Usher Joins Artist Power Index With ‘Past Present Future’ Tour Debut

Usher debuts at No. 22 on the Artist Power Index following the launch of his “Past Present Future” tour at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Aug. 20-21. The two-show engagement kicked off a string of 60 arena concerts planned in North America this year, including six shows at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. He will appear there for three nights in October and three more in early December to wrap the tour’s opening leg through the U.S. and Canada. Looking ahead, Usher will head to Europe next spring with 20 more shows booked on his current tour including 10 performances at The O2 in London.

His most recent events reported to Pollstar were 12 shows with his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM late in 2023. From Nov. 3 through Dec. 2 last year, he grossed over $19.3 million from 60,038 sold tickets at the 6,400-seat concert venue.

Four more headliners debut on the Artist Power Index including Twenty One Pilots (No. 30) following the launch of “The Clancy World Tour,” supporting the duo’s latest album released in May. With dates booked in arenas and stadiums in North America, Oceania and Europe through May of next year, the trek began with a two-night engagement at Ball Arena in Denver, Aug. 15-16.

Pollstar cover artist Carín León also scores an APX debut based on concerts at Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Aug. 10-11. His two-show ticket count at the arena was 27,456 with a gross of $1.58 million. The Mexican singer will next bring his “Boca Chueca” 23-show headlining tour to the U.S. and Canada beginning with a concert Aug. 29 at the Denver-area outdoor venue, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. He will also be on stage both weekends at the upcoming Austin City Limits Music Festival in October.

Then, Sam Smith hits the chart at No. 38 after their performance at Grönan Live 2024, held at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden on Aug. 21, while Myke Towers debuts on the chart at No. 43 following his performance at Movistar Arena in Bogotá, Colombia on Aug. 9.

LIVE75 features a change at No. 1 this week as Latin star Karol G reclaims the top position after last appearing on the chart in the July 29 issue. She heads up the current slate of touring artists with a ticket average of 54,985 per show from four sold-out performances. Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, Spain, hosted the artist July 20-23 and moved 219,943 tickets during the run. Together, her concerts at the stadium grossed $23.6 million.

The Madrid shows marked the end of her “Mañana Será Bonito Tour” that launched on Aug. 10 last summer. During the yearlong run, she grossed over $312 million worldwide from 2.34 million tickets sold at 64 shows.

The “Hot Shot” classification on LIVE75 goes to Foo Fighters with the highest ranking on the chart for a debuting headliner. The band enters the lineup at No. 8 based on sales from 10 performances at eight venues on the “Everything Or Nothing at All Tour” that began a string of U.S. stadium dates at New York’s Citi Field on July 17 and 19. Box-office results from all 10 concerts show a total of 301,846 sold tickets and a gross totaling $42.4 million. The New York City ballpark recorded the best gross and attendance totals among the venues with 69,936 tickets sold and a two-show gross of $9.59 million.

‘Also on LIVE75, Tate McRae has the “Breakthrough” tour of the week with the best sellout percentage among artists ranked higher than No. 25. With 13 sellouts, she averaged 7,131 sold tickets per show.