British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN this week landed at position No. 1 on Billboard.com 's "Hot Tours" list of top-grossing tours with $19 million in ticket sales from 14 performances in 13 cities on their summer tour of Europe. The shows were attended by a total of 259,298 fans, including a sellout crowd of 55,531 at a football stadium, Friends Arena, in the Stockholm suburb of Solna, Sweden. Also included was a sold-out concert on May 29 at Lisbon, Portugal's Pavilhão Atlântico.
IRON MAIDEN's August 3 show at London, England's O2 Arena (with a
capacity of up to 20,000, depending on the event) sold out in just 12
minutes, so a second show was added on Sunday, August 4. This will
definitely be the band's last U.K. show this year as soon after they
head off for a few selected USA shows before a massive trip around Latin
America, including headlining Rock In Rio and national stadiums in
Mexico, Chile and Argentina.
MAIDEN's 15th studio CD, 2010's "The
Final Frontier", featured 10 tracks that had an average running time of
seven minutes and 40 seconds, with the shortest song, "The Alchemist",
clocking in at four minutes and 29 seconds, and the longest, "When The
Wild Wind Blows", lasting ten minutes and 59 seconds.
"The Final
Frontier" sold 63,000 copies in the United States in its first week of
release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 4.
IRON
MAIDEN's previous album, 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death", opened
with 56,000 units to land at No. 9. This was a notable increase from the
40,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, 2003's "Dance of
Death" (which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart), and that
of "Brave New World", which moved 38,000 copies in June 2000 to land at
No. 39 on The Billboard 200 chart.
"The Final Frontier" was IRON
MAIDEN's fourth U.K. No. 1 album. The band previously topped the chart
in 1982 with "The Number of the Beast", in 1988 with "Seventh Son of a
Seventh Son" and in 1992 with "Fear of the Dark".
