'Circus Tour' Ranked #4 Tour in America - #1 for Female and a Solo Entertainer

Check out the entire top 50 here:

Rank -- Total Gross* -- Artist
1 -- 123.0 -- U2
2 -- 94.5 -- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
3 -- 88.0 -- Elton John / Billy Joel
4 -- 82.5 -- Britney Spears
5 -- 77.9 -- AC/DC
6 -- 71.1 -- Kenny Chesney
7 -- 69.8 -- Jonas Brothers
8 -- 56.9 -- Dave Matthews Band
9 -- 54.5 -- Fleetwood Mac
10 --53.4 -- Metallica
11 -- 47.4 -- Nickelback
12 -- 46.2 -- "Walking With Dinosaurs"
13 -- 45.0 -- Miley Cyrus
14 -- 43.7 -- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
15 -- 42.8 -- Eagles
16 -- 42.7 -- Keith Urban
17 -- 42.6 -- Celine Dion
18 -- 42.2 -- Rascal Flatts
19 -- 40.8 -- Coldplay
20 -- 40.7 -- Paul McCartney
21 -- 37.2 -- Phish
22 -- 35.4 -- Brad Paisley
23 -- 34.6 -- Jeff Dunham
24 -- 33.9 -- No Doubt
25 -- 33.2 -- Cher
26 -- 32.1 -- Lil' Wayne
27 -- 30.5 -- KISS
28 -- 30.1 -- "American Idols Live"
29 -- 29.7 -- Toby Keith
30 -- 29.1 -- Bette Midler
31 -- 28.1 -- Dane Cook
32 -- 26.7 -- Blink-182
33 -- 26.4 -- The Dead
34 -- 26.4 -- Beyoncé
35 -- 26.0 -- Il Divo
36 -- 25.5 -- Taylor Swift
37 -- 24.8 -- Def Leppard
38 -- 24.2 -- Cirque du Soleil - "Saltimbanco"
39 -- 23.5 -- Mötley Crüe
40 -- 22.3 -- Depeche Mode
41 -- 22.0 -- George Strait
42 -- 21.9 -- Eric Clapton / Steve Winwood
43 -- 21.8 -- Kings Of Leon
44 -- 21.3 -- Leonard Cohen
45 -- 20.4 -- Bob Dylan
46 -- 19.7 -- "So You Think You Can Dance"
47 -- 18.8 -- Journey
48 -- 18.7 -- Jimmy Buffett
49 -- 18.5 -- Luis Miguel
50 -- 18.4 -- The Killers

* In US millions

Source: Pollstar

Britney’s #1 In North America

The following italicized article is from www.pollstar.com:

The legendary Pollstar Boxoffice Department has been crunching numbers, adding up ticket sales and figuring out final grosses to give you a glimpse of the overall concert picture for the first six months of 2009.

Britney Spears tops the North American tour scene. Brit’s 37 shows in 30 cities resulted in an average of 20,498 tickets sold per show at an average price of $99.29 for a total gross of $61.1 million.

North America’s #1 grosser – Britney – finished third worldwide – 48 shows in 33 cities at an average ticket price of $95.04 and grossing 74.6 million total for the first half of the year.

Source: Pollstar