Madison Square Garden (MSG) has retained the title of number one venue for the fourth consecutive week, according to TicketNews’s exclusive venues rankings for the week ending Sunday, January 17.

MSG continues to benefit from solid ticket sales for its two popular sports teams, the New York Rangers and New York Knicks, which made it to number eight in TicketNews’s Top Sports Events rankings this week. Also boosting MSG’s numbers are scheduled performances by the Black Eyed Peas (at number six in TicketNews’s Top Concert Events rankings this week) and John Mayer (at number eight) in February, as well as Jay-Z (number four) in March. MSG power scored an impressive 3.86 this week.

The Gershwin Theatre in New York City moved up two to take the number two spot this week. Power scoring a 2.76, the theater is home to the award-winning musical Wicked, which topped TicketNews’s Top Broadway Events, Top Theater Events, Top Combined Events and even Top Vegas Events rankings this week.

TicketNews Exclusive Rankings and Power Scores are based on ticket sales for venues from the TicketNetwork Exchange™, the world's largest secondary market exchange. A Power Score illustrates a given venue's category-specific significance. Two factors are used to calculate a power score: total ticket sales for a venue, and total ticket sales within the category. As such, power scores should only be used to compare venues within a particular category.
Top Venues

Week Ending 1/17/2010
Venue Score
1 Madison Square Garden Tickets 3.86
2 Gershwin Theatre Tickets 2.76
3 Louisiana Superdome Tickets 2.72
4 Reliant Stadium Tickets 2.55
5 Metrodome Tickets 2.50
6 Lucas Oil Stadium Tickets 2.39
7 Staples Center Tickets 1.88
8 Dolphin Stadium Tickets 1.88
9 TD Garden (Fleet Center) Tickets 1.65
10 Qualcomm Stadium Tickets 1.54
11 Wachovia Center Tickets 1.54
12 INTRUST Bank Arena Tickets 1.39
13 Virginia/August Wilson Theatre - NY Tickets 1.37
14 Radio City Music Hall Tickets 1.35
15 Orpheum Theatre - San Francisco Tickets 1.27
16 Caesars Palace - Colosseum Tickets 1.18
17 Bank Atlantic Center Tickets 1.14
18 Verizon Center - DC Tickets 1.12
19 American Airlines Center Tickets 1.10
20 Dallas Cowboys Stadium Tickets 1.06

MSG has been a huge venue for concerts and hockey for years. With the Knicks struggling so much, very surprised to see MSG still do as well selling tickets. I guess it always helps to be in NYC. Glad to see the Orpheum Theatre making it in the top 15. Wicked has done extremely well for them.