Chart Scene: Dave Matthews Band Scores Top Debut On LIVE75

Dave Matthews Band has the highest ranked chart debut on LIVE75 based on ticket sales for 12 concerts at eight outdoor amphitheaters on the group’s summer tour. A per-show ticket average of 16,811 earns the No. 13 ranking on the chart, making the band
one of three headliners in the top 25 to appear based solely on amphitheater shows. 

Country artists Tyler Childers and HARDY also rank with only shed dates.

Four of the venues booked the band on back-to-back nights, beginning with Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, that moved 46,148 tickets, June 28-29. Then, Broadview Stage at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, New York, sold 37,961 tickets for performances on July 5-6. Later in July, the BankNH Pavilion in Gilford, New Hampshire, and Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, both hosted two-night runs, selling 16,239 and 35,558 tickets, respectively. The four amphitheaters that staged only one performance during the chart’s eligibility period were Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York; PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey; Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. A total of 65,829 tickets were sold at those four concerts.

Dave Matthews Band’s summer tour kicked off May 22 at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa with shows planned through Labor Day weekend. It is set to wrap with the group’s traditional multiple-show finale at the Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington. Box-office results have been reported for 26 concerts so far, beginning with the Tampa opener through the final two performances in July staged at the Camden venue. Grosses from those performances top $32.2 million from 380,559 sold tickets.

On the Artist Power Index, the top debut on the chart belongs to OneRepublic at No. 24 following the band’s engagement at Ford Amphitheater, the new outdoor concert venue in their hometown of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The pop/rock group played three consecutive nights, Aug. 9-11, as the 8,000-seat venue’s inaugural concert attraction. Upcoming shows at the venue will feature a host of concert headliners including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Barenaked Ladies and ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd among others. OneRepublic’s performances for the remainder of August and September will be on festival stages around the world, but they will play their next U.S. headlining date on Oct. 3 at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California.

Taylor Swift, No. 1 on the Artist Power Index, and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, No. 1 on both LIVE75 and the Global Concert Pulse, each hold on to their top chart positions for a second week. That applies to many of the top 10 acts on all three charts as well, with just a handful of exceptions. One is Bruno Mars, who joins the top 10 on APX based on his three-show concert run at the newly renovated Estadio GNP Seguros, formerly Foro Sol, in Mexico City, Aug. 8-11. Then, on the Global Concert Pulse, P!NK debuts at No. 3 with a gross average of $6.5 million per show, determined by reported ticket revenue at 17 performances during the most recent three-month chart eligibility period.