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Monday Business Links: Madonna U.S. Tour Grosses $92 Million, Average Ticket Price Down
Coolfer — • The U.S. leg of Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour had a gross of $91.5 million on sales of about 550,000 tickets. For those of you keeping score at home, that's an average ticket price of $166. By my math, the average ticket price on on the U.S. leg of her 2006 Confessions tour was $183. The total Sticky & Sweet tour is on pace to gross around $282 million. (Billboard) • Labels fret as Woolworths Entertainment UK, the distribution arm of Woolworths, has gone into adminstration. The company is said to be responsible for up to 30% of physical sales in the ...

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Ear Farm — ... Chromewaves, Largehearted Boy, Fluxblog, Said the Gramophone and others launch a new group blog called MBV And, Largehearted Boy also posted his own list of favorite albums from 2008 Microsoft launches an unsigned band site, cleverly titled MSN Unsigned Bishop Allen’s new album Grrr… will be out March 10th on Dead Oceans Rostam Batmanglij talks about Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album , now in the writing phase Madonna’s most recent tour is on pace to gross $282 million after already netting $91.5 million so far