Chart Scene: Pentatonix Lands On The Charts With New Christmas Tour

Pentatonix joins the lineup on both LIVE75 and the Artist Power Index during the final week of the a cappella group’s 2024 holiday trek, “Hallelujah! It’s a Christmas Tour.” Booked in U.S. cities, the tour began on Nov. 14 with 25 concerts planned at arenas through Dec. 22.

The opening night performance was held at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, with 6,181 fans in attendance. It was the group’s 12^th concert at the venue since first performing there on Nov. 12, 2016, according to the box-office archives. From that first performance through the most recent one, they have sold a total of 73,400 tickets and grossed more than $5.3 million. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, they appeared for two shows on back-to-back nights, with the best-attended engagement of the three occurring in 2019. That year they also played a single show in June, but their holiday concerts on Dec. 7-8 moved 13,394 tickets.

Since the Mohegan Sun opener, box-office totals have been reported from two more venues on the Christmas tour including a sold-out Nov. 21 performance at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, with 6,790 attendees and a $566,113 gross. Then, they sold out Madison Square Garden in New York City on Nov. 26, performing for 12,731 fans and grossing $891,187.

The group also has a history at both of those venues as well, having appeared at EagleBank Arena three times before this year. At all four shows, they sold a total of 26,250 tickets and grossed $1.98 million. They played Madison Square Garden one previous time on June 6, 2019, and welcomed 10,866 fans, grossing $466,606.

The “Hallelujah! It’s a Christmas Tour” earns Pentatonix the No. 18 ranking on LIVE75 based on a ticket average of 8,567 from three concerts. The group is one of four touring artists to debut in the top 25. Then, on the Artist Power Index, they debut at No. 37 with the 16^th highest Live rank among all 50 artists on the chart. They are one of five concert headliners making their first appearance this week.

John Legend is ranked highest among those five debuts on the Artist Power Index, and he also enters the chart based on performances with his own holiday run. The “A John Legend Christmas” tour kicked off on Dec. 2 at Yaamava’ Theater at Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland, California with 10 more concerts planned through Dec. 21. The first six performances on the tour land in the eligibility period for the chart.

LIVE75 has a new top-ranked touring artist as Coldplay returns to the chart after sales figures were reported from the final seven 2024 shows on the “Music of the Spheres World Tour.” With 325,072 tickets sold at four shows in Sydney’s Accor Stadium and another 169,079 sold during three nights at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, the per-show ticket average for the band is 70,593 which earns the No. 1 position. Also, the gross average per show totals $8.16 million which scores the “Heavy Hitter” classification as the highest among the 75 ranked tours.

Sting earns the “Breakthrough” tag on LIVE75 as the touring artist ranked outside the top 25 with the best sellout percentage. He lands at No. 37 based on an average of 1,925 sold tickets per show at seven performances. He played two nights at San Francisco’s The Masonic, Nov. 6-7, and five at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, Nov. 12-17. With sellouts at all shows, his ticket count in the Bay Area was 4,642 and 8,837 in LA.

He was on the road in North America during the fall with his “Sting 3.0” tour, joined by Dominic Miller and Chris Maas, playing theaters between Sept. 17 and Nov. 17. With sales figures reported from 35 concerts, he grossed over $40.9 million from 200,922 sold tickets during the tour, produced by Live Nation.

Comedian John Crist has “Noise Maker” status on LIVE75 with the largest upward move on the chart. He jumps 12 positions to No. 39 with a 12-show ticket average of 1,638. His best attendance was 6,246 from three shows at McFarlin Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Nov. 23-24.