With the NFL’s regular season set to kick off this Thursday evening, football is making its way into TicketNews Top Events rankings, easing out musical acts that took over the list for much of the summer.
The Dallas Cowboys had the best finish of any NFL team this week finishing at No. 6. This will be their first full season under head coach Jason Garrett, and the team hopes to turn things around this year from last season’s dismal 6-10 finish. The Cowboys, Green Bay Packers and New York Jets all finished in the overall top ten of the Events Rankings and were three of the nine teams that landed on the Top Sports Events rankings for the week.
Selena Gomez displayed some star power this week, taking over the top spot in the overall Top Events rankings as well as in this week’s Top Concert rankings. The young singer is finishing up her U.S. tour in September before embarking on an 11-date tour across Canada on October 13.
Theater productions were still prominent in the rankings this week, with Wicked dropping to No. 2 and The Book of Mormon holding on to No. 3. “The Book of Mormon” held on to its first place finish in TicketNews’ Top Broadway rankings this past week, a position it has held for 23 consecutive weeks.
Even though she will not return to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace stage until late December, Celine Dion continues to reign supreme on the Las Vegas strip, once again taking No. 1 in TicketNews’ Top Vegas rankings. Dion is currently on a four month break from her Caesars Palace residency to spend the holidays with family. Elton John will temporarily replace Dion at the Colosseum starting on September 28.
Also coming up at the Colosseum, the grand prize winner of this season’s installment of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” will perform for three consecutive shows on the Colosseum stage. These shows, scheduled for the end of October, sold well enough this week to make it to the Vegas rankings at No. 9.
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