Concert Week Excitement Has Arrived in Central Jersey

We are now at one of the most exciting times of the year in New Jersey. As Concert Week begins the anticipation of summer concerts fills our hearts and minds as we look forward to another summer of concerts, shows and events in New Jersey and around the country and Canada.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Live Nation's Concert Week we're giving away tickets to a few of the featured concerts throughout Mother's Day weekend.

It begins on May 8^th and continues through May 14^th, allowing us to save big bucks on the concerts and shows coming during the warm weather days in the sun.

LiveNation.com celebrates Concert Week by offering $25 dollar tickets to over 5000 of Live Nation’s most sought-after shows of the season. It’s also worth mentioning that its $25 total, all in, and nothing more, for each ticket. No added fees, no hidden costs, simply the same amount you would basically pay for parking at one of these music or comedy shows.

You go to their site, select a show designated “Concert Week Promotion,” toss it in your cart and check out. Then enter the date in your iCal and look forward to an inexpensive good time.

If you’re a customer of T-Mobile or Rakuten then you’ll get early access to the Concert promotion discounted shows. The Live Nation site also states that in the “US only, use your Hilton Honors Points to get tickets to your favorite shows. Get 2 Tickets for only 25K Points during Concert Week! Connect your Hilton Honors and Ticketmaster accounts today to ensure you’re prepped and ready to pay with Points when tickets go on sale.”

For shows included in this deep discount promotion, the list is thousands long. The Live Nation website list includes Magic 98.3 artists, 311, Alanis Morissette, Blink 182, Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire, Creed, Dan and Shay, Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello, Hootie & the Blowfish, Janet Jackson, Kings of Leon, Maren Morris, Maroon 5, Meghan Trainor, New Kids on the Block, Niall Horan, P!nk, Santana and Counting Crows, Sarah McLachlan, Styx and Foreigner, Third Eye Blind, and Train and REO Speedwagon. This is just a short list of the many shows available at up to 75% off for Concert Week.

Go to Livenation.com/promotion/concertweek for more information

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As we kick off 2024, many of our favorite musicians are planning to hit the road once again. Some are continuing their tours from last year, expanding dates in cities that have sold out and filling up stadiums for their ever-devoted fans. Gametime has released new data highlighting the most anticipated concert tours of the year based on average ticket price -- and some of the numbers are astounding. It is no surprise that the highest-priced tours belong to Taylor Swift and Adele, as we've covered their past ticket prices being thousands of dollars.

Swift's Eras Tour shows last three-and-a-half hours as she covers all aspects of her career, from country to pop to indie. With her two “surprise songs” each night, fans are always eager to find out what songs she’ll choose for that segment. On top of that, her timing is impeccable for fans “itching for a post-pandemic live music immersive experience.” Another factor is how much Swifties appreciate Taylor’s dedication to her craft: writing all her songs and reclaiming ownership of all of her music by re-recording her discography. Fans have also been buying and streaming the new versions of her old songs and the bonus tracks on her re-recorded versions of her albums. Her tour is expected to pass $1 billion in sales by this March and if that happens, the singer-songwriter will make history.

Then there's Adele, whose Las Vegas residency, Weekends With Adele has reached the finale. With 32 dates, the English singer-songwriter will be at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace from January to June. Known for spending time chatting with her fans and making her way down to the audience, the candid moments during Adele's residency has become well-documented on social media, showing the fun times fans have to see her.

Take a look below at which five music artists have the hottest concert tickets of 2024 so far, based on the prices of their tickets on Gametime.

Kicking off our list of the highest priced tickets of 2024, the "Piano Man" singer will only be performing for 15 dates. However, his average ticket price is $560.07 and he will be all over the globe, starting with a sold-out show in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24. With more sold-out shows sprinkled throughout his scheduled performances, Joel added additional dates to his original ten events. In additon to his Madison Square Garden residency, he will also play Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wales.

The "WHERE SHE GOES" singer and rapper will be on his Most Wanted tour, with 47 dates. His median ticket price is $661.01, starting in Utah at the end of February. Bad Bunny will also be making stops in nearly every state: Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Minneapolis, Missouri, Illinois, Ontario, Michigan, Washington, D.C., New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and ending in Florida on May 28.

The "vampire" singer embarks on her GUTS World Tour, with her tickets' median price being $734.17. Rodrigo will be touring the US for 46 dates with accompanying acts Pinkpantheress, The Breeders, Chappell Roan, and Remi Wolf at select cities. The singer will kick off the tour a few days after her 21st birthday in California, before making stops in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Massachusetts, then New York. She will leave North America for tour dates in Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. After a few weeks break, Rodrigo will return to North America for 18 more dates, finally closing out her tour on August 17 in Los Angeles.

Coming in at second place, Adele's continuation and end of her Las Vegas residency boasts $2,079.42 as her median ticket prices to watch her perform live. The "Easy on Me" singer will be performing for 32 dates over the course of 2024, from January 19 to June 15 at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace. She had 24 shows in 23 and the English singer-songwriter is set to outdo herself with the additional dates this year. Reflecting on X (formerly Twitter), the Grammy winner said, "This residency, these shows have changed my life. I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have."

The pop icon's median ticket price for her 2024 Eras Tour is a whopping $3,525.42, having her claim the top spot for highest-priced tickets of the year. With 18 tour dates this year, Swift will be heading all over the globe, making stops at Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, then heading back to the US. She will be performing in Florida, Louisiana, and Indiana, before going global once again in Canada, closing out her tour on December 8 in Vancouver.