Doing one show a month at Madison Square Garden in New York for 10-and-a-half years was very, very good to Billy Joel. According to Billboard Boxscore, he earned $266.7 million and sold 1.9 million tickets over 104 shows. Every show sold out for an average of 18,604 tickets per night. His final show, this past July 25th, took in more than $5 million from 18,576 tickets. Overall, his residency is the third-highest grossing concert residency in Billboard Boxscore history, with Celine Dion's A New Day… Las Vegas residency from 2003 to 2007 grossing $385.1 million, and its followup, 2011 to '19's Celine, taking in $296.2 million.
Justin Timberlake has snagged a plea deal over his New York DWI case that will allow him to dodge drunk driving charges and instead be slapped with a traffic violation, according to a new report. Timberlake signed off on the deal on Tuesday, with Timberlake officially charged with driving while ability impaired, sources familiar with the case told TMZ. The deal, which will be officially entered on Friday, would see Timberlake pay a $300 to $500 fine, with the exact fine to be set by the judge. He is expected to attend Friday’s hearing at the Sag Harbor Village Justice Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office told the Post.
A mother said her daughter was exposed to a potential health hazard while smelling a candle at a local store. This all happened last Thursday at the Dollar Tree in South Bend, Indiana. Adreanna Shelton and her nine year old daughter Gray were at the Dollar Tree on South Bend Avenue shopping for a gift for Gray's teacher when Gray reached for a candle on the shelf. "We're smelling candles, and she picked up a candle to smell and tilted it back and it literally, liquid, went down her. At first we were like maybe it's just water, and as we were just walking through the store we get a foul smell and Gray goes, 'mom my shirt really stinks,'" said Shelton. That smell was urine sitting in the candle on the store shelf. Appalled by the stain and smell on her daughters shirt, Shelton went to a manager searching for answers. The store manager offered her a shirt as a replacement.
