Springsteen's Australian tour winner

One young Bruce Springsteen fan joined The Boss on stage in Brisbane to sing before doing a knee slide. Courtesy YouTube/TheLouie01

BRUCE Springsteen's Australian tour has reinforced his position as The Boss of concert revenue.

Bruce Springsteen's ten Australian dates generated over $25 million in ticket sales, putting him at the top of American music magazine Billboard's global Hot Tours tally this week.

Source: news.com.au

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Springsteen's ten Australian dates put him ahead of 11 US dates in March by Rihanna, which generated $11 million and 23 UK dates through February and March by British pop star Olly Murs which generated $10 million.

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The Top 10 also includes a UK X Factor tour, UK Justin Bieber tour and tours by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.

Billboard reports Springsteen played to 47,796 fans over three shows at Sydney's Allphones Arena and 46,740 shows over three shows at Rod Laver Arena. Both venues generated over $7 million in ticket sales for the shows.

Bruce Springsteen at a press conference before the Brisbane gag -  his Australian tour has been the most financially rewarding of any this year.

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Two Hanging Rock shows - to over 34,000 fans - generated over $5 million, while the two Brisbane shows to over 24,000 fans generated $4.2 million.

Jimmy Barnes joins Bruce Springsteen on stage at Hanging Rock

The $25 million generated from the Boss' Australian tour will be broken down and spread out between the artist, his musicians, local promoter Frontier as well as associated costs including concert production, venue hire, travel, security, insurance, crew fees, management, advertising, marketing and GST.

Legendary rocker Bruce Springtsteen has kicked off his Australian tour, lighting up the stage in Brisbane.

Springsteen's Wrecking Ball tour now heads to Europe. The tour was the second-highest grossing jaunt of last year, behind Madonna.

Springsteen's Australian tour figures make him one of the most lucrative international visitors since Pink's Funhouse tour in 2009, which generated over $80 million.

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Germany 'copied Eurovision winner'

Natalie Horler of Cascada celebrates after winning the German trials for the Eurovision Song Contest in Hanover. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

GERMANY'S entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest entry is being investigated after claims it copied last year's winner.

German broadcaster NDR said it had "commissioned a musical audit" to examine claims that the song Glorious by German band Cascada, chosen Thursday to represent Germany, was a rip-off of Euphoria by Swedish artist Loreen.

NDR spokeswoman Iris Bents said the station would publish the results of the study when they were available but played down the allegations.

"Every year there are attempts to create scandals around the Eurovision Song Contest and the participants," she said.

She said the catchy techno-pop song Euphoria, which smashed the competition in 2012 with a massive 372 points, had also been accused of being a copy of work by French DJ David Guetta and Barbadian pop star Rihanna.

The producers of Glorious have rejected all allegations, Ms Bents said.

Cascada's lead singer Natalie Horler, who was born in Germany to British parents, told local news agency DPA: "If you like, we can superimpose one song on the other. They are two different songs."

But according to a phonetics expert quoted in the Bild am Sonntag weekly, the two songs are "absolutely identical" at the beginning.

"The chorus uses the same accentuation, the ending peaks with the same combinations. The singers even use the same breathing methods," said the expert, Tina John.

The Eurovision Song Contest, an annual pop music extravaganza broadcast across Europe but also in dozens of countries around the world, will take place this year in the southern Swedish city of Malmoe on May 18.

Every year hopefuls from 26 countries compete in the final, hoping to become the new ABBA and avoid the dreaded fate of 'nul points' - picking up no points from the jury.

Plagiarism has been in the news in Germany in recent weeks following the resignation of Annette Schavan as education minister after being stripped of her doctorate title for allegedly copying parts of her thesis 33 years ago.
 

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