--- title: The British Are Coming! Again! description: Once again British performers have set their sights on US arenas. This time it's prices for One Direction tickets that are blowing all others away. --- [![BLOG](https://blog.ticketiq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BLOG.png?width=400&height=120&name=BLOG.png "BLOG")](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog) - [Shop Now](http://www.ticketiq.com/) - [Baseball](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/baseball/) - [Basketball](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/basketball/) - [Football](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/football/) - [Hockey](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/hockey/) - [Soccer](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/soccer/) - [Music](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/music/) - [Theater](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/theater/) - [Other](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/other/) # The British Are Coming! Again! July 9, 2013 by [Jesse Lawrence](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/author/jesse-lawrence) Following the original mid-60s invasion spearheaded by The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones and the early-80's second led by the likes of Wham!, Eurythmics and Culture Club, a third wave of British acts are now in the midst of conquering both the Billboard charts and the US live scene. ![One Direction Tickets](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png) Tipped to be one of the highest-grossing of 2013, One Direction’s mammoth Take Me Home (with other boy band [5 Seconds of Summer](http://www.tiqiq.com/concerts/5-seconds-of-summer-tickets)) world tour will have taken in 32 cities and 42 dates by the time it concludes its North American leg at Los Angeles’ Staple Center (TicketIQ get-in price $149/average price $467) on August 10. However, the tour’s overall average price of $603 is just one of many expensive figures which initially suggest that being a fan of UK pop music currently comes at a pretty high cost. Indeed, only highlighting their dominance, [One Direction tickets](http://www.tiqiq.com/concerts/one-direction-tickets) account for an astonishing 34 of the Top 50 most expensive shows by average price this year, including two which exceed a whopping $1000 – Houston’s Toyota Center on July 21 ($1330/get-in price $348) and Dallas’ American Airlines Center on Jul 22 ($1028/get-in price $237). The only other act to get anywhere near them are another British phenomenon. Equalling the X-Factor boyband’s overall tour average, the highest of 2013 by quite some distance, The Rolling Stones tickets for their recent 50 & Counting tour also appear seven times on the costliest Top 50 average price shows, with the June 24 gig at Washington’s Verizon Center the most expensive at $822. The huge appetite for [Beyonce tickets](http://www.tiqiq.com/concerts/beyonce-tickets) ensure that there’s at least one home-grown presence near the top of the chain – [The Mrs Carter Show](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/02/beyonce-tickets-for-mrs-carter-show-world-tour-may-be-most-expensive-of-2013/) world tour achieved the third highest overall average price of 2013 at $341 and features eight times on the Top 50 list. But although Depeche Mode were the only other name to feature on the Top 50 list, with their June 9 gig at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center coming in at No. 17 at $767, not every act from across the pond costs such an eye-watering amount to see. The overall average tour price of [Paul McCartney tickets](http://www.tiqiq.com/concerts/paul-mccartney-tickets) for his Out There! world tour is listed at $245, only a small fraction more than relatively newer upstarts [Bruno Mars](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/03/bruno-mars-tickets-the-moonshine-jungle-world-tour/) ($223) and [Justin Timberlake](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/05/justin-timberlake-tickets-2020-experience-tour/) ($222). [Black Sabbath](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/04/black-sabbath-tickets-2013-reunion-tour/)’s reunion tour has an average price of $211, a far lower figure than other 70s rock legends on the comeback trail such as The Eagles ($279) and Fleetwood Mac ($265). While unlike two other ubiquitous chart stars who have joined forces, [Maroon 5 & Kelly Clarkson](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/04/maroon-5-kelly-clarkson-honda-civic-tour-tickets/), [Ed Sheeran & Taylor Swift’s tour](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/02/prices-on-the-rise-for-taylor-swift-tickets/) comes in at just under the $200 mark. And with the likes of [Muse](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/04/muse-tickets-add-third-north-american-round-to-the-2nd-law-tour/), [James Blake](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/06/james-blake-tickets-north-america-for-fall-tour/) and [Kate Nash](http://blog.tiqiq.com/2013/06/kate-nash-tickets-north-america-2013/) all set to visit these shores for a much more affordable price over the next few months, the third British pop invasion needn’t always burn a hole in your wallet. **[Sell tickets](http://www.tiqiq.com/tiqiq/sell-tickets) for FREE w/ SellerDirect & WIN $200 in FREE Tickets to any event on TicketIQ.com.** ## Search our blog [![Blog Banner copy-3](https://blog.ticketiq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog%20Banner%20copy-3.png?width=266&name=Blog%20Banner%20copy-3.png "Blog Banner copy-3")](https://bit.ly/2R9DTL8) ## Blog Categories - [Music (1561)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/music) - [Basketball (475)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/basketball) - [Football (469)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/football) - [Baseball (376)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/baseball) - [Concert Tickets (343)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/concert-tickets) - [Concerts (335)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/concerts) - [Hockey (289)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/hockey) - [TicketIQ (224)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/ticketiq) - [Other (197)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/other) - [MLB (117)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/mlb) - [NBA (104)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/nba) - [NFL (104)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/nfl) - [Golden State Warriors (103)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/golden-state-warriors) - [Theater (95)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/theater) - [Cleveland Cavaliers (93)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/cleveland-cavaliers) - [NCAA Football (91)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/ncaa-football) - [New York Rangers (89)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/new-york-rangers) - [New York Yankees (89)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/new-york-yankees) - [Boston Red Sox (85)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/boston-red-sox) - [Soccer (84)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/soccer) - [New England Patriots (72)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/new-england-patriots) - [Chicago Blackhawks (71)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/chicago-blackhawks) - [Chicago Cubs (68)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/chicago-cubs) - [New York Knicks (67)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/new-york-knicks) - [NCAA Basketball (61)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/ncaa-basketball) - [Dallas Cowboys (60)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/dallas-cowboys) - [Los Angeles Lakers (56)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/los-angeles-lakers) - [NHL (54)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/nhl) - [Green Bay Packers (53)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/green-bay-packers) - [Los Angeles Dodgers (49)](https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/topic/los-angeles-dodgers) Copyright © TicketIQ 2021 | | | --- | ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Jesse Lawrence", "url" : "https://blog.ticketiq.com/blog/author/jesse-lawrence" }, "datePublished" : "2013-07-09T19:26:39.000Z", "headline" : "The British Are Coming! 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