Topping the "Hot Tours" Charts

Veteran rock band Bon Jovi tops the Hot Tours chart for the third time this year with box office totals reported from six dates of The Circle Tour. Adding the $9.7 million in ticket sales from these six performances, the tour's overall gross passes the $50 million mark since its mid-February kick-off.

Among the cities represented this week, Tampa produced the largest crowd with 18,298 in attendance at St. Pete Times Forum for an April 17 sold-out event ($1.7 million gross). Atlanta generated the most revenue, though, with an April 15 sellout at Philips Arena. Box office receipts totaled $1,815,719 with 16,510 fans in the house.

Artist/Event: BON JOVI
Total Gross: $9,797,109
Show Dates: April 13-22
Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts)

1. BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla. (1/1)
2. Philips Arena, Atlanta (1/1)
3. St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa (1/1)
4. BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Fla. (1/1)
5. Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (1/1)
6. Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte (1/1)

Total Attendance (Capacity): 102,507 (102,507)

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OK.

So.

Time to put on my green visor here.

These six shows made the Jovi Machine 9.8 million dollars.  That's a lot of dollars.

And over a hundred thousand tickets (I'm sure some concert-goers attended more than one of those listed dates, so I said 'tickets', not 'people').  My calculator may be Jovi-biased, but that works out to a little under $100 per ticket average price.

I have YET to go to a show this tour that cost me less than $100 per ticket.

With all the hoopla / slamming / complaining, whatever you want to call it, about ticket prices ( and I have to admit, some of the show prices I've seen are bonkers *coughO2cough* ) this makes the prices look fairly reasonable, at least for this six-show run that was used for the Billboard article.

That being said, I didn't go to any of these shows.

At the risk of opening up a can of worms with a ticket price debate, were decent (non-FC) tickets priced in the right-around-a-hundred-dollars range?  I exclude FC seats because I hear they like to charge more for even the non-VIP-keep-your-chair-though-why-would-you-want-it-and-how-the-hell-do-you-get-it-thru-airport-security package FC seats.  (Membership does have its privileges, but it also has a price.)

~ Hath