Tours of Booty: Concerts Hit an All-time High Note
Led by the road trips of
the Rolling Stones ($138.5 million in gross receipts),
Barbra Streisand ($92.5 mil) and the country combo of
Tim McGraw and
Faith Hill ($88.8 mil), North American concert-ticket revenue hit an all-time high of $3.6
billion in 2006, besting the year prior by 16 percent. Noting that the average ticket price ($61.45) was only up eight percent from '05, the editor in chief of trade mag
Pollstar tells the AP, "That's a good sign for business" - especially when you factor in all the
K-Fed refunds.
