Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys Shine On Artist Power Index With Las Vegas Debuts

Both Lady Gaga and Backstreet Boys enter the lineup on the Artist Power Index following recent opening night performances in Las Vegas concert venues. She kicked off “The Mayhem Ball,” her seventh solo headlining tour, with a three-show run at T-Mobile Arena, while the group debuted their 21-show concert residency, “Into the Millennium,” at Sphere.

Lady Gaga last appeared on the APX chart while playing a string of promotional concerts for the tour in April and May, but she takes the No. 20 ranking this week based solely on the July 16 opening night performance, which lands in the chart’s eligibility timeframe. Following the end of her Vegas run on the 19th, she will continue her arena tour with multiple shows planned in seven more North American cities through mid-September, the first being San Francisco and a three-night stint at Chase Center. Then a European leg of the tour will begin Sept. 29 at The O2 in London, followed by concerts in nine more arenas, most of them also with multiple shows on the schedule.

Backstreet Boys’ Las Vegas residency is the seventh by a major concert headliner at Sphere since the venue opened in the fall of 2023. The first performance was on July 11, followed by two more shows during the opening weekend of the run. Box office totals reported from those first three sold-out concerts earn the band the No. 38 ranking on the chart, based on a combined gross of $8.5 million from 49,798 sold tickets. Their residency continues with three shows each week through the second-to-last weekend in August.

The Artist Power Index also features two more headliners making their debut appearance, including Maroon 5 at No. 32 based on a one-off performance at En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York. The group performed an outdoor concert there on July 11 prior to the 2025 Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, the annual PGA tournament held at the golf club since 2007.

Then, hitting the Artist Power Index at No. 49 is Colombian artist Feid, who returns to the chart for the first time since May 2. He scores his ranking after performing on July 13 at Ushuaïa Beach Hotel in Ibiza, Spain. While in Europe, he is also set to appear on the second night of “Lollapalooza Paris,” held July 18-20.

While the Artist Power Index features the top eight performers in the same position as the previous week’s chart, LIVE75 highlights repeat appearances by the top six. The No. 1 artists on both charts maintain their hold on the top ranking with The Weeknd on APX and Beyoncé on LIVE75, but on the latter, Dave Matthews Band has the top ranking among the artists making their first appearance in the lineup this year.

The group debuts in the top 10 on LIVE75, taking the No. 9 ranking after ticket sales were reported from three performances on the band’s 2025 summer tour. The first concert was the third stop on the trek, a May 31 performance at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. With attendance logged at 15,000 for the sold-out event, the gross peaked at $1.59 million. Then, sales figures from a pair of shows, June 20-21, at Credit One Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina, were reported during the past week, showing a total of 24,291 tickets sold for a boxoffice haul of $2.8 million.

While Dave Matthews Band is LIVE75’s “Hot Shot” touring artist with the top-ranked debut, Beyoncé maintains her hold as the chart’s “Heavy Hitter” with the highest gross average for the tenth consecutive week. Her massive average of $12.6 million per show is based on box office results from 13 performances on her “Cowboy Carter World Tour,” now in its homestretch.

The chart’s “Noisemaker” is Jim Gaffigan, who jumped 27 positions this week to take the No. 27 ranking with a ticket average of 3,297 from three shows in June at Foxwoods Resort Casino’s 4,000-seat Premier Theater in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The comedian’s 54th ranking on last week’s chart was due to a 1,121-ticket average from four May performances at the 1,480-seat Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.

Finally, the “Breakthrough” tag on LIVE75 goes to JMSN at No. 72 with a seven-sellout ticket average of 240 per show. He played during June for capacity crowds at Zebulon in Los Angeles, selling 785 tickets, and Public Records in Brooklyn, New York, with 900 tickets sold.