LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) U2 is No. 1 when it comes to touring. The band had the highest-grossing tour both in North America and worldwide in 2011.
Bono, the Edge and company grossed $156 million in North America on the strength of 1.7 million tickets sold, according to Pollstar, which covers the concert industry. They grossed $231.9 million worldwide off 2.39 million tickets.
Rounding out the top five highest-grossing touring acts in North America were Taylor Swift ($97.7 million),wholesale Burberry bags, Kenny Chesney ($84.6 million), Lady Gaga ($63.7 million) and Bon Jovi ($57.1 million).
As for the worldwide top five, U2 were followed by the reunited Take That ($224 million), Bon Jovi ($148.8 million), Swift ($104.2 million) and Roger Waters ($103.6 million). Tickets on U2’s 360 Degrees tour sold for an average of $97.15 worldwide and $91.67 in North America.
The year’s top 25 biggest tours grossed a combined $2.1 billion worldwide, which is roughly the same as in 2010. In North America, there was a 4 percent dip among the top 25, which grossed $1.19 billion.
Still, the entire concert industry had a 15 percent increase in ticket sales compared with 2010, despite 20 percent fewer reported shows, according to Billboard.
U2’s success in 2011 was bolstered by the rescheduling of postponed concert dates from 2010 due to a back injury frontman Bono suffered that year.
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As a fashionable mow from chapter 1 of the couple’s E! special shows, Kardashian, 30, is having distress warming up to her husband’s bathroom hygiene habits.
Getting prepared for bed in their shared lavatory, Kardashian fumes while Humphries, 26, doesn’t brush his teeth apt her liking.
Humphries brushes his wife’s tirade off, but things obtain even extra tense when they brain to bed and the basket ball star invites his dogs to slumber in their bed.
“They’re no granted in my bed — that’s silk right there,” she snipes.
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“Can I differentiate you what variant of my pet peeves is? Someone that brushes their teeth so hard that they make the whole mirror entire [soapy],” she tells him.
Married for a month-and-a-half, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries have learned the hard path that cohabitation involves a whole lot of give-and-take.
Domestic bliss? Not very.
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