This Week’s Top Tours: European Ticket Sales Earn Gracie Abrams Top Live75 Debut

With the first box-office results reported from the European leg of Gracie Abrams’ “The Secret of Us Tour,” the singer-songwriter makes her debut appearance on LIVE75 at No. 2. Ticket sales from concerts at arenas in three cities total 47,833 for a per-show average of 15,944 to earn the second ranking on the chart. The three shows produced a combined gross of $3.2 million.

The European leg began in Madrid on Feb. 8, but her first reported show was the second stop of the tour in Lisbon, Portugal. She performed there at MEO Arena for a crowd of 17,433 on Feb. 11. Then, later in the month, on Feb. 24, she played a sold-out show in Zürich, Switzerland, for 13,500 fans at Hallenstadion.

Originally, the Zürich performance was planned for The Hall, a 5,000-capacity venue in the suburb of Dübendorf but moved to the arena due to high ticket demand. The same scenario happened the following night in Milan, Italy, when a performance planned for the 3,000-capacity Alcatraz was moved to the 15,800-seat Unipol Forum.

Then, the third show reported from Abrams’ tour was the second of her six March performances in U.K. arenas. She played Co-op Live in Manchester on the 7th with a crowd of 16,900 in attendance.

Following treks through Asia and Oceania on her world tour, Abrams will return to Europe in June and July for a string of festival appearances along with a handful of arena dates that were postponed due to illness. Then, a final stretch of North American arena and amphitheater shows will complete her tour in August.

Along with Abrams, LIVE75 also features a top five debut by Elevation Worship, the performance ensemble from Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The first five concerts on the group’s “Elevation Nights Tour” moved a total of 68,368 tickets for an average of 13,673 per show to rank third on the chart.

The tour opened with a performance at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 25 with 11,715 tickets sold, followed the next evening by a concert at BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a crowd of 11,319. Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena was next on the schedule, selling 14,735 tickets on Feb. 28, but the largest crowd was recorded on March 1 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena with 16,584 sold seats. Then, Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena welcomed the singers on March 2 and recorded 14,015 in ticket sales.

Billie Eilish continues to impact both LIVE75 and the Artist Power Index based on performances during the Australian leg of her “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour” during February and March. Ranked No. 1 on both charts, she moves up one position on LIVE75 to take the top ranking after debuting at No. 2 one week earlier.

The box office report from her four-night engagement at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney showed a total of 79,314 tickets sold and a gross of $9.68 million. The average of 19,828 tickets per show and the gross average of $2.42 million are both the highest of any headliner on the 75-position chart.

On the Artist Power Index, Eilish has now held the No. 1 ranking for four consecutive weeks while on the road Down Under. Along with her four-night stint in Sydney, she also played four shows in Brisbane and Melbourne. Her engagement at Brisbane Entertainment Centre ran from Feb. 18 through 22, while Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena hosted the tour from March 4 through 8.

Singer/rapper Feid has the top debut on the Artist Power Index, ranked No. 19 following the launch of his “Europe Fastest Tour” on March 3. The Medellín, Colombia native’s 13-city trek through 10 countries will continue through March 31, wrapping with a performance in London at Eventim Apollo. The European tour will include one two-show engagement, March 26-27, at Fabrique in Milan, the first of two venues booked in Italy. On the following night, he has a show planned at Atlantico in Rome. Feid will also appear in two cities in both Germany and Portugal during the tour.