Looking for fairly boring photos of Lady
Gaga is like a fun Internet scavenger hunt.

The never ending battle between pop and country-pop got interesting this week, as Lady Gaga pushed Taylor Swift from a formerly rather secure perch at the top of the countdown. Taylor tumbles to sixth place in the process, as the desperate scramble to fill up on tickets to her latest set of concert dates has subsided a bit, it seems. Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour is gearing up for a November 27th kick-off date, with a full calendar through April of next year.

Miley and Bon Jovi both move up a spot as the SEC Championship has a softer slide than Taylor, and the Big 12 Championship remains firmly in 5th place. Making his first appearance on the countdown is John Mayer, whose new album Battle Studies dropped on November 17th. Mayer is playing a couple dates in 2009 before his concert tour expands in January 2010.

Rounding out the Top 10 the Rose Bowl remains steady a 8, while the Longhorns peek in once more at 9. Buzz continues to build on the team for a spot in the Big 12 Championship and the BCS Bowl beyond. Finally, the WWE rushes in from the outside to interfere in the countdown title match and swipe the #10 belt. That will conclude the surprisingly smart mark commentary for this week.

Top 25 College Football Games for Week 14

Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary market is comprised of over 800 established ticket brokers, and fans who are listing extra tickets to sell.

Check weekly for the Top 25 list and analysis of college football!

• Data is from Week of November 16, 2009
• Average Price is generated from all Secondary Market tickets listed on TicketCity.com (approx. 800 ticket brokers)
• All prices are per ticket.
• Prices are subject to change, so they may not be the same today.

There aren’t any CMAs left.

Merry Friday the 13th. Big split this week, with an all-returning Top 5, and an all-new Bottom 5. Taylor Swift, who I learned from last week’s Saturday Night Live is very tall, remains atop the countdown, again by a handy margin. Following Miss Swift is the 2009 SEC Championship, which has garnered quite a bit of interest over the past couple weeks. That interest exploded last weekend as Alabama basically clenched their appearance. Both Florida and Alabama are considered locks at this point.

Miley remains secure at #3, while Bon Jovi climbs to 4 and the Big 12 Championship, which is a bit murkier even now, falls to 5. That ushers in the bottom 5, where an odd mix of seasonal shows, side projects, college football, and comedy turns up. On the musical side, Not So Silent Night is an alt rock / punk rock ensemble show featuring Muse, AFI, Vampire Weekend, and more. According to Wikipedia, Puscifer is a side project of noted winemaker Maynard James Keenan, who, in his spare time not making wine, fronts a band named Tool.

Rounding out the Top 10 is our first taste of bowl fever, as The Granddaddy of Them All fittingly posts the first appearance of a bowl on the countdown. TCU fans also brought their team some recognition. Finally, Dane Cook is on tour and posts the first showing of a comedian ever on the countdown.

We’ve had a great number of inquiries about SEC Championship Tickets for the game in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia Dome.  Fans want to know which sides or sections will be for Alabama and which will be for Florida.  Below is a seating chart and legend to help you out, but basically it’s pretty easy…  The SEC East team, Florida, has the East side of the stadium, and the SEC West team, Alabama, has the West side of the stadium.

Tickets allotted to Florida are in sections 124-135, 333-347.  Alabama allotment includes 101-107, 136-140 and 301-310, 348-352.  If you assume the natural split of the remaning sections will follow that would be:

University of Florida Gators

Sec 116-135

Sec 222-247

Sec 322-347

University of Alabama Crimson Tide

Sec 101-115, 136-140

Sec 200-221, 248-251

Sec 301-321, 348-352

So now you know what seats you want.  Your next step is to buy them – and quick!  Of course TicketCity can help you out, just visit www.TicketCity.com or call 1.800.SOLD.OUT for SEC Championship Tickets, Big 12 Championship Tickets, and bowl game tickets, including the BCS Championship!

PicApp Had Photos of Reeve Carney.
I chose to ignore them.

Producers of the Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark musical have cast the title role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man. The lucky guy is Reeve Carney, who is the lead singer in a rock band named “Carney.” Not sure what the inspiration for the band’s name was, but I’m sure there’s a really interesting story behind it. The casting seems strange in light of previous reports the role of Spider-Man was a non-singing one. That is apparently no longer the case, since I doubt you’d cast the lead singer of a band in a role in a musical that did not require any singing.

He joins Evan Rachel Wood (pictured) who is already cast as Mary Jane Watson and Alan Cumming, who plays the villain Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. Of the two, Alan Cumming has far more genre cred, most notably as Nightcrawler in the second X-men film. So he’s a seasoned veteran of Marvel comics adaptions. Evan Rachel Wood has a couple episodes of True Blood under her belt, that’s about it, unless you count another brief recurring role on a season of Profiler.

The musical, having experienced some delays last August, is still underway at this point, and should be opening in 2010. Check out our Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Tickets page for current inventory listings.

Top 25 College Football Games for Week 13

Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary market is comprised of over 800 established ticket brokers, and fans who are listing extra tickets to sell.

Check weekly for the Top 25 list and analysis of college football!

• Data is from Week of November 9, 2009
• Average Price is generated from all Secondary Market tickets listed on TicketCity.com (approx. 800 ticket brokers)
• All prices are per ticket.
• Prices are subject to change, so they may not be the same today.

