Australia Rocks: Where We Sit On Live Music Top Earners List For 2018

Melbourne topping the list


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The stats are in and Australia rocks with Pollstar releasing live music stats of the top earners for 2018.

Melbourne continues to hold its title of ‘Rock City’ reigning in the results.

Melbourne has three clubs in the Top 100, with the infamous Corner Hotel coming in at #17, Northcote Social Club at #82 and the newly renovated Forum at #95, with the historic Myer Music Bowl sitting at #26 in the top 50 auditoriums and Rod Laver Arena at #54 in the Top arenas, with Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena at #11!

Out of the top 100 earning gigs for the gig, 10 were on Australian soil with Ed Sheeran’s Melbourne gig #2 on the list and the Foo Fighters Sydney gig at #72 and the Melbourne show #83. (Read the Foo Fighters live review here).

The Melbourne based promoter Frontier Touring sits at #6 of the top promoters with Aussie’s Chugg, Bluefest Touring and TED Danity all sitting in the Top 100.

Melbourne’s Vance Joy is the only Aussie to make the Top 100 tour.

Watch Vance Joy play LIVE on Kennedy Molloy:

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 To view to full results list click here

Well done all of you music lovers, you really do rock.

Cassie Walker

19 July 2018

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