{"id":29148,"date":"2024-03-29T00:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2s-sphere-residency-reigns-over-billboard-tour-charts-for-the-month-of-february\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:06:59","slug":"u2s-sphere-residency-reigns-over-billboard-tour-charts-for-the-month-of-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2s-sphere-residency-reigns-over-billboard-tour-charts-for-the-month-of-february\/","title":{"rendered":"U2\u2019s Sphere residency reigns over &#8216;Billboard&#8217; tour charts for the month of February"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-28\/M_U2AchtungSphere_120423.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy of Live Nation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2<\/strong>&#8216;s successful Las Vegas residency, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> has landed them on top of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/u2-final-sphere-shows-february-2024-boxscore-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billboard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> Top Tours\u00a0chart for the month of February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Irish rockers brought in $56.5 million from 166,000 tickets sold to put the Sphere show on top for the first time. Previous months of the residency landed\u00a0at #2 on the chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2 played a total of 10 Sphere shows during the month of February, before wrapping the residency for good the following month with two shows on March 1 and 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thanks to the success of the February concerts, U2 is also at #1 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Top Boxscores list, with the Sphere becoming the top-grossing venue for the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2 launched their sphere residency on September 29, playing a total of 40 shows. They were the first band to play the state-of-the-art venue,\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Phish\u00a0<\/strong>set to follow with\u00a0four shows booked from April 18 to April 21. <strong>Dead\u00a0&amp; Company <\/strong>will then take over,\u00a0playing 24 shows between May 16 and July 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Live Nation U2&#8216;s successful Las Vegas residency, U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere, has landed them on top of the Billboard Top Tours\u00a0chart for the month of February. The Irish rockers brought in $56.5 million from 166,000 tickets sold to put the Sphere show on top for<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/u2s-sphere-residency-reigns-over-billboard-tour-charts-for-the-month-of-february\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}