BON JOVI, VAN HALEN, RUSH, IRON MAIDEN ....

BON JOVI, VAN HALEN, RUSH, IRON MAIDEN Make Pollstar's Top 100 Tours Chart For First Half Of 2008

According to Pollstar, BON JOVI holds down the first position on Pollstar's Top 100 Tours chart for the first six months of North America concert action in 2008 with an an average ticket price of $87.98 resulting in a total gross of $56.3 million for 39 shows. By the time that tour ends in mid-July, the band will have completed its biggest tour ever in North America. As successful as the band has been here, the Bon Jovi juggernaut is even bigger overseas. On a worldwide basis the act has sold nearly 1.7 million tickets in just the first six months of this year. No one else comes close to that number.

Other hard rock/metal notables on Pollstar's Top 100 Tours for the first half of 2008 include:

#3 - VAN HALEN
#12 - RUSH
#29 - IRON MAIDEN
#43 - OZZY OSBOURNE
#61 - DEF LEPPARD
#65 - ROBERT PLANT and ALISON KRAUSS
#66 - STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

View the entire list here.