Chart Scene: Elevation Worship Debuts In Top 10 On LIVE75 With Winter Tour

Christian music collective Elevation Worship, from Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, debuts at No. 6 on LIVE75 based on ticket sales reported from the group’s eight-show winter tour with church pastor Steven Furtick. The “Elevation Nights ‘24” tour kicked off on Feb. 20 at Hershey, Pennsylvania’s GIANT Center and continued through the end of February, wrapping at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. A sold-ticket average of 12,599 per show from the final six dates on the tour, included in this week’s LIVE75 eligibility timeframe, earns the group “Hot Shot” status as the highest-ranked concert headliner making a debut appearance on the chart.

Promoted by Premier Productions, the tour’s largest crowd showed up for the finale in Philadelphia as 14,359 tickets were purchased for the event on Feb. 29. UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York had the second-largest attendance with a headcount of 13,998 on Feb. 27 and Boston’s TD Garden, third in the ticket count, welcomed 13,432 attendees on the 28th. All three performances were sellouts.

Elevation Worship’s box-office history in Pollstar stretches back to April 2016 and their participation in Premier’s “Outcry Tour,” a multiple-artist trek that featured Hillsong Worship, Kari Jobe, Jesus Culture and others. Since then, the group has 102 performances on record as headliner with overall grosses topping $32.4 million from 667,431 sold tickets and an average ticket price of $48.66.

Last year, Elevation Worship’s fall tour in October grossed $4.77 million across eight concerts with 90,314 sold seats. Yet, the recent winter tour’s ticket count reflected a 3.4% increase with a total of 93,399 tickets sold. Grosses from the eight arena concerts this year reached $5.57 million.

Next up for the worship music collective is the “Praise Party! Summer 2024” trek, currently set to kick off on July 23 at Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, Florida. The eight-show run is booked through Aug. 4 with a final event planned for Milwaukee’s BMO Pavilion.

On the Artist Power Index, Country singer-songwriter Sam Hunt has the highest debut at No. 44, entering the chart on the strength of recent performances during his “Outskirts Tour 2024” that launched on Feb. 22. Produced by Live Nation, the Georgia native’s 17-city trek began at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with arena shows booked through April 13.

The first of four debuting concert headliners on APX, Hunt is followed by REO Speedwagon at No. 46 based on five of the band’s recent arena dates with co-headliner Rick Springfield, while Tim McGraw makes his 2024 debut at No. 47 following the kickoff of his “Standing Room Only Tour” in Jacksonville, Florida on March 14. Then, Madison Beer enters the chart in the 48th position powered by a string of 18 shows performed in Europe on her “Spinnin Tour.” The pop singer will return to North America following the tour’s opening European leg with a debut show stateside scheduled at The Fillmore Minneapolis on April 24.

Country headliner Cody Johnson moves up five positions on LIVE75 to score a ranking in the top 10, earning “Noisemaker” status in the process with the largest upward move on the chart. His stand at No. 7 is fueled by four concerts beginning with a headlining performance at the “Florida Strawberry Festival” in Plant City, Florida on March 10. One of 17 ticketed concerts at this year’s event, his show drew a crowd of 9,819 fans on the final night of the festival.

Montreal-born comedian Sugar Sammy earns “Breakthrough” classification as the tour with the best sellout percentage from the most performances on LIVE75 for a third consecutive week and for the fourth time since the beginning of 2024. His appearance at No. 70 comes from an 18-show ticket average of 782 per performance at Montreal’s Salle Pierre-Mercure and Salle Jean-Paul-Tardif in Quebec City.