![]() The band’s first original LP since 2001, the album hit #5 on the Billboard Top 200. The brief run served as a preamble for the band’s upcoming 15th studio album, Music From Another Dimension, which came out near the end of the year in November. Aerosmith mounted a summer tour with support from Cheap Trick in 2012, The Global Warming Tour. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200, and the supporting tour raked in almost $50 million. ![]() In 2012, the band released their first new LP in 14 years, A Different Kind of Truth. Van Halen reunited with frontman David Lee Roth in 2007, and they toured on ’07 and ’08. This year also saw the comebacks of two classic hard rock acts – Van Halen and Aerosmith. ![]() Both albums, Metallica’s Death Magnetic and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ I’m With You, were both produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Rick Rubin. In addition to being inducted in into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, RHCP mounted a monster 77-show run, with which they hauled in almost $58 million. It was a banner year for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who were still touring off their 2011 release, I’m With You, which debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. While the band did not tour as extensively in 2012, with the help of several major festival appearances (including their very own Orion Music + More Festival), they hauled in $86 million. Metallica have been touring relentlessly since 2008 off their Grammy Award-winning album Death Magnetic. Two rock icons who are now solo – Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) – both ranked in the Top 15. Six hard rock/metal acts – Metallica, Van Halen, Nickelback, Scorpions, and Aerosmith – all grossed over $30 million in 2012. ![]() Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band‘s Wrecking Ball Tour topped the rockers, grossing just over $210 million and ranking #2 overall. Rock acts had a strong year, nabbing 14 of the Top 50 slots. Each year, Pollstar releases their annual rankings of the top-grossing touring shows/acts of the year. Tour poster and dates are listed below.The numbers are in, and the numbers don’t lie. These dates are June 4th at Denver, Colorado and October 7th in Quebec City, Québec. Update (2/27): Roger Waters has added additional dates to the Us + Them Fall Tour. This concert also included artists such as Metallica and Willie Nelson. This old material will include songs created in the past during his time in Pink Floyd, while the new material is what he’s been working on through his solo career.ĭuring the summer, Roger Waters had performed at Neil Young’s 30th annual Bridge School Benefit Concert. Before this tour announcement, Roger headlined at the Desert Trip festival and used the set as a attack to Donald Trump.Īccording to NME, the press releases had said that Rogers had said that he will perform the material “probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme”. The tour will begin in Kansas City, Missouri and end in Vancouver, Canada. The tour called “Us + Them”, which is a song from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. ![]()
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