Chart Scene: Travis Scott Jumps To No. 1 On LIVE75

Travis Scott is the year’s first No. 1-ranked artist on LIVE75 after he consistently landed in the top 10 in the last five issues of 2023, including an appearance at No. 3 on the final chart of the year. His two-position move to the top comes on the strength of four arena performances and a stadium event during a November stretch through west coast cities on the “Utopia Tour Presents Circus Maximus,” his current headlining tour that began in mid-October and is slated to run into February.

He averaged 22,503 sold tickets per show, according to box-office totals reported from back-to-back concerts at Oakland Arena in California followed by single performances at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle and Portland’s Moda Center. Together, he moved over 62,000 tickets at the four shows.

Then, the ticket count from his sold-out concert at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles market was 49,735, his highest attendance on the tour. With his performance on Nov. 5, he was the 11th and final concert headliner to appear at the stadium last year, the first being Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks with their co-headlining event on March 10.

On the Artist Power Index, Scott is the only artist in the top 10 to repeat with the same ranking as their final appearance in 2023. The rapper remained at No. 4 on the first APX chart of the year after scoring the third-highest Live score of the week based on a string of December arena performances from his tour. Included were a sellout at New York’s Madison Square Garden with 17,703 fans in the house and a Boston event at TD Garden with 15,751 in attendance – both shows occurring just days before Christmas.

With an upward move of one position, Doja Cat makes her first appearance at No. 1 on the Artist Power Index, fueled by top-20 scores in the Live and Streaming categories, along with the fourth highest Airplay rank during the past week. This marks the L.A. rapper’s first appearance at No. 1 on the weekly chart. She is only the fourth female performer ever to score the top APX ranking since the chart debuted almost two years ago. She follows Katy Perry and Dua Lipa who both topped the chart in 2022 and Taylor Swift who appeared at No. 1 throughout much of 2023.

The Christian music tour starring TobyMac and MercyMe earns the “Hot Shot” classification as the highest ranked debut on LIVE75, landing at No. 10 based on a 12-show ticket average of 10,035. Announced last April, the fall trek featuring the co-headliners along with Zach Williams was produced by Awakening Events and launched on Nov. 2 at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The opener drew a sellout crowd of 13,027 which was the second-largest ticket total recorded during the tour. Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, logged the top attendance with 13,054 sold seats for the tour’s sold-out finale on Nov. 19. Altogether from 12 shows booked during the two-and-a-half week run, the tour grossed $7.06 million from a total of 120,422 tickets.

On the Artist Power Index, Maroon 5 has the highest debut of the week, entering the chart at No. 8 based largely on a single performance at Daily’s Place Amphitheater in Jacksonville, Florida, on Dec. 28. It was the band’s only U.S. date in 2023 aside from their Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM. However, the group did play arenas in Europe last summer.