Music: [u2tour] *U2 360 Takes Billboard's Top Tour of 2011

U2 360 Takes Billboard's Top Tour of 2011
Posted: December 12, 2011
By: m2 / @mattmcgee

To the surprise of absolutely no one, U2 360 was named the Top Tour of 2011 in Billboard magazine's year-end review. During Billboard's reporting year, which runs from November 2010 to November 2011, U2 360 played 44 shows, sold 2,887,972 tickets and grossed $293,281,487 -- a little more than $100 million better than Bon Jovi's second-place total.

You probably know by now that U2 360 became the highest-grossing tour of all-time shortly before it ended in July, 2011. Billboard has a feature recapping that accomplishment and also looking at some of the other successful tours from the past year.

http://www.billboard.com/features/the-year-in-touring-u2-s-mighty-roar-1005644162.story

Matt McGee, @U2 Founder/Editor
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