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Family Values Tour Tops 1998 Sales Figures
This year's Limp Bizkit -led incarnation of the Family Values Tour was reportedly a bigger box-office success than 1998's outing, which was headlined by tour co-founders KORN.
With reports in from 27 of the 28 Family Values Tour shows, Amusement Business reports in this week's issue that the tour grossed more than $10.6 million in ticket sales, or about $394,000 per show. The average attendance at each show was about 11,800. Last year, the tour grossed an average of $240,000 per show, and average attendance reportedly was 9,022.
The final 1999 Family Values Tour show, a rescheduled performance at Reunion Arena in Dallas on Nov. 1, wasn't included in the report.
That show, which was originally scheduled to take place the previous week, was postponed. An initial report by MTV News attributed the postponement to an undisclosed minor illness contracted by several members of the band. However, the Los Angeles Times reported that the show was pushed back because Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst had to complete work on the video for the new KORN single ''Falling Away From Me,'' which he directed.
KORN and their management company, The Firm, produce the Family Values Tour along with Metropolitan Entertainment Group. John Scher of Metropolitan told Amusement Business that the results of this year's tour were encouraging enough to lead organizers to begin planning for another Family Values Tour in 2000.
Among the artists who appeared on at least a portion of this year's recently concluded tour were Limp Bizkit, KORN (which played several shows unannounced), Primus, Method Man & Redman, Staind, Orgy, Filter, Mobb Deep, Run DMC and the Crystal Method.
Interscope Records has announced that it plans to release a live Family Values Tour album in early 2000.
