Chart Scene: Drake’s ‘It’s All A Blur Tour’ Earns Chart Debut

With the first box office results reported from Drake’s “It’s All a Blur” trek with 21 Savage, the rapper sees movement on both LIVE75 and the Artist Power Index based on ticket sales at two U.S. venues. Two July performances at TD Garden in Boston and two at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena produced a ticket average of 16,174 per show to earn “Hot Shot” status as the highest-ranked debut at No. 6. And on APX, he has the seventh-highest Live score of the week which bumps him up the chart five positions to No. 3 overall.

The tour launched with a two-show engagement at Chicago’s United Center on July 5-6, the first stop on a North American trek that is set to continue through Oct. 9 with a final stop planned for Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. It supports the album Her Loss, a collaboration between both artists that dropped on Nov. 4, 2022.

Drake last toured in Canadian and U.S. cities five years ago when he was on the road with the “Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour,” an arena trek with Georgia hip-hop group Migos that grossed $103.1 million. The tour featured 54 headlining performances in 25 venues with a total of 877,241 tickets sold. Among the highlights were seven New York City concerts offered to fans – four at Madison Square Garden and three at Barclays Center. The Los Angeles market also had seven performances on the schedule with three hosted by Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena) and four by the (now Kia) Forum.

Drake’s five-position jump on the Artist Power Index marks the most movement among the Top 10, although all 10 artists repeat as chart toppers for a second consecutive week. Taylor Swift (No. 1), The Weeknd (No. 2), Beyoncé (No. 6), Maroon 5 (No. 9) and Peso Pluma (No. 10) each hold the same ranking as in the previous issue. Ed Sheeran, Post Malone and Morgan Wallen all move just one slot, while Harry Styles sees a two-position change in the rankings.

On LIVE75, Luke Combs returns to the top, taking the highest ranking for the first time since holding No. 1 for five consecutive weeks beginning with the May 15 issue. This week, he scores a sold-ticket average of 55,066 per show from seven performances at stadiums in the St. Louis, Tampa, Charlotte and Boston markets during the homestretch of his world tour’s North American leg.

The highest gross average on LIVE75 belongs to Morgan Wallen who racked up a box office haul of $105.3 million from 12 concerts eligible to qualify for this week’s chart tallies. He averages $8,775,607 per show to hold the “Heavy Hitter” tag for a second week in a row. His “One Night At a Time” world tour is one of four stadium treks to top the chart in gross averages.

Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” world tour has the second-highest average with $6.64 million earned per concert based on seven recent performances, while Ed Sheeran’s “Mathematics” trek follows with an average of $6.08 million from eight shows. Then, Combs’ average gross of $5.67 million this week is fourth-highest among the stadium headliners.

LIVE75’s “Breakthrough” tour belongs to pop singer Ava Max who earns that classification for a second week with the most sellouts reported for an artist ranked outside the Top 25. The 29-year-old Wisconsin native packed the house at eight concerts during “On Tour (Finally),” her first trek as a headliner. Sold-out club dates in Houston, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver and Minneapolis produced a per-show ticket average of 1,209 to take the 51st position on the chart.

Max began the tour, supporting her second studio album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, in Europe in mid-April with shows booked through May 22. Among them was a sold-out show at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, which drew 1,970 attendees along with a sellout in Glasgow, Scotland, and a headcount of 1,000 at SWG3’s TV Studio.

The “Noise Maker” on LIVE75 is veteran singer/pianist Tori Amos who moves up the chart 10 positions, the most of any artist in the rankings, based on sales from four performances. She has a 1,999-ticket average from shows in Florida, Tennessee and New Jersey.