Chart Scene: Pearl Jam’s ‘Dark Matter Tour’ Earns Top Debut On LIVE75

Pearl Jam enters the lineup on LIVE75 as the concert headliner with the highest-ranked debut of the week. Ticket sales from four shows at three venues on the recent U.S. leg of the band’s “Dark Matter World Tour” earn the No. 2 ranking on the chart based on a sold-ticket average of 32,983 per show. Together, all four of the concerts logged a total of 131,933 sold tickets for a combined box-office haul topping $19.9 million.

Included among the four shows are two of the tour’s three stadium dates booked stateside during August and September, beginning with an Aug. 22 performance at Washington-Grizzly Stadium at the University of Montana in Missoula. The sold-out concert kicked off the group’s brief 11-show trek through the U.S. and drew 25,326 fans, grossing $3.9 million. Then, the sole amphitheater date on the tour followed on Aug. 26 at Ruoff Music Center in the Indianapolis market with 24,697 tickets sold for a gross of $2.3 million. Finally, the band’s two-night run at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Aug. 29 and 31, moved a total of 81,910 tickets over both nights and produced a gross of $13.7 million.

September performances on the “Dark Matter” trek included a two-show stint in New York City at Madison Square Garden followed by two concerts at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center and a performance at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. The last stadium on the American tour was Boston’s Fenway Park which hosted Pearl Jam on Sep. 15 and 17.

Bruno Mars hangs on to the No. 1 ranking on LIVE75 for a fourth consecutive week based on his three sold-out concerts in Mexico City at Estado GNP Seguros on Aug. 8, 10 and 11. Those show dates land in the chart’s eligibility period for a final week, again earning the singer the highest ranking. However, for the first time during the past four weeks, he scores “Heavy Hitter” status as the touring artist with the highest gross average per show among the 75 concert headliners on the chart. His $6.13 million average per night in Mexico City is the only gross average topping $6 million. Likewise, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, ranked No. 3, have the only tour with a gross average in the $5 million range, while Pearl Jam is the only headliner to top the $4 million mark.

On the Artist Power Index, two artists move up the chart into the top 10 in this issue beginning with Post Malone who jumps from No. 13 to No. 5. This follows the launch of the current tour in support of F-1 Trillion, his first country album released Aug. 16 through Republic and Mercury Records. His shows are booked primarily at outdoor amphitheaters beginning with the tour opener at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah, on Sep. 8-9. A total of 26 shows are scheduled through the tour finale in Austin, Texas, at the end of October including stadium dates at Fenway Park in Boston; Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania; Credit One Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina; and Nashville’s Nissan Stadium.

Moving up three positions to No. 9 on APX is Justin Timberlake based on 13 concerts at seven arenas, the final shows on the European leg of his ongoing “The Forget Tomorrow World Tour” that began on July 26 in Kraków, Poland, and ended in Lyon, France, on Sep. 7. The trek through Europe followed an opening North American leg of the tour that launched on April 29 and ran through July 9.

Among the final seven European venues on the tour, Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam sold the most tickets with 45,890 attendees for three shows between Aug. 15 and 19. The three sold out concerts grossed $5.3 million. Four more venues hosted Timberlake’s tour for two nights with Cologne, Germany’s Lanxess Arena selling 33,086 tickets, the most among them. Also, with two-show engagements were Munich’s Olympic Hall, Royal Arena in Copenhagen and LDLC Arena in Lyon, France, the final venue booked on the European jaunt.

LIVE75’s “Breakthrough” classification, acknowledging the headliner with the most sellouts among artists ranked outside the top 25, goes to Los Temerarios with the 26th ranking. The Mexican grupero band, featuring brothers Adolfo and Gustavo Ángel, moves up from No. 30 based on a 7,616-ticket average from five sellouts at two arenas. EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted four sold-out shows by the duo in early September, selling 26,253 tickets, while an earlier sellout performance in Phoenix at Footprint Center moved 11,828 tickets. The brothers, currently on the road in North America with their farewell tour, plan to retire when the tour wraps in December.