This Week’s Top Tours: Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium Earn Top LIVE75 Debut After European Tour Launch

Announced almost one year ago, the long-awaited “Poisoned Ascendancy” European tour featuring co-headliners Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium launched on Jan. 26 with an opening run through five cities in the U.K. through Feb. 1. With boxoffice results reported from the six shows in those cities, along with the first mainland European date, a concert in Germany on Feb. 3, the bands have the highest ranking on LIVE75 among artists making their debut on the chart.

With a total of 69,340 tickets sold at Utilita Arena Cardiff with two shows booked, The OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Manchester’s Co-op Live, Utilita Arena Birmingham, The O2 in London and Düsseldorf’s Mitsubishi Electric Halle, the metal bands averaged 9,906 per show to grab the No. 6 ranking. Grosses from all seven performances totaled over $4.5 million for a per-show average of $644,939.

The tour celebrating the 20^th anniversary of Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy, both released in 2005, wrapped in Europe on Feb. 27, but it continues in North America beginning with a March 30 performance in Vancouver. The final concert on the trek will be held at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Red Hat Amphitheater, May 18.

Following at No. 7 on LIVE75 is Mary J. Blige who also makes her debut this week with a ticket average of 9,683 from three concerts on “The For My Fans Tour,” her 36-show trek through North American markets that began in late January and continues through April 19. Among the three, her best-attended performance was at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena with a sellout crowd of 11,743 on Feb. 3 and a gross totaling $1.45 million. The top grosser, though, was her Feb. 8 show in Tampa, Florida, with a $1.59 million take from 10,484 sold seats at Amalie Arena.

Luke Combs repeats at No. 1 with a six-show ticket average of 58,179 from three stadiums in Australian cities during his tour through New Zealand and Australia in January and February. After performing for two nights at Eden Park in Auckland to kick off the brief trek, his first stop in Australia came at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Jan. 24-25, with 94,461 tickets sold. Then, his Sydney engagement at Accor Stadium drew 138,146 fans, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, while his final shows at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium, Feb. 7-8, moved 116,468 tickets.

On the Artist Power Index, Billie Eilish also earns the No. 1 ranking for a second consecutive week based on her own recent concerts in Australia. She resumed her “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour” in Brisbane on Feb. 18, following the opening North American leg of the tour last fall. Her engagement at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, which spanned four nights through Feb. 22, contributed to her Live ranking on the chart, as did the first two shows of her four-night run at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena. She will wrap the three-city Aussie trek at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, March 4-8, and then resume the tour in Europe with arena dates booked from April through July.

One of the highest-ranked debuts on the Artist Power Index belongs to Tate McRae who lands on the chart in the top 15 on the strength of her outdoor performance in the parking lot at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on Feb. 20. She appeared there to celebrate the release of her latest album So Close to What the following day, with all proceeds from ticket sales for the event supporting Los Angeles fire relief efforts. The Canadian singer-songwriter is set to launch her upcoming “Miss Possessive Tour” through the Americas and Europe on March 18 in Mexico City.