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Jonas Brothers onstage during their Jonas Brothers: The Remember This Tour on Sept. 16, 2021.
Tammie Arroyo via Mega AgencyBillboard has recently recapped a series of 2021 tours that made their millions in 2019, with dates that went on sale before COVID and then were postponed to this summer and fall. Here, we see the Jonas Brothers back on the road with one of the first true post-pandemic stage shows.
The JoBros announced the Remember This Tour in May during a post-vaccine and pre-delta-variant sweet spot, just as music fans were considering a return to large, public, in-person gatherings. Playing amphitheaters in 40 cities across the U.S. between Aug. 20 and Oct. 27, Joe, Kevin and Nick brought in $42.5 million and sold 529,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.
The tour’s inarguable highlight -- in terms of gross and paid attendance -- was the group’s Oct. 1 play at Boston’s Fenway Park, grossing $2.6 million and selling 31,400 tickets. The date calls back to the Jonases' first-ever Boxscore report: a Sept. 20, 2006 show at Boston's Axis venue. Very much not a stadium, the sellable capacity at the club was 650, but the show only sold 236 tickets and grossed $2,800. Over the band’s 15-year touring career, they’ve grown their selling power in Boston 133 times over, and by elevating their ticket price beyond 2006’s $12 general admission price, they've boosted their earnings power 932 times.
The Boston baseball park has also been home to post-COVID home runs by Guns N’ Roses, Billy Joel, the Hella Mega Tour and Zac Brown Band, all within a one-week window (Aug. 3-8), packing in a relatively full concert season into an abridged timeframe as venues slowly reopened late in the summer.
Beyond the Boston show, the Remember This Tour hit highlights at the Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., with 20,000 tickets sold and at the closing date in L.A., with just over $2 million earned at the Hollywood Bowl.
Overall, the Remember This Tour averaged $1.01 million and 12,600 tickets per show. It’s the band’s third tour to pace more than $1 million per concert, following World Tour 2009 and 2019’s Happiness Begins Tour. And it is their fifth run with a five-figure sales number, following the 2008-09 Burnin’ Up Tour, World Tour 2009, World Tour 2010 and Happiness Begins Tour.
The newest reports send the Jonas Brothers past two significant Boxscore milestones: Their career totals have crossed the $300 million ($318.8 million) and 4 million tickets (4.39 million) thresholds. The Remember This Tour was promoted by Live Nation and supported by Kelsea Ballerini. The band is represented by UTA.
Fontaines D.C. have teamed up with Rosalía for their new collaboration, Where Is Gone?.
The song features on the Irish rock band's forthcoming album, Dopamine Chamber, which arrives on Friday (16.10.26). For guitarist Carlos O’Connell, working with the Spanish superstar is particularly special because of his own Spanish roots.
He explained: “I’ve admired Rosalía ever since her debut album, which I thought was absolutely beautiful.
“What excited me most was the way she continued to preserve Spain's musical traditions, something that felt spiritually connected to what we've been trying to achieve with Irish music. Having roots in both countries, it's been really special to witness. "She's an artist who has continued to amaze me at every point in her career.”
Frontman Grian Chatten has also described the collaboration with Rosalía as one of the most memorable achievements of his career.
He revealed that he felt "humbled" when she agreed to lend her voice to the band's album.
Speaking to NPR, Grian said: “I've always felt there's something almost like a single big idea that I'm personally trying to communicate to the world before I get old and die, if that makes sense. There's one thing I think I'll spend my life trying to express. I have a feeling she has a similar outlook. … I mean, she's an amazing arranger, composer and lyricist. It means so much that she wanted to sing on something we'd put together. It's definitely one of the highlights of my career.”
Rosalía's links to Irish rock music extend beyond Fontaines D.C. She also offered inspiration and helped develop the Spanish lyrics for U2's The Mirror Maker (Rosalía), a track from their forthcoming album, Carnaval de Luz.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, she spoke about frontman Bono, saying: “I don't know him personally, but he sent me a text explaining that he was working on a new project and had written a song called The Mirror Maker."
Rosalía joked that Bono had invented a few words of his own.
She recalled telling him: “I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I told him he could create his own language if he wanted to.”
She described the opportunity to collaborate with the 66 year old music veteran as a real privilege.
She added: “Bono is a legend.
“It's amazing.”
Bono recently revealed that he was worried about seeming like a stalker when he reached out to Rosalía to ask whether he could name the song after her.
