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BON JOVI NAMED BILLBOARD’S TOP TOURING ACT OF 2010
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Second Time in Three Years that the Iconic Band Scores #1 Spot
Back on The Road in 2011
The year-end results are in and Bon Jovi has been named the #1 worldwide touring act of 2010, according to Billboard.
The iconic band has scored the top-grossing spot for the second time in just three years, an achievement that only Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead have earned.
Previously, the band’s “Lost Highway Tour” was named the #1 tour of 2008 by Billboard. Nearing three decades of an incredible career, Bon Jovi show no signs of slowing down. Their recent Greatest Hits collection debuted atop charts around the world and the band will continue their series of live dates well into 2011.
Bon Jovi’s “The Circle Tour,” which began in February 2010, sold out stadiums and arenas around the world to the tune of 1.5 million fans in attendance and grossed more than $146 million. The U.S., Canadian, and UK legs of the tour were promoted by AEG Live and included four sold-out shows to inaugurate the New Meadowlands Stadium as well as multiple night stands in cities across the U.S., Canada and the UK, where the band played a 12-night sold-out residency at London’s 02 Arena.
As Jon Bon Jovi explained to Billboard “we’ve had five albums in this decade, we’ve toured every one, and people came back every time. It says something for the band and the production and the performance that people feel they’re getting their money’s worth, especially in this economic downturn…History speaks for itself. Numbers don’t lie.”
Bon Jovi’s top-grossing world tour dates have been promoted by AEG Live in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.
Additional promoters around the world include Water Brothers (Rock n’ Rio Madrid, Peru, Costa Rica), Bob Reiche (Royal Beach Festival Holland), Gérard Drouot Productions (France), Live Nation (select U.S. markets), Time for Fun (Brazil, Argentina, Chile), and Ocesa (Mexico).
The band is currently closing out 2010 with dates in Japan (Udo Artists), New Zealand and Australia (Dainty Consolidated Entertainment) and will return to the road in February 2011 with dates in the U.S., Canada and throughout Europe.
Tickets are on sale now and additional concerts in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Pittsburgh, and Dublin have already been added, due to popular demand (full itinerary below).
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits (Island Def Jam Music Group) recently debuted at #1 around the world and on the Billboard European Chart, with the band’s three-decade-spanning retrospective charting higher and selling more copies in its first week than their 1994 Cross Road release, which has sold 21 million copies to date.
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits debuted in the Top 5 in over 20 markets around the world—including the U.S., where it is the #1 charting rock release—as well as the UK, Germany, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, New Zealand, Argentina and Korea. The album entered the charts at #1 in Japan, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal, and Mexico.
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits – The Ultimate Collection includes the brand new song and latest hit single, “What Do You Got?,” which is also one of the four brand new tracks —“What Do You Got?,” “The More Things Change,” “No Apologies,” and “This Is Love, This Is Life”— that were written and recorded specifically for inclusion in this compilation. Globally, the Grammy® Award-winning band has sold more than 120 million albums, and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 35 million fans.
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Bon Jovi 2011 Tour Itinerary
February 9 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
February 11 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
February 12 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
February 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
February 15 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
February 18 Montreal, QB Bell
February 19 Montreal, QB Bell
February 21 Raleigh, NC RBC
February 24 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden
February 25 New York City, NY Madison Square Garden
February 27 Washington, DC Verizon
March 1 Boston, MA TD
March 2 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo
March 4 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
March 5 New York City, NY Madison Square
March 8 Chicago, IL United Center
March 9 Chicago, IL United
March 17 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
March 19 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
March 22 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena
March 25 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
March 26 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
June 8 Zagreb, Croatia Maximir Stadium
June 10 Dresden, Germany Ostragehege
June 12 Munich, Germany Olympic Stadium
June 15 Oslo, Norway Ullevaal Stadium
June 17 Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium
June 19 Horsens, Denmark Horsens Stadium
June 22 Edinburgh, Scotland Murrayfield Stadium
June 24 Manchester, UK Old Trafford Cricket Ground
June 25 London, UK Hard Rock Calling
June 27 Bristol, UK Ashton Gate Stadium
June 29 Dublin, Ireland RDS Arena
June 30 Dublin, Ireland RDS Arena
July 8 Istanbul, Turkey Kazlicesme Festival Site
July 10 Bucharest, Romania Piata Constitutiei
July 13 Dusseldorf, Germany Esprit Arena
July 14 Zurich, Switzerland Letzigrund Stadium
July 16 Mannheim, Germany Maimarktgelande
July 17 Udine, Italy Stadio Frilui
July 20 Athens, Greece Olympic Stadium
July 22 Vienna, Austria Ernst Happel Stadium
July 24 Bruges, Belgium Zeebrugge Beach
July 27 Barcelona, Spain Estadio Olympico
July 29 San Sebastian, Spain Estadio Anoeta
July 31 Lisbon, Portugal Parque De Belavista
