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Celine's Boxscore Tallies Are Mind-Boggling

According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Celine Dion tops the Nov. 30-dated Hot Tours recap with US$33.2 million from the tour’s first 19 shows.

Celine's Boxscore Tallies Are Mind-Boggling

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According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Celine Dion tops the Nov. 30-dated Hot Tours recap with US$33.2 million from the tour’s first 19 shows. That includes $7M in four shows at Montreal’s Bell Centre where she sold out at 53,864 tickets.


These figures boost Dion’s career-total to US$1.115 billion and 8.8 million tickets sold, as reported to Billboard Boxscore.

The magazine reports that while she ranked No. 5 on Billboard’s overall Top Pop Artists of the ’90s, her touring total by the end of the decade had “only” hit $77.9 million. It was in the 2000s with her first Vegas residency and in the last ten years with her second and greater expansion into international touring that her live business soared.

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Her Courage tour supports the release of the album of the same title. It is her first album to top the US chart in 17 years since she debuted in the pole position with 2002’s A New Day Has Come.

Tour date ranking, ticket sales and dollar grosses available on the Billboard website here.

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Jennifer Brown, CEO of SOCAN (left) and ​Tobias Holzmüller, CEO of GEMA
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Jennifer Brown, CEO of SOCAN (left) and Tobias Holzmüller, CEO of GEMA

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SOCAN Joins GEMA's Live Music Royalty Network, One Arena

The Canadian music rights company is the first organization outside of Europe to join the network, whose goal is to provide more transparency regarding live music royalties.

SOCAN has joined GEMA's live royalty network, One Arena.

The Canadian music rights society has become the first non-European rights collection company to join the initiative, which is meant to provide transparency surrounding live music and concert royalties. One Arena's mission is to track concerts worldwide and provide information about licensing and royalty payments, giving a clearer picture of how performance royalties are calculated and distributed to musicians.

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