U2 Still the Hot Ticket, but Baseball Fans Ready for Opening Day

U2 Still the Hot Ticket, but Baseball Fans Ready for Opening Day

Red Sox, Yankees Fuel Baseball Ticket Sales According to TicketsNow Entertainment Index

CHICAGO, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-five years into the band's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career, U2 is still one of the biggest acts around as their "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" tour continues to generate tremendous sales, according to the TicketsNow Entertainment Index. TicketsNow.com, the world's largest and most secure online marketplace for secondary event tickets, saw U2 grab the top sales spot for the second consecutive month, with nearly one of every four music tickets sold on the site belonging to the Irish rock band.

Baseball also proved to be a big mover as arch rivals the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, along with perennial fan favorite the Chicago Cubs, were the top three sports tickets sold. Wicked, for the third month running, held on to its top spot for theater tickets, making it the sixth most popular event on the site overall.

Following are the category leaders for March:

How to Assemble a Blockbuster Tour: Top March Events Overall

1 U2 6 Wicked 2 Boston Red Sox 7 Jimmy Buffett 3 New York Yankees 8 Monty Python's Spamalot 4 Chicago Cubs 9 Houston Rodeo 5 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament 10 Miami Heat

Bases Loaded: Top March Sports Ticket Sales

1 Boston Red Sox 2 New York Yankees 3 Chicago Cubs 4 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament 5 Miami Heat

Rockers, Parrotheads & Cowboys: Top March Concert Ticket Sales

1 U2 2 Jimmy Buffett 3 Houston Rodeo 4 Elton John 5 Nine Inch Nails

Broadway Bound: Top March Theater Ticket Sales

1 Wicked 2 Monty Python's Spamalot 3 The Lion King 4 700 Sundays 5 Phantom of the Opera

About the TicketsNow Entertainment Index

The TicketsNow Entertainment Index tracks proprietary secondary ticket sales on a monthly basis to provide a snapshot of entertainment trends for sports, concerts, and theater events nationwide.

About TicketsNow.com

Established in 1999, TicketsNow.com is the world's largest and most secure marketplace for premium event seating and tickets. More than 90% of all professional ticket agencies that list, buy, and sell secondary event tickets online utilize software developed by TicketsNow-creating the most comprehensive database of secondary event tickets in the world. Named to the Inc. 500 index of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S., TicketsNow is the Official Premium Ticket Partner of USATODAY.com, a member of the Better Business Bureau, and a founding member of the NATB, which promotes the highest level of ethics in the secondary ticketing marketplace. For more information, visit http://www.ticketsnow.com/.

Contact: Matt Van Tuinen Alan Taylor Communications for TicketsNow.com 212.714.1280 mattv@alantaylor.com

Jennifer Swanson TicketsNow.com 815.444.4923 jswanson@TicketsNow.com

Source: TicketsNow.com

CONTACT: Matt Van Tuinen of Alan Taylor Communications for TicketsNow.com, +1-212-714-1280, mattv@alantaylor.com; or Jennifer Swanson of TicketsNow.com, +1-815-444-4923, swanson@TicketsNow.com

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