(andPOP) - Tours ranging from the rock legends The Police to Justin Timberlake, the man who brought back sexy, raked in hundreds of millions of dollars this year.
Billboard puts The Police's reunion tour as the most successful of the year, ChartAttack.com reports. The British band reunited to sell more than 1.8 million tickets at various venues around the world and gross $212 million U.S.
But it was still a down year in terms of concert revenues. While Genesis came in at second with $129 million and Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex LoveShow" tour was a close third with $126.8 million, no tour could compare with last years numbers put up by The Rolling Stones, U2, Madonna, and Barbra Streisand.
Other than the top three, no other tour this year broke the $100 million mark. Included in the top ten are country superstars Kenny Chesney and legend Rod Stewart, both grossing over $70 million. Cirque Du Soleil's Delirium brought int $59.4 million, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with $52.3 million, respectively, and Christina Aguilera and Rascal Flatts each took in just over $40 million.
According to ChartAttack.com, North American concert attendance dropped by 19.2 per cent to 51 million tickets sold. Overall revenues also dropped to $2.6 billion, down 10.2 per cent.
