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Article: The New Kids' Top '90 Tour
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 2, 1991
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In 1989, the world's oldest rock band set a concert record by
selling $98 million in tickets for its "Steel Wheels" tours (and
that was just in the United States and Canada). According to
Pollstar, the concert industry journal, the Rolling Stones accounted
for nearly $1 in every $10 spent on tickets, and four times what the
surprising fifth-place finishers did.
Well, last year, the Stones worked overseas and the New Kids on
the Block moved to the top slot in Pollstar's year-end survey,
grossing $74.1 million from 152 shows in 122 cities. What Pollstar
calls "the lean teen money machines" accounted for the
second-highest-grossing tour ever and set a record for tickets sold,
3,291,987 ...