Concert Pulse: Justin Timberlake’s “The Man Of The Woods Tour” No. 1

Justin Timberlake jumps to the No. 1 spot on the Pollstar Global Concert Pulse, as the “Man Of The Woods” tour gets underway with sellouts reported to Pollstar already.

Those shows include two at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, which sold 32,142 tickets and grossed more than $3.5 million March 13 and March 15, as well as Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., March 18 (16,724, $2.8 million), Madison Square Garden Arena March 22 (17,288 $2.86 million), and March 25 at Prudential Center in New Jersey, which sold out 15,462 tickets and grossed just shy of $2.4 million on the Live Nation tour.

Timberlake is grossing an average $3.3 million per show report, and is apparently seeing no resistance on a ticket price averaging $143 per seat. Justin Timberlake made a splash at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime show at the new U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which is often used as a springboard to announce a major tour.

Pollstar spoke with Ricky Kirshner, who’s executive produced the Big Game’s halftime show since 2007, who said ahead of the event, “Justin’s the perfect act for this because we honestly could just put the camera on him for 12 minutes and no one would care”, Kirshner told Pollstar. “But you know, it’s the Super Bowl so we feel like we have to make it a little bigger”.

The Big Game also came just days after Timberlake released his new Man Of The Woods LP. The former *Nsync heartthrob has dates clear into January 2019, with a lengthy European leg (nine dates in Germany alone) sandwiched between two North America arena runs. Joining on support are The Shadowboxers, which along with Justin Timberlake are represented by WME and Keith Sarkisian.

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