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Family Values '99 Earns More Than $10 Million; Live Album, Home Video Due |
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The box office figures are in, and it's official. The 1999 Family Values Tour was even more popular than last year's Korn-led inaugural edition, and it will spawn another live album in early 2000. According to the trade publication
"Amusement Business," this year's Family Values Tour, which concluded
on November 1 in Dallas, was an overwhelming success, taking in more
than $10.6 million, up 63 percent from last year's reported gross of
$6.5 million.
Some
of the increase is due to the larger venues played on this year's outing,
as Family Values '99 averaged a per-show gross of $393,000 with an estimated
11,700 fans in attendance for 27 shows. In addition to Limp Bizkit,
this year's tour also featured Filter, Method Man, Redman, Run-DMC,
Primus, Staind, Ja Rule, Mobb Deep, and The Crystal Method.
Last year's Family Values Tour,
which also played 27 dates, grossed an average of $240,000 per show,
with an average audience right around 9,000.
Like the '98 tour,the 1999 Family
Values roadshow will also produce a live album and home video, which
Interscope Records confirmed to MTV News would be issued simultaneously
in the first quarter of next year.
-- David Basham |