Of course everyone is talking about the conference matchups including the Big 12 Championship in Dallas and the heated SEC Championship in Atlanta with #1 Florida and #3 Alabama looking to meet head to head.  But it is November already, so bowl predictions have begun as well.  The pros have their opinions, but we know college football fans have their own predictions – whether based on a gut feeling, their own educated guesses, or in some cases, simply a strong desire to will their team into the BCS Championship.

Regardless of how fans make their predictions or what they base them on, TicketCity is giving college football fans everywhere the chance to attend the bowl game of their choice in TicketCity’s Bowl Challenge.  Entering is easy, just go to TicketCity.com, search for the BCS bowl game you’d like to attend, and fill out the online entry form to pick the two teams you predict to be matched up in that bowl game.  All bowl game entries that include the correct team matchups will be entered in a random drawing.  The winner receives tickets to the bowl game they selected upon entry.  Check out the bowl games with the top entries to date.  Just click on the bowl below to make your entry or click here to select your bowl.

Jan 7 – BCS Championship – Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA

Jan 1 – Rose Bowl – Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA

Jan 2 – Cotton Bowl – Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX

Jan 1 – Sugar Bowl - Superdome, New Orleans, LA

Des 31 – Chick-fil-A Bowl – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA

Jan 4 – Fiesta Bowl – University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ

Dec 30 – Holiday Bowl – Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA

Jan 2 – Papajohns.com Bowl – Legion Field, Birmingham, AL

Jan 1 – Capital One Bowl – Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL

Dec 30 – Texas Bowl – Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX

Jan 2 – Alamo Bowl - Alamodome, San Antonio, TX

Dec 22 – Las Vegas Bowl – Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV

Jan 2 – Liberty Bowl - Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, TN

Dec 26 – Little Caesars Pizza Bowl - Ford Field, Detroit, MI

Dec 31 – Sun Bowl – Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, TX

Dec 29 – Champs Sports Bowl – Citrus Bowl, Orlando Florida

Dec 26 – Emerald Bowl – ATT Park, San Francisco, CA

Dec 26 – Meineke Car Care Bowl – Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC

Dec 27 – Music City Bowl - LP Field, Nashville, TN

Dec 20 – New Orleans Bowl - Superdome, New Orleans, LA

Jan 1 – Gator Bowl – Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, Jacksonville, FL

Jan 6 – GMAC Bowl – Ladd Peebles Stadium, Mobile, AL

Dec 28 – Independence Bowl - Independence Stadium, Shreveport, LA

Jan 5 – Orange Bowl - LandShark Stadium, Miami, FL

Jan 1 – Outback Bowl – Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL

Dec 23 – Pointsettia Bowl – Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA

Dec 30 – Roady’s Humnitarian Bowl - Bronco Stadium, Boise, ID

Whatever Bowl you’re interested in, register online now as entries are only accepted through Decemeber 4th. one bowl entry per person.  Good Luck!  And if you’d rather just buy your seats know so you can make your travel plans, of course TicketCity is here to help you out with that as well!

Our TicketCity Bowl Challenge offers you the chance to win a pair of tickets to any 2009-2010 Bowl Game.  Visit our TicketCity Bowl Game Tickets page for details on the contest and your chance to enter to win.  Everyone who correctly picks the matchup will be eligible to win.

You can win tickets to the best 2009-2010 bowl games, including; the BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl.  See your favorite college football team play in a top bowl game for FREE.  Enter today to win bowl game tickets, by clicking on the banner below.

If you do not want to wait to win, you can buy bowl game tickets today at TicketCity.  Visit our Bowl Game Tickets page or call 1.800.880.8886 to place your order.  We also have tickets available for the ACC Championship, Big 12 Championship Game and SEC Championship Game.

Miley Cyrus Returns

“Interesting Times” indeed. Not just the punchline of a purported ancient Chinese curse or a good read by Terry Prachett, it describes the movement on the top 10 in recent weeks nicely. Not that I mind, makes it easier to write these things. One thing certainly hasn’t changed, that’s Taylor Swift’s recent dominance, which continues handily through this week as well.

It is all about music and football this week. The football arrives courtesy of 2 upcoming and hotly anticipated conference championships, one for the SEC and one for the Big 12. The Big 12 is certainly anticipated locally, as Austin’s own Longhorns are a favorite to attend at this point. The SEC because, well, it’s the SEC which has a habit of producing college football’s top teams year after year.

Miley missed the countdown so much she returned at #3, while Aventura and Bon Jovi both dropped thanks to the Longhorns and their championship hopes. AC/DC makes an appearance. They’ve been on tour for a while now, but it took a show at the Frank Irwin Center to put them up on the big board. A veritable institution of rock, they’ve been touring in support of their most recent release, Black Ice, which is just over a year old at this point.

Top 25 College Football Games for Week 12

Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary market is comprised of over 800 established ticket brokers, and fans who are listing extra tickets to sell.

Check weekly for the Top 25 list and analysis of college football!

• Data is from Week of November 2, 2009
• Average Price is generated from all Secondary Market tickets listed on TicketCity.com (approx. 800 ticket brokers)
• All prices are per ticket.
• Prices are subject to change, so they may not be the same today.