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LIVE75: Foos Still No. 1, Luke Combs, James Taylor, Grupo Firme Enter Chart
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Grupo Firme, pictured July 30 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, where the group played seven shows and racked up $6.9 million in ticket revenue from 77,437 tickets.
Holding the No. 1 ranking for a second consecutive week are the Foo Fighters with a sold-ticket average of 18,826 from two of their sold-out concerts this summer.
The first, a June 20 performance at Madison Square Garden in New York, drew 15,371 fans, while a July 30 event at Milwaukee’s American Family Insurance Amphitheater recorded 22,281 in attendance. Grosses from both averaged $1,591,826 to earn HEAVY HITTER status for a second time.
Country star Luke Combs has the HOT SHOT tour of the week, scoring the highest average of sold tickets for a touring artist making their chart
debut. The Grand Ole Opry member ranks second based on a 14,050-ticket average from two shows at Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing
Arts Center in Canandaigua, N.Y. The concerts on Aug. 5-6 were an early stop on his rescheduled “What You See is What You Get” tour originally planned
for 2020.
Tijuana, Mexico’s Grupo Firme makes their first chart appearance on the strength of a seven-show engagement at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The band racked up a whopping $6.9 million in ticket revenue at the arena from 77,437 sold seats. The sold-out concert run kicked off on July 30 and ended Aug. 8. They averaged 11,062 tickets to debut at No. 3.