Tina Turner has ended her 44-year live performance
career on a high note, selling $80m worth of concert tickets in the US and
Canada during 2000.
According to figures compiled by trade publication Pollstar, the
61-year-old sold $80.2m (£53.8m) of concert tickets, beating pop
heart-throbs 'N Sync, who took $76.4m (£51.2m) and Britney Spears, who
took $40.5m (£27.1m).
Turner's tour ended earlier this month, after playing 95 shows in
88 cities - as well as European dates in the summer.
She had announced in June that she was retiring from live performances
so she could go out "at the top".
Rock act the Dave Matthews Band took $68.2m (£45.7m), making them the
third top-selling act, while glam rockers Kiss proved their enduring
popularity by selling $62.7m (£42.1m) of tickets for their latest farewell
tour.
Husband and wife country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill completed
the top five, grossing $48.8m (£32.7m) for performances in North America.
The figures also show that 'N Sync sold more tickets than anyone else,
performing to 1.65 million fans - although that figure was 150,000 down on
last year.
But Kiss were the hardest-working band, playing 128
shows in 120 cites. Parodist Weird Al Yankovic played 150 dates in 141
cities, grossing $5.7m (£3.82m).
Barbra Streisand earned the most for the least work - her four farewell
shows in New York and Los Angeles grossed $27m (£18.1m), putting her at
number 14 on this year's list.
The list highlights the year's biggest flops - Diana Ross's Supremes
reunion tour.
The jaunt - billed as the Diana Ross and the Supremes' Return To Love
tour - featured Ross and two singers who had never appeared alongside her
in the group before.
It was cancelled in July after 12 out of 30 shows, but still took $5.6m
(£3.7m).
Pollstar editor-in-chief Gary Bongiovanni said that while that tour was
"a complete disaster from the very beginning", other disappointing tours
made up for their shortfalls with high ticket prices.
