- The Eagles are flying back into the Sphere
- John Fogerty finds a new Vegas home
- Report says BSB is raking in $4M per show during Sphere residency
The Eagles on Monday announced their return to the Sphere in Sin City in 2026 slowly, with only four shows: January 23, 24, 30, and 31.
With these new shows, the Eagles will tie the record of 48 Sphere shows currently held by Dead & Company. U2 had 40. But that record won’t stand long. As has been the norm, as these new shows sell out, additional shows will be added, a smattering at a time, for as long as Don Henley and his surviving bandmates feel up to earning millions and millions of more dollars each.
The Eagles are scheduled to finish out the year with performances at the globular wonder on September 12; October 3, 10, and 31; and November 7.
The general on-sale for the new shows starts 10 a.m. PT Friday, September 19 via eagles.com. Registration for an artist presale, which starts at 10 a.m. PT Sept. 17, is open now at eagles.com. Several other presales will follow on September 18.
The Old Man Down the Road
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty has announced his first concerts at a new Vegas venue for him. The former Credence Clearwater Revival frontman, who turned 80 on May 28, will play the PH Live theater New Year’s Eve and January 2-3, followed by March 18, 20, and 21.
In January 2025, Fogerty performed his most recent series at the Encore Theater, where he had been performing since 2017.
Tickets for the Planet Hollywood dates go on sale at 9 a.m. PT Friday, September 12 via ticketmaster.com.
How Backstreets Bank $4 Mil a Show
To compute how much an artist grosses (before expenses) by performing at a venue, you multiply the number of seats sold by their prices on Ticketmaster, right? But that’s not how the Backstreet Boys are earning $4 million per show at the Las Vegas Sphere, according to TMZ.
The key is all the VIP tickets, platinum tickets, and (especially) the travel packages that are sold containing the same seats — packages that sell for thousands and thousands of dollars per person.
The artist gets a sizeable chunk of all that profit.
It’s not all profit, of course. The band had to pay a one-time fee of $7 million – $8 million to produce the visual effects necessary to engulf their Sphere audiences. (U2 got the Sphere to front them $10 million, but they were the venue’s guinea pigs.)
The more they play the Sphere, the less every show costs the BSB in visuals, and TMZ reports an anonymous Sphere insider telling them that the band has more than recouped the outlay and that “entertainers can make as much money at the Sphere as they can on a stadium tour.”
This is exactly why a short Sphere residency can actually cost an artist more than they make, as we reported to be the case with Zak Brown.
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