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Jonas Brothers Sell a Staggering 800,000 Tickets to North American Leg of Their World Tour
Date : 03/30/2009 @ 3:22PM
Source : PR Newswire
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Jonas Brothers Sell a Staggering 800,000 Tickets to North American Leg of Their World Tour




SECOND SHOWS ADDED IN SEVERAL CITIES

NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jonas Brothers' explosive growth as a touring band was affirmed this weekend when multiple dates on the North American leg of their upcoming world tour quickly sold out. Fans of the Grammy nominated band purchased over 800,000 tickets, resulting in sold-out arena shows in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Houston, Pittsburgh, Edmonton, New Orleans and Atlanta. Second dates were immediately added in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Vancouver. In addition, the Jonas Brothers sold out five arena shows in the New York area to meet the tremendous fan demand. "The Jonas Brothers Worlds Tour 2009" is presented by Burger King and produced by Live Nation.

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"The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009" the band's most ambitious production yet and will include a massive 140-foot plus stage centered in the arena that aims to give a larger number of Jonas Brothers' fans a closer, more interactive live concert than they've ever experienced before. This weekend, the Jonas Brothers also revealed a first look at their new stage on their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/JonasBrothersMusic. The show will feature cutting edge technology used in a one-of-a-kind circular water screen, multi-color laser effects, motion automated video screens, a giant crane levitating over the audience plus other surprises that will bring the tour to the next level of concert entertainment. Special guests American Idol winner and 19 Entertainment/Jive Records' platinum-selling artist, Jordin Sparks and rising stars, Honor Society.

"The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009" will also take the band to three continents where they will perform their hits along with new music from their upcoming Hollywood Records album set for world-wide release on June 15th. Starting on May 17th in Monterrey, Mexico, Jonas Brothers will bring their world tour to Latin America for six dates in countries such as Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina. Hollywood Records artist and star of the Disney Channel original movie "Camp Rock," and the television series "Sonny With A Chance," Demi Lovato, will be opening all Latin American shows on "The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009." After a brief visit to Europe in June including sold-out dates in Madrid, Paris and London, the band will tour North America and then return to Europe for a full continental tour in October and November of this year.

"Ticket sales for this tour have been phenomenal," said Jason Garner, Chief Executive Officer of Global Music for Live Nation. "The band has already sold out arena dates in 13 major cities, including Madrid, London and Paris, and with additional dates going on sale in Mexico and South America and Europe in April, it's clear to us that Jonas Brothers are a true global touring powerhouse."

For the most recent tour dates and further information, please visit http://www.livenation.com/ or http://www.jonasbrothers.com/.

ABOUT LIVE NATION:

Live Nation's mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry's first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company, please visit http://www.livenation.com/investors.

ABOUT BURGER KING CORPORATION

The BURGER KING(R) system operates more than 11,700 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING(R) restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations and Ad Week named it one of the top three industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades. To learn more about Burger King Corp., please visit the company's Web site at http://www.bk.com/.

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CONTACT: Liz Morentin of Live Nation, [phone],

; or Victor Trevino, or

Sonia Muckle, , both for The Jonas Brothers World

Tour 2009; or Lillian Matulic of Hollywood Records,

; or Ticeman Merriweather of Jive Records,



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