More live music awards - well, nomination lists anyway. Organisers of Billboard Touring Awards, which recognise the most commercially successful live music events of the last twelve months, based on data reported in Billboard Boxscore, published their shortlists yesterday - and Madonna, perhaps unsurprisingly, does rather well.
She is shortlisted for three prizes herself, while her managers, Angela Becker and Guy Oseary, are up for the Top Manager award. Madonna herself is up for top-grossing tour, top ticket selling tour and for the award for top grossing single engagement.
It is Madonna's gigs at London's Wembley Arena that are nominated in the latter category. Other finalists for that prize are Luis Miguel at Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City and Billy Joel's shows at New York's Madison Square Garden.
The Garden also appears in the top arena category, a prize it has won for the last two years. This year it faces competition from TD Banknorth Arena in Boston and Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.
Competing for the top agency prize are Creative Artists Agency, Monterey Peninsula Artists/Paradigm and William Morris Agency, while nominated for top promoter are AEG Live, HOB Concerts and Live Nation.
The overall winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on 9 Nov.