Chart Scene: Doja Cat Earns Top Debut On Artist Power Index With Euro Tour Launch

Doja Cat earns her first ranking on the Artist Power Index since resuming “The Scarlet Tour” this spring, beginning with a headlining appearance at Coachella in April and a string of other festival performances in North America and Europe. She played her first European arena at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on June 11. That performance along with her second U.K. show the following evening at Birmingham’s Resorts World Arena are both included in chart eligibility for this week’s APX ranking.

During the opening leg of the tour last fall, the rapper/singer averaged a gross of $1.69 million and 12,900 sold tickets per show at North American arenas. Her top gross, among the shows that were reported, was $2.07 million at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 29, 2023. The Live Nation-produced show drew a crowd of 14,199. Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena had the largest number of sold tickets, however, with a total of 14,668 purchased on Dec. 11. That concert logged a gross totaling $1.62 million.

“The Scarlet Tour,” supporting her fourth studio album released last September, is Doja Cat’s second headlining tour and her first booked in arenas. Her debut headlining effort in 2018-2019, the “Amala Tour,” was set in clubs and averaged about 400 in attendance per show, according to reported box-office figures.

Also debuting on APX are Bruno Mars and Coldplay, ranked Nos. 18 and 19, respectively. Mars returns to the chart after resuming his Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM on June 7, while Coldplay’s appearance follows the launch of the final stretch of European stadium shows this summer on the band’s ongoing world tour.

Earlier this year in February, Mars played five shows at the Las Vegas showroom, selling 25,701 tickets for a gross of $9.26 million. Since beginning his residency there at the end of 2016, he has grossed $114 million from a total of 381,962 sold tickets at 74 shows. Coldplay’s massive “Music of the Spheres” world tour has racked up $811 million overall since kicking off in March 2022. Worldwide ticket sales during the tour currently top 7.66 million.

Scoring the highest debut on LIVE75 is Pearl Jam, ranked No. 12 based on an average of 13,595 sold tickets per show on the band’s current global tour. It began with two shows, May 4 and 6, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver followed by a string of eight shows at U.S. arenas through the end of May. The total number of sold tickets at all 10 performances was 135,955 with a combined gross of $23.9 million. The final two shows at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, May 28 and 30, produced the top gross and ticket count with a $5.89 million haul from 29,423 hometown fans in attendance over both nights.

During June and July, Pearl Jam will take the tour to Europe for a series of headlining dates and festival appearances before returning stateside in August for stadium, shed and arena concerts booked through mid-September. Then, a final run of shows in New Zealand and Australia in November will complete the tour.

On LIVE75, Texas-based Red Dirt country band Treaty Oak Revival earns both the “Noise Maker” and “Breakthrough” classifications with the largest upward move on the chart in one week and the best sellout percentage among touring artists ranked outside the top 25. The group earns the No. 49 ranking, up 24 positions from their 73rd ranking on last week’s chart based on six reported concerts, all sellouts, with an average of 2,372 sold tickets per show.

Houston’s 713 Music Hall hosted the largest crowd with 5,165 tickets sold to see the band on May 31, while the next highest ticket total was 4,506 for a sold-out show on May 3 at Johnny’s Steaks & Bar-Be-Que in Salado, Texas. The other four shows were held at venues in Memphis and Knoxville, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina.