Tom Danehy: Singing the Praises of the One and Only Smokey Robinson (Tucson Weekly)
They kept going at it, mackin' and slobberin', with my hand all kinds of ways in the wrong place. I tried to determine if there was a rhythm to their writhing, maybe attuned to Smokey's crooning. But no. Every now and then, I would try to extricate my hand, but it would just make her moan a little bit louder and press up on the dude a little bit harder. By the time Smokey sang, "I'm just about at the end of my rope, but I can't stop trying. I can't give up hope," my hand was falling asleep. When he got to "'Cause I feel that one day I'll hold you near"...well, that ship had sailed. I finally got my hand out. The girl turned around and looked at me, but she and I never spoke about it. Ever.
Elle Hunt: "Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: 'It's a reminder that you're alive'" (The Guardian)
I catch myself asking Odell what she sees as the benefit or the outcome of doing nothing - is it increased creativity? Greater empathy, improved mental health? "I think it could lead to any of those things, but I am careful not to instrumentalise it," she says. "I am genuinely interested in nothing for the sake of nothing, rather than nothing for the sake of something. … Honestly, it will sound cheesy, but the impetus that is the most obvious for me is that it's a reminder that you're alive."
Helaine Olen: Republicans don't have a good argument against impeachment - because there isn't one (Washington Post)
The real facts do not back Trump up. Trump himself has admitted he froze military aidto Ukraine and then hopped on the phone and, er, suggested to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. And he released the rough transcript of his July call with Zelensky that confirms all of this. It's likely Trump thought he could swamp the call in the same blizzard of misinformation that's swallowed everything from the Mueller report to the subject of his never-released tax returns. After all, he promptly offered up competing reasons for stopping the military assistance, first claiming it was an effort to combat corruption, and then turning around and saying it was actually an effort to get European countries to step up to the plate.
SUSAN PEDERSEN: Is Our Food Culture Killing Us? (The Nation)
Wilson closes her book with some sensible, if fairly obvious, suggestions: Downsize your plates and glasses; don't drink anything but water; eat regular meals and avoid snacks; eat more vegetables and less meat; ignore food crazes. It would be a shame, though, if people read this book as simply a guide to healthy living, for Wilson's more profound point is that we need to stop treating eating as an individual "choice," as if it were just an "amusing leisure activity" rather than a "basic human need." Improving diets and health, she says rightly, will require action on many fronts, including much more aggressive public policy. This will not be easy.
The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" (title as filed for 1950 copyright) is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP), written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors. The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952, and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s, commercials were aired with the song sung by John Roseboro and Don Drysdale, whose singing careers, announcer Vin Scully said, were "destined to go absolutely nowhere."
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
"See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America's the greatest land of all"
Randall wrote:
Chevrolet
Alan J answered:
Chevrolet.
Dave said:
See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet. Composed in 1949, with a 1950 copyright by General Motors, Dina Shore first sang it in 1952. Dina Shore was the first female pop singer of the 1940's to top the charts without the backing of one of the Big Bands. Shore was also a frequent radio performer. Shore charted 80 pop songs from 1940-1957 and was on TV for years during the '50s and '60s, and had a talk show during the '70s. Dinah Shore was in the tabloids quite a bit in the '70s due to her 4 year romance with actor Burt Reynolds, who was 20 years younger.
Photo: Dinah with a ('54 or '55) Chevrolet Corvette show car that was equipped with the optional removable hardtop.
Stephen F responded:
See the USA in a Chevrolet
mj replied:
Families were supposed to
See the USA in a Chevrolet!
Cal in Vermont said:
It was to "See the USA in your Chevrolet". This was looong before you would see it in your German or Swedish or Japanese car. There is a real honest-to-god French person, a restaurantier, in Brandon, VT who drove a Citroën 2CV from Brandon to Colorado and back a few years ago. Took him a while, only a couple of necessary repairs. This was accomplished with the help of other 2CV aficianados across this great country of ours. My wife once drove a VW bus, a green one she called Herr Frosch, from the East Coast to the West Coast and back as one did in the day. When we cleaned out her late mother's house, we discovered a manila envelope stuffed full of repair receipts recounting the whole adventure. Now you just shove off to there and back with a few thousand miles remaining on the oil change. What a world...
Roy "Anyone but Trump" in Tyler, TX wrote:
Back in the '60s, Dinah Shore urged Amerians to "See the USA in your Chevrolet."
Needless to say, no one in my family won this contest, as we chose to see the USA in Fords.
Jon L answered:
Was it: See the USA in a Chevrolet?
zorch responded:
"See the USA in your Chevrolet." from Dinah Saur.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
"See the USA in Your Chevrolet" with your hand on Burt Reynolds' stick shift.
Kenn B said:
See the USA in your Chevrolet
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
"See the USA in your Chevrolet… America's the greatest land of all"
George M. answered:
Marty, if my memory serves me correctly, Dinah Shore was urging us to "See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet!"
Dave in Tucson replied:
Believe Dinah Shore exhorted us to "See the USA in your Chevrolet".
Wonder how she would have pitched a certain model that turned out to be "Unsafe at any Speed">
Michelle in AZ responded:
"See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet"
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
See the USA in your Chevrolet
Deborah wrote:
I'm going with "See the USA in your Chevrolet." I never watched her show but I sure remember that jingle.
Took my broken MacBook to my local tech store. The young lady who assisted me restarted it (which I have done over a dozen times since Monday morning) and voila! It's running just fine again. No idea what made the cursor freeze, but I don't care anymore. I'm happy to be back in business again.
Daniel in The City answered:
See the USA in your Chevrolet
Mac Mac replied:
See the USA in Your Chevrolet
Joe S responded:
See. The. USA. In your Chevrolet!
Ah, I remember it well. I watched Dinah Shore every week, in my youth. We didn't have Chevys in my family though we were Ford cars and Dodge trucks. Okay, a Chevy truck sneaked in now and again, but not often.
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• Some people know what they want. Carole King met fellow songwriter Graham Nash and asked, "So when are we going to write together?" He replied, "I'm not the guy." She then said, "Oh, fine. I'll be at your house at one o'clock." He asked, "What?" She replied, "I'll be at your house at one o'clock and we'll write." He said, "Didn't I just get through telling you?" She replied, "I don't care what you just said. I'm coming to your house at one o'clock. We can do this." She came to his house at one o'clock, and they wrote a good song together.
• Songwriter Steve Earle is not shy when it comes to expressing his opinions. Wearing his cowboy boots, he once stood on songwriter Bob Dylan's coffee table and proclaimed, "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world." He later met Mr. Van Zandt, writer of "If I Needed You," who told him, "That's a really nice quote, but I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and I don't think [what you did] is a really good idea."
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• On 12 June 1936, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first song, "Love and Kisses," which she made with the Chick Webb Orchestra. The record was in a jukebox at a nightclub, but Ella was not allowed in the nightclub because she was underage. She remembered, "So I had some fellow who was over 21 go in and put a nickel in while I stood outside and listened to my own voice coming out." The turning point in Ella's life came in 1934 on an amateur night at the Harlem Opera House in New York City. She and two friends drew straws to see who would perform on stage, and Ella drew the short straw. She had intended to dance, but performing immediately before her were two sisters who danced much better than she did, so instead of dancing, she sang "Judy," a song made famous by the Boswell Sisters. Ella was a hit with the audience and won $25. She called this "the hardest money I ever earned," but added, "Once up there [on stage], I felt the acceptance and love from the audience - I knew I wanted to sing before people the rest of my life." In her later years, Ella made a commercial for Memorex recording tapes. In the commercial, she hit a high note and broke a glass. Then a Memorex recording of Ella's high note was played, and it broke a glass. The commercial then asked, "Is it Ella, or is it Memorex?" A boy once attended one of Ella's concerts and afterward said, "I liked her singing all right, but she didn't break no glass."
• While doing research for The Drew Carey Show, Mr. Carey and his producer, Bruce Helford, stopped at a local pub in Lakewood, Ohio, where they heard some musicians play "Moon Over Parma," a song that one of them, Bob "Mad Dog" McGuire, had written. The song is about a man who gives his girlfriend a bouquet of radishes. At best, Mr. McGuire thought that the song would be popular locally, so he was surprised when Mr. Carey and Mr. Helford said that they wanted to use as it the theme song to The Drew Carey Show. He ended up getting $750 to $1,000 each time the song opened the show. Mr. McGuire says, "It's kind of like having another job but not having to go to work."
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• World-famous accompanist Gerald Moore detests background music, of which he writes, "I find it difficult to indulge in the process of thinking even at the best of times, but when this slime is being poured into my ears, thought or study or reading are quite impossible." He once asked an American stewardess to turn off the background music during a flight. She did, but remarked, "Not musical, eh?" Of course, as an in-demand international accompanist, Mr. Moore frequently traveled. He once undertook a sea voyage to Dublin, Ireland, from Holyhead, Wales. He boarded in the evening, drank two large whiskeys, and slept soundly. The next morning, he told a steward, "That is the way to cross the Irish Sea. I slept undisturbed the whole night, unaware of any tossing and pitching, rock 'n' roll." The steward replied, "No, sir, you wouldn't have felt much movement. You see, we haven't cast off yet. It's been too rough."
• According to Michael Sellers, the son of British comic Peter Sellers, Henry Mancini, the composer of "Moon River," liked to smoke weed, and he carried it with him when he traveled. Peter Sellers once asked him, "But what about Customs?" Mr. Mancini replied, "Who's going to bust the man who wrote 'Moon River'?"
Starting this past Monday, a couple of Chinese sites have been checking out what seems to be all the back pages - over 600 hits on Monday, 750 on Tuesday, 500 on Wednesday, and over 1000 on Thursday.
Heh - I figure they've got about another 4000 pages to go.
It occurs between 6am (pdt) and 3pm (pdt) - only.
Don't know what it means, but they got my attention.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a FRESH'Magnum PU', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jon Hamm and Pete Alonso.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/15/19) are Michael Douglas and Nicole Byer.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Joaquin Phoenix, Zoey Deutch, and Gary Vaynerchuk.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/19/19) are Glenn Howerton, Andrew Yang, Margaret Atwood, and Yesod Williams.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 9/19/19) is Chelsea Handler.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/25/19) are Joe Biden, Cobie Smulders, and James Blake.
The CW offers a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'The Big Stage', then a FRESH'Peaking', followed by another FRESH'Peaking'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', followed by a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Last Witch Hunter', followed by the movie 'Taken', then the movie 'Taken', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-Shapes and Colors
[7:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-Girl Power
[8:00AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-You're No Fun Any More
[8:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Full Frontal Nudity
[8:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 12-The Naked Ant
[8:45AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 20-Three of a Kind
[9:45AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 21-Field Trip
[10:45AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 22-Biogenesis
[11:45AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 1-The Sixth Extinction
[12:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 2-The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
[1:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 3-Hungry
[2:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 4-Millennium
[3:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 5-Rush
[4:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 6-The Goldberg Variation
[5:45PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 7-Orison
[6:45PM] THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
[9:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
[12:00AM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
[2:00AM] THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
[4:15AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 7-You're No Fun Any More
[4:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-Full Frontal Nudity
[4:45AM] DOCTOR WHO: LAST CHRISTMAS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection', followed by the movie 'The Hunger Games'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'South Park', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Rob Lowe'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'The Amazing Spider-Man'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', then a FRESH'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'In Search Of'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Big Momma's House
[8:30A] Planes, Trains and Automobiles
[10:30A] National Lampoon's Vacation
[12:45P] Tommy Boy
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Fez Gets the Girl
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Dine and Dash
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Radio Daze
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Donna's Panties
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Romantic Weekend
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Kitty's Birthday (That's Today?!)
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - If My Hole Could Talk
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Waiting for the Right Snapper
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Taterhead Is Our Love Child
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Pie Hole, Herb
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Damn You, Eggs Benedict
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Flavin' and the Mavin
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - A Jock Strap in Hell
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - It's Always Nazi Week
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Best H.O. Money Can Buy
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Pinocchio's Mouth
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - The Mooch at the Boo
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - He Smelled the Ham, He Got Excited
[12:00A] Batman - The Joker Is Wild
[12:33A] Batman - Batman Is Riled
[1:06A] Batman - The Joker Goes to School
[1:39A] Batman - He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul
[2:12A] Batman - The Joker Trumps an Ace
[2:46A] Batman - Batman Sets the Pace
[3:20A] Batman - The Impractical Joker
[3:54A] Batman - The Joker's Provokers
[4:28A] Batman - The Joker's Last Laugh
[5:02A] Batman - The Joker's Epitaph
[5:36A] Batman - Flop Goes the Joker (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] Shakespeare in Love
[1:30pm] The Wedding Planner
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
[4:00am] Hap and Leonard - Savage Season
[5:01am] Hap and Leonard - The Bottoms (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'RIPD', followed by FRESH'Van Helsing'.
A Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the mysterious British street artist on Thursday, fetching nearly £9.9 million pounds, Sotheby's auction house said.
The 2009 work entitled "Devolved Parliament" sold for £9,879,500 ($12.1 million, 11.1 million euros) following a 13-minute battle between 10 different bidders.
"Record price for a Banksy painting set at auction tonight. Shame I didn't still own it," the artist said on his Instagram account.
The previous auction record for a Banksy artwork was $1.87 million, achieved by "Keep it Spotless" at Sotheby's New York in 2008.
"Devolved Parliament" was expected to fetch £1.5 million to £2 million in Thursday's sale.
A far-right activist tried to levy bogus and salacious allegations against Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday - but she apparently had a plan for that, too.
The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender tweeted a subtle jab at right-wing conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl after the Trump supporter claimed that 70-year-old Warren had an affair with a 24-year-old sex worker and Marine.
"It's always a good day to be reminded that I got where I am because a great education was available for $50 a semester at the University of Houston (go Cougars!)," tweeted Warren in what some social media users saw as a veiled reference to a term for a relationship between an older woman and a younger man."We need to cancel student debt and make college free for everyone who wants it."
Wohl has a history of claiming to have uncovered lewd allegations against a number of prominent Democrats and other perceived enemies of President Donald Trump. He once attempted to smear special counsel Robert Mueller with false sexual assault allegations. He also concocted an unfounded sexual assault allegation against Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana.
In February, he was suspended from Twitter when the site accused him of operating a ring of fake accounts. Wohl was also recently charged in California for the illegal sale of securities and is due in court on Oct. 24.
A lucky few Kiss fans will be able to rock n roll all night while inside a submarine.
According to USA Today, the ultimate glam rock band will be putting on a private concert in Australia for great white sharks and a few die-hard fans as part of a promotion for Airbnb. The special concert is just one of many Animal Experiences recently launched by Airbnb.
On the morning of Nov. 18, eight fans of the band will travel off the coast of Port Lincoln, South Australia by boat and then submerge into a submarine where they can not only enjoy live rock music but also enjoy some up-close-and-personal views of great white sharks, according to The Wrap. Before entering the viewing submarine, guests will be able to cruise along the coastline to get a glimpse of birds, dolphins, and other native wildlife.
The band will also travel to this area but stay above the water on another vessel. Underwater speakers will blast the bands head-banging rock tunes for the fans as well as the sharks.
Welcome to Shark Rock City, where KISS will perform a live set off the southern coast of Australia to entice sharks, who love the low-frequency sounds of rock and roll, the experience description says on the Airbnb website.
Magne Furuholmen, the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, has responded to a recent re-election video for President Don-Old Trump (R-Aderall) that visually borrows from the group's classic video for "Take on Me."
"You write a song in your youth and you don't write for a particular group of people one way or another; you write it for everyone. But then stuff like this happens," Furuholmen tells Rolling Stone.
The video for "Take on Me," released in 1985 and directed by renowned British videographer Steve Barron, became famous for its landmark use of rotoscoping, a technique of tracing live-action footage frame-by-frame with pencil drawings to form animation. MTV quickly latched onto the clip's unique visuals and put it in heavy rotation, skyrocketing A-ha into international fame and turning "Take on Me" into one of the most iconic videos from the MTV era.
While "Take on Me" certainly isn't the only piece of visual art, let alone the only music video, to use rotoscoping, its style is so recognizable that when Trump shared the video on Twitter on Monday night, Twitter users immediately evoked A-ha's clip.
Because of the time difference in Norway, Furuholmen awoke to find the clip already well into the process of going viral online. When asked what he thinks of the pro-Trump video borrowing the rotoscope look from the A-ha video, Furuholmen says, "Even blind pigs can find truffles."
The University of Florida is facing backlash for a scheduled speaking event that will feature the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. (R-Useless), and former Fox "News" host propagandist Kim Guilfoyle (R-More Useless), who serves as a senior adviser for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.
Details of the October 10 event were announced on Tuesday by the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, an agency of the University of Florida's student government.
According to The Independent Florida Alligator, the daily student newspaper of the University of Florida, the pair will be paid $50,000 for the speaking engagement. That money is funded by student activity fees, though the event itself is free and open to the public.
ACCENT Speakers Bureau Chair Henry Fair defended the decision in an email to the Alligator, saying that the event hopes to spark discussion.
Students and staff have slammed the decision to invite Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle to speak and have voiced concern that their money was being used to fuel a political agenda.
Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire rained from the sky in Chile last week, and officials are still trying to figure out what they were and where they came from.
One thing is certain: The mysterious burning objects were not meteors, according to news reports.
The fiery UFOs descended on Dalcahue City on the Chilean island of Chiloé on Sept. 25, CNET reported. . The tumbling objects crash-landed in seven locations, setting off fires that were promptly put out by volunteer firefighters. .
Geologists from Chile's National Geology and Mining Service soon arrived to examine the seven sites that had been scorched by the falling space stuff. While they conducted their analyses, the story spread through local news, social media and national outlets.
On Sept. 28, the geologists released their official assessment: None of the seven sites contained traces of meteorite. Since the mysterious objects weren't meteors, logic dictates that they must have been wayward space junk, but officials said they'll be conducting more detailed analyses of soil samples collected from the singed sites to make sure, according to CNET. The geologists will release their results later this month. Only time will tell what exactly fell from the heavens on that unusual September evening.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of October 2, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $12,700,483; $226.61.
2. Ed Sheeran; $8,318,596; $89.65.
3. Pink; $5,622,021; $107.11.
4. Metallica; $5,184,194; $97.43.
5. Muse; $4,112,925; $80.09.
6. Dead & Company; $2,530,914; $87.39.
7. Jennifer Lopez; $2,252,916; $137.28.
8. Phish; $2,155,589; $65.23.
9. Jonas Brothers; $1,975,147; $123.21.
10. Queen + Adam Lambert; $1,946,470; $123.74.
11. Ariana Grande; $1,760,268; $113.93.
12. Def Leppard; $1,663,142; $127.53.
13. John Mayer; $1,571,321; $108.77.
14. Zac Brown Band; $1,554,017; $62.12.
15. Hugh Jackman; $1,473,290; $101.85.
16. Florida Georgia Line; $1,417,185; $70.94.
17. Michael Bublé; $1,412,999; $112.36.
18. Dave Matthews Band; $1,320,862; $73.32.
19. Backstreet Boys; $1,253,043; $91.40.
20. Jeff Lynne's ELO; $1,194,492; $103.86.
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