Chicago Cubs Top Both Yankees and Red Sox in TicketsNow February Ticket Sales

Chicago Cubs Top Both Yankees and Red Sox in TicketsNow February Ticket Sales

Wicked and Tim McGraw also take top honors

CHICAGO, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With Opening Day less than a month away, Chicago Cubs fans show their undying loyalty, purchasing an impressive 6% of all sports tickets sold on TicketsNow.com in February. The World Baseball Classic, MLB's newest controversial project, seems to have more fans than critics capturing 2.5% of TicketsNow sports sales for the month.

The Cubs made a jump to the top of the sports list and accounted for 2.8% of overall ticket sales. The Boston Red Sox reclaimed their advantage over the New York Yankees with 5.1% of sports sales to the Yankees' 4.1%.

"Baseball fans are some of the most loyal fans in the world, and we expect ticket sales to remain strong as we get closer to Opening Day," said Kenneth Dotson, Chief Marketing Officer for TicketsNow. "For our customers, having great baseball tickets is not just about watching the game; it's about the full experience of spending the day with friends and family at a ballpark like Fenway or Wrigley."

Wicked continues its incredible run, topping both the theater and overall lists with 27.7% and 5.7% of sales respectively. Tim McGraw claimed the top spot on the concert list with 9.8% of sales in that category.

Following are the category leaders for February:

Top February Events Overall
1 Wicked 6 Boston Red Sox
2 Tim McGraw 7 Michael Buble
3 Houston Rodeo 8 New York Yankees
4 Monty Python's Spamalot 9 The Odd Couple
5 Chicago Cubs 10 Coldplay

Top February Sports Ticket Sales
1 Chicago Cubs
2 Boston Red Sox
3 New York Yankees
4 San Antonio Spurs
5 Miami Heat

Top February Concert Ticket Sales
1 Tim McGraw
2 Houston Rodeo
3 Michael Buble
4 Billy Joel
5 Coldplay

Top February Theater Ticket Sales
1 Wicked
2 Monty Python Spamalot
3 The Odd Couple
4 The Lion King
5 Jersey Boys

About the TicketsNow Entertainment Index

The TicketsNow Entertainment Index tracks proprietary secondary ticket sales on a monthly basis to provide a snapshot of entertainment trends for sports, music, and theater events nationwide.

About TicketsNow

Established in 1999, TicketsNow is the world's largest and most trusted marketplace for premium event tickets. More than 90% of all professional ticket agencies that list, buy, and sell secondary event tickets online utilize software developed by TicketsNow -- creating the most comprehensive database of secondary event tickets in the world. Named to the Inc. 500 index of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S., TicketsNow is a premium ticket provider for USA TODAY and AOL, a member of the Better Business Bureau, and a founding member of the NATB, which promotes the highest level of ethics in the secondary ticketing marketplace. For more information, visit http://www.ticketsnow.com/

Contact:
Sarah Schorno
Alan Taylor Communications for TicketsNow
212.714.1280 x249
sarahs@alantaylor.com

Jennifer Swanson
TicketsNow
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jswanson@TicketsNow.com

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