Chart Scene: Meghan Trainor Debuts On Artist Power Index Following ‘Timeless Tour’ Launch

Meghan Trainor makes her debut on the Artist Power Index after kicking off “The Timeless Tour,” her fourth concert trek as a headliner and first in eight years. The tour supports her most recent studio album released through Epic Records earlier this summer.

She performed her first show on the tour on Sept. 1 at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, supported by L.A.-based rapper Paul Russell. Another casino date followed at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa on Sept. 2, but most of the shows on the upcoming schedule will be staged at outdoor amphitheaters in multiple North American markets. Among them are Nashville, Atlanta, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Detroit, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Francisco.

Arena dates are also planned, including a Sept. 25 performance at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, marking her first concert there as a solo headliner. She has played the venue before, though, appearing in both 2014 and 2018 as part of the annual “Z100 Jingle Ball” holiday concert held each December. The pop star will remain on the road in the U.S. and Canada through Oct. 19 and play her finale in Southern California at Inglewood’s Kia Forum.

Her last tour in 2016 was “The Untouchable Tour” which ran for three months in North America and was booked in amphitheaters, arenas and theaters as well as a handful of outdoor fair grandstands. With 29 shows at 27 venues reported from the trek, the tour logged 173,220 sold tickets and grossed over $7.4 million.

While Trainor is the only performer to appear on the Artist Power Index for the first time this week, four more artists return to the chart after previously earning a ranking during the most recent quarter of the year. J Balvin tops that list, ranked No. 33 following the launch of his “Que Bueno Volver a Verte” tour’s four-city trek through Australia and New Zealand on Sept. 4. Following at No. 34, Nicki Minaj also returned to the road on the same day with a show at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. She is set to play the final 22 North American arena dates on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” that will wrap on Oct. 11.

Also, Jason Derulo is back on APX at No. 42 after performing a post-match show on Aug. 31 at Chicago’s Soldier Field following the Major League Soccer contest between Chicago Fire FC and Inter Miami CF. Then, ranked 49th, Christian Nodal returns to the lineup behind his three concerts, Aug. 23-25, at San Juan’s Coliseo de Puerto Rico, produced by Cárdenas Marketing Network.

On LIVE75, Bruno Mars continues his stand at No. 1 for a second consecutive week based on his three concerts in Mexico City to reopen the recently renovated and renamed Estadio GNP Seguros, formerly Foro Sol. From performances on Aug. 8, 10 and 11, the multiple Grammy Award winner racked up a total of 175,842 sold tickets and an $18.4 million gross.

While recently completing the latest seven-show run of his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM on Sept. 1, Mars will next head to Asia for a string of stadium shows in Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. Those dates will be followed by another stadium trek through multiple cities in Brazil in October and November.

The top-ranked debut on LIVE75 belongs to Foo Fighters based on a per-show ticket average of 27,616 from six concerts on the band’s summer stadium tour during July and August. While recently reported box-office figures from the tour show that a total of 301,846 tickets were sold at 10 concerts between July 19 and Aug. 13, only six of those performances qualify for the chart’s eligibility timeframe.

Among them was the tour’s final two-show engagement at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, Aug. 9 and 11, with 42,614 fans in attendance. At earlier July events, 35,761 tickets were sold at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, while Target Field in Minneapolis sold 38,603. Also, San Diego’s Petco Park had a 36,417-ticket total, Aug. 7, while the one amphitheater in the mix, Toyota Pavilion at Concord in the San Francisco Bay Area, welcomed 12,305 fans, Aug. 13.