Madonna Is Your Tour Champion

Madonna: This, surprisingly, is an almost-teenager's mother. But her Sticky & Sweet Tour hasn't lost a step, ticket-wise. Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images

 

by Linda Holmes

The results are in from Pollstar magazine, and the highest-grossing concert tour of 2008 was Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour, which made more than $105 million. She's followed in the top ten by Celine Dion, the Eagles, Kenny Chesney, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Diamond, Rascal Flatts, the Police, and Tina Turner.

It's like my entire high-school class time-traveled 20 years into the future and dominated the year in ticket sales, except that the only thing we had to listen to in the time machine was contemporary country radio (you know how that happens in parts of, like, Wisconsin), so we emerged liking everything we liked back then, plus Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts.

3:04 PM ET | 12-30-2008 | permalink

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