscore, outpacing their fellow Jerseyites Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “Magic” tour, which raked in $204.5 million during the period of Nov. 14, 2007 through Nov. 11, 2008 covered by the magazine’s survey.
Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” tour, which is still going on, tallied $162 million during the period to place third, followed by the second leg of the Police’s reunion tour, which brought in $150 million.
Celine Dion rounded out the Top 5, generating $91 million on her return to the concert trail after staying put in Las Vegas for the previous five years.
Overall tour grosses globally came to more than $4 billion, a record that represents nearly a 13% increase over 2007.
-- Randy Lewis
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