Nuevas 3 nominaciones en los 2007 Billboard Touring Awards

The Police, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Chesney, y Genesis se encuentran entre los finalistas de la edición 2007 de los premios «Billboard Touring Awards».

Los premios, que se presentarán el 15 de noviembre en Nueva York como parte de la conferencia «2007 Billboard Touring Conference» en el hotel Roosevelt Hotel, pretenden honrar a los mejor artistas de la industria que han ofrecido diferentes conciertos al rededor del mundo, basándose en las listas oficiales «Billboard Boxscore», que contiene información desde el 1 de enero hasta el 1 de septiembre de 2007.

The Police y Timberlake son finalistas en ambas categorías «Top Tour» y «Top Draw», que van dirigidas a aquellos artistas cuyos conciertos han obtenido mayor afluencia de personas y venta de tickets, respectivamente. Timberlake también es finalista en la categoría «Breakthrough», junto con Aguilera y Mana.

TOP TOUR
Genesis, Turn It On Again
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveShow
The Police Reunion Tour

TOP DRAW
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveShow
Kenny Chesney, Flip Flop Summer Tour
The Police Reunion Tour

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Christina Aguilera
Justin Timberlake
Mana

The Police, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Chesney, and Genesis are among the finalists for the 2007 Billboard Touring Awards.

The awards, which will be presented Nov. 15 in New York as part of the 2007 Billboard Touring Conference at New York’s Roosevelt Hotel, honor the industry’s top artists, venues and professionals for the year, based on the Billboard Boxscore chart. They are based on actual box office performance from Jan. 1, 2007 to Sept. 30, 2007.

The Police and Timberlake are finalists for both the Top Tour and Top Draw awards, which are given to the top-grossing tour and the top ticket-selling tour, respectively. Genesis joins them in the Tour category and Chesney in the Draw group. Timberlake is also a finalist for Breakthrough tour, with Aguilera and Mana.

For the first time this year, Billboard will also present the Billboard Concert Marketing & Promotion award, the only award (outside of the Humanitarian and Legend awards) not decided by Billboard Boxscore, but rather by more than 30,000 online votes at Billboard.com and Billboard.biz, through Oct. 31.

The seven finalists for the award, which recognizes a sponsorship or promotion that achieved its marketing goals in a quantifiable way, benefited the concert industry at large by stimulating live event attendance and provided a value to music fans.

They include the Jagermeister Mobile Stage, Summerfest’s U.S. Cellular Connection Stage, the Jeep-sponsored Tim McGraw/Faith Hill Soul2Soul (S2S) 2007 Tour, BlackBerry-sponsored John Mayer 2007 Tour, Hershey’s S’more Access to Brad Paisley and Verizon Wireless’ sponsorship of Fergie’s tour.

Here are the 2007 Billboard Touring Awards finalists:

TOP TOUR
Genesis, Turn It On Again
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveShow
The Police Reunion Tour

TOP DRAW
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveShow
Kenny Chesney, Flip Flop Summer Tour
The Police Reunion Tour

TOP PACKAGE
Christina Aguilera (with Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane)
Kenny Chesney Flip Flop Summer Tour (with Sugarland, Pat Green, Brooks & Dunn, Sara Evans)
Tim McGraw/Faith Hill Soul2Soul II (with Lori McKEnna, Halfway To Hazard, Lance Miller, Taylor Swift)

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Christina Aguilera
Justin Timberlake
Mana

TOP BOXSCORE
Bonnaroo
Download Festival (U.K.)
Prince at the O2 in London

TOP COMEDY TOUR
Larry the Cable Guy
George Lopez
Katt Williams

TOP ARENA
Air Canada Centre, Toronto
Bell Centre, Montreal
Madison Square Garden, New York

TOP AMPHITHEATRE
Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colo.
Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, Mass.

TOP CLUB
9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
The Fillmore, Denver
The Fillmore, San Francisco

TOP VENUE UNDER 10,000 SEATS (NON-RESIDENT)
Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City
Fox Theatre, Atlanta
Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Citywalk, Universal City, Calif.

TOP VENUE UNDER 10,000 SEATS (RESIDENT)
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

TOP FESTIVAL
Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, Tenn.
Download U.K., Castle Donington, England
Lollapalooza, Chicago

TOP PROMOTER
AEG Live
CIE
Live Nation

TOP INDEPENDENT PROMOTER
C3 Presents, Austin, Texas
Jam Productions, Chicago
Outback Concerts, Nashville

TOP AGENCY
Artist Group International
Creative Artists Agency
William Morris Agency

TOP MANAGER
Front Line Management
Kathy Schenker Management
Wright Entertainment Group

HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Kevin Wall

LEGEND OF LIVE
Frank Barsalona