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City And Colour, AFI Lead Pollstar New Tours
Of the five new tours to chart on Pollstar’s Global Concert Pulse this week, City And Colour is the highest-grossing, with an average gross of $53,954 per show based on 12 box office reports. That put the Rob Zifarelli (Paradigm)-booked band at No. 88 for the week.
Scott Legato / Getty Images – City and Colour
Scott Legato / Getty Images – City and Colour
Recent City And Colour reports submitted to Pollstar has him selling out, or getting very close to selling out, venues including Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay in San Diego, (1,398 tickets, $54,522 gross), Mishawaka Amphitheatre in Bellvue, Colo., (1,000 tickets, $36,000), and College Street Music hall in New Haven, Conn., (1,544, $50,681). They also moved 2,403 tickets at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston, grossing $79,934, according to Pollstar’s box office data, as well as 2,718 tickets at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, good for a gross of $102,986.
Zifarelli told Pollstar that Dallas Green, the name behind City And Colour, initially set out to do 25 boutique amphitheatre dates, but they couldn’t find the right package. Green, the “hardest working man in rock” according to Zifarelli, told his agent he wanted to just get to work, which ended up meaning more than 100 dates total in 2017, including 30-plus shows in Canada alone. Zifarelli said he could even have done more in many markets, but let’s give the guy a break: “He’s done” for the year, Zif says. Green is reportedly back home in Toronto ready to watch the Raptors play basketball.
Close behind at No. 91 was the AFI / Circa Survive tour, which wrapped in August. The tour grossed an average $50,218 per night, with 14 Pollstar box office reports. Despite a higher ticket price than City and Colour ($42.72 to $36.54), City and Colour’s average tickets sold puts him ahead, with 1,476 sold per show to AFI’s 1,175 average. Highlights include sellouts at Roseland Theatre in Portland (1,335 tickets, $46,058 gross) and Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas (2,350 tickets, $94,528).
Also new this week on the chart is Toad The Wet Sprocket ($31,760 average gross, 619 tickets sold, rank No. 98). The alternative rock band has 12 U.S. upcoming dates on the books for 2017, including six shows in Florida Oct. 21-27. Average ticket price is $51.26.
Country artists Cody Johnson and Aaron Watson are No. 99 and No. 100 for the week. Johnson averages $30,790 gross per show and 1,378 tickets, to Watson’s $30,669 and 1,145. Average ticket prices for those two are $22.34 and $26.77, respectively. Johnson has seven dates on the books for 2017, mostly clubs in the South and Midwest including the
Watson has 17 upcoming dates announced, including fairs, five dates at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in December, and the 2018 Stagecoach festival in Indio.
The Global Concert Pulse ranks each artist by its average boxoffice gross per city worldwide and is based on data reported within the last three months. All figures in U.S. dollars.