Madonna Tickets top the charts
Madonna tickets outsold all other competition for the week of May 26 – June 1, 2008, according to TicketNews’s exclusive weekly rankings. With a power score of 7.85, the Material Girl climbed from third place to become the overall top event for this week. Though Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet Tour will not kick off until August, tickets to see the Queen of Pop are already selling out across the country.
Other Top Events this week included the hit musical Wicked, up two positions to second place with a power score of 4.70; the Los Angeles Lakers, who leapt from eighteenth place to third place with a power score of 3.05; and the Boston Celtics, who climbed six positions to fourth place and finished with a 2.87 power score. American Idols Live! tickets slipped three places to end in fifth place with a power score of 2.58, and the New York Yankees climbed one spot to sixth place with a 2.39 power score. Other chart-toppers included Tina Turner, who fell all the way to seventh place from her first place finish last week and earned a power score of 2.31, and Jersey Boys, which earned a power score of 2.28 and climbed three places to eighth place this week.
Madonna‘s massive 15.20 power score guaranteed her a first place finish on the Top Concert Events chart for this week. The American Idols Live! tour managed to maintain a second place position with a power score of 5.00, and Tina Turner followed in third place with a 4.48 power score.
TicketNews Exclusive Rankings and Power Scores are based on ticket sales from the TicketNetwork Exchange, the world’s largest secondary market exchange. A Power Score illustrates a given event’s category-specific significance. Two factors are used to calculate a power score: total ticket sales from the given event and total ticket sales within the category. As such, power scores should only be used to compare events within a particular category.
From an article by Sarah Pyzynski from www.ticketnews.com
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