{"id":1942,"date":"2008-12-29T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.ticketcenter.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2008-12-29T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:11:25","slug":"madonnas-sticky-sweet-tour-the-highest-grossing-tour-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/madonnas-sticky-sweet-tour-the-highest-grossing-tour-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna&#8217;s Sticky &#038; Sweet tour &#8211; the highest grossing tour of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the concert trade magazine <em>Pollstar<\/em>, <strong>Madonna&#8217;s Sticky &amp; Sweet<\/strong> tour made more than $280 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing tour ever by a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p>The Material Girl&#8217;s tour also ended up being this year&#8217;s highest grossing concert in North America, with ticket sales exceeding $105 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year&#8217;s Top 10 Highest-Grossing Tours in the US were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Madonna ($105 million)<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/celine_dion_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Celine Dion<\/a> ($94 million)<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/the_eagles_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">The Eagles<\/a> ($73.4 million)<\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/kenny_chesney_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Kenny Chesney<\/a> ($72.2 million)<\/p>\n<p>5. Bon Jovi ($70.4 million)<\/p>\n<p>6. Bruce Springsteen &amp; the E Street Band ($69.3 million)<\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/neil_diamond_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Neil Diamond<\/a> ($59.8 million)<\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/rascal_flatts_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Rascal Flatts<\/a> ($55.8 million)<\/p>\n<p>9. The Police ($48 million)<\/p>\n<p>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/tina_turner_tickets.html\" target=\"_self\">Tina Turner<\/a> ($47.7 million)<\/p>\n<p>[Source: Pollstar.com]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the concert trade magazine Pollstar, Madonna&#8217;s Sticky &amp; Sweet tour made more than $280 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing tour ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[562],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","tag-madonna"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}