By: Sarah Pittman
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Drive-Through Donations:Volunteers from Rhino Staging & Musically Fed give out boxes of food to crew members in need. The economic toll of the pandemic has brought about devastating unemployment and food insecurity. And no other industry may be hit as hard as live, with COVID restrictions banning in-person events still in place nine months after the pandemic began leaving more than 12 million live event workers out of work. Despite the hardships they’re facing, countless individuals and companies within the music business have stepped up to help give back and take care of their own.
By: Andy Gensler
2020 will forever have a huge, indelible asterisk beside it. It will serve as a stark reminder that the most challenging year our industry has ever endured was an anomaly, an aberration, a pox on our businesses, one that deviated widely from all norms and can’t end fast enough.
Congratulations to Sir Elton John, whose phenomenal “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” crowned
Pollstar’s Year-End Top 100 Worldwide Tours with $87.1 million grossed from Nov. 30 to March 7. His multi-year trek, which was No. 2 on 2019’s tally with a $212 million gross, is shaping up into something special and will further burnish Sir Elton’s incredible legacy as it continues into 2023. And kudos, too, to the rest of the chart’s Top 10, rounded out by Celine Dion, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, U2, Queen + Adam Lambert, Post Malone, Eagles, Jonas Brothers, Dead & Company and Andrea Bocelli – but for one thing: 2020 .