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    Billy Joel and Sting play America’s only baseball stadium show in Milwaukee

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    This story has been updated because an earlier version contained an inaccuracy.

    Billy Joel and Sting will play four football stadiums together in 2025, after sharing the bill for a handful of stadium shows in the United States earlier this year.

    But next year they’ll play just one US show together in a relatively more intimate Major League Baseball stadium – and that’ll be in Milwaukee.

    Joel and Sting will perform at the Milwaukee Brewers’ American Family Field on Saturday, April 26, the team and concert promoter, Madison-based FPC Live, announced Thursday morning.

    This will be “Piano Man” Joel’s first show in town since 2019, when he played his only Midwestern show that year at the Brewers’ ballpark.

    The absence has been even longer for Sting, who last performed in the city in 2016 during a co-headlining concert with Peter Gabriel at the Summerfest amphitheater. That show landed on the Journal Sentinel’s list of the best concerts of that year.

    Tickets for the Milwaukee concert go on sale Friday, November 15 at 10 a.m livenation.com And ticketmaster.com. Citi cardholders will have access to a pre-sale on Monday at 10am. Prices have yet to be announced.

    Due to the pandemic, the Brewers are hosting more concerts each year, with a record number of shows – four of them – in 2023 and again in 2024, featuring George Strait with Chris Stapleton, Pink, Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, Green Dag and others.

    Last year, the team also hosted the first-ever two-night run at a Milwaukee stadium with Wallen, breaking attendance records with both Strait and Pink. Combined, those shows grossed $35.4 million from 178,107 tickets. That was enough to make the now nearly 23-year-old Brewers ballpark the 19th highest-grossing concert stadium in the country, according to the concert publication Pollstar, a list largely led by football stadiums in larger markets with significantly higher seating capacity. .

    Jason Hartlund, who oversaw the stadium concerts as the Brewers’ executive vice president/chief commercial officer, told the Journal Sentinel earlier this year (before leaving the organization) that the team hopes to do four to six concert tours per year to organize.

    With the stadium sector of the travel industry growing, this seems feasible. According to Pollstar, the top 100 stadiums’ revenues for concerts rose 35% to $3.62 billion in 2023, while the number of tickets sold for those tours also rose 22.2% to 29.1 million.

    And next year, American Family Field won’t be the only stadium in Wisconsin hosting a major tour. Camp Randall Stadium, home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Badgers football team, will host its first major concert since 1997 with Coldplay on July 19. That show, which will also be presented by Live Nation-backed FPC Live, is nearly sold out and resale tickets are available.

    This story has been updated to add new information.

    More: How the Milwaukee Brewers’ American Family Field became one of the best concert stadiums in the country

    More: Milwaukee’s American Family Field is among the top-grossing stadiums in the world for concerts in 2023

    Contact Pete at (414) 223-5162 or [email protected]. Follow him on X @pietlevy or Facebook at facebook.com/PietLevyMJS.

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