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Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” is at the top of the chart for ticket sales of musical, theatre and sports events for the week ending May 16.

Ticket sales tracking company TicketNews announced Waters was #1 on its Top Combined Events  chart.

“The Wall” show has a huge lead over #2 on the list — with a 13.19 “power score” over the 4.83 score of Broadway show “Wicked.” Lady Gaga is third at 2.48; Justin Bieber is in fourth place at 2.29.

None of this is news to people who logged on at 10 a.m. May 10 when “Wall” tickets went on sale. Waters immediately sold-out many venues, and added a dozen shows to the tour by the end of the day to help meet demand.

TicketNews’ scores are based on sales from the TicketNetwork Exchange, the world’s largest secondary market exchange. Total ticket sales from the given event and total ticket sales within the category are used to calculate power scores.

On top of the eight new Roger Waters shows we told you about this morning (“Eight shows added to “Wall” tour”), another four have now been added to his “Wall” tour in four venues:

1. Sept. 23, United Center, Chicago, Ill.
2. Nov. 11, Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
3. Nov. 30, Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
4. Dec. 14, Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.

Ticket for these shows go on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m., local time.

Eight shows were immediately added to Roger Water’s tour of “The Wall” once general tickets went on sale this morning:

1. Sep 18, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2. Oct 1, TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
3. Oct 6, Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.
4. Oct 13, Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, N.Y.
5. Oct 20, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
6. Nov 4, Izod Center, East Rutherford, N.J.
7. Nov 14, BankAtlantic Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
8. Dec 8, HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif.

Tickets are on sale of all of these additional venues.

General tickets for Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” went on sale this morning at 10. If our experience buying tickets for his Montreal shows coming up Oct. 19-20 is any indicator, sales are brisk.

The first date sold out within 20 minutes, along with many sections for the second show.

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Roger Waters has announced the band that will tour with him during his performances of “The Wall” later this year.

Drums:
Graham Broad

Guitars:
Dave Kilminster
G.E. Smith
Snowy White

Keyboards:
Jon Carin
Harry Waters

Lead vocals:
Robbie Wyckoff

Backing vocals:
Jon Joyce
Mark Lennon
Michael Lennon
Kipp Lennon

Smith, Wyckoff, and the Lennons (all cousins) are new to Waters’ lineup. Wyckoff will be singing lead vocals originally handled by David Gilmour.

Harry Waters is Roger’s son.

Roger Waters’ 35-date North American tour of “The Wall” announced yesterday will continue to Europe.

The news is contained in what is practically a footnote to a story posted at cbsnews.com yesterday.

The North American leg of the tour begins in Toronto Sept. 15 and concludes in Anaheim, Calif., on Dec. 15.

CBS also says the tour is likely to be Waters’ last. “I’m not as young as I used to be. I’m not like B.B. King, or Muddy Waters,” he says in the story.

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters announced today he’ll tour Pink Floyd’s magnum opus “The Wall” in North America this fall.

The tour begins Sept. 15 in Toronto and concludes Dec. 13 in Anaheim, Calif.

Details of the tour are to be posted at the official Roger Waters Web site at 2 p.m. EDT. AOL’s Spinner site posted an exclusive story this morning.

Here’s the itinerary, so far:

(Addendum, April 20: Dates may change; visit the official Roger Waters site for current dates.)

1. September 15: Toronto — Air Canada Centre
2. September 20: Chicago — United Center
3. September 21: Chicago — United Center
4. September 26: Pittsburgh — Consol Energy Center
5. September 28: Cleveland — Quicken Loans Arena
6. September 30: Boston — TD Garden
7. October 5: New York — Madison Square Garden
8. October 8: Buffalo — HSBC Arena
9. October 10: Washington DC — Verizon Center
10. October 12: Uniondale — Nassau Coliseum
11. October 15: Hartford — XL Center
12. October 17: Ottawa — ScotiaBank Place
13. October 19: Montreal — Bell Centre
14. October 22: Columbus — Schottenstein Center
15. October 24: Detroit — Palace of Auburn Hills
16. October 26: Omaha — Qwest Center
17. October 27: St Paul — Xcel Energy Center
18. October 29: St. Louis — Scottrade Center
19. October 30: Kansas City — Sprint Center
20. November 3: New York — Izod Center
21. November 8: Philadelphia — Wachovia Center
22. November 9: Philadelphia — Wachovia Center
23. November 13: Fort Lauderdale — Bank Atlantic Center
24. November 16: Tampa — St. Pete Times Forum
25. November 18: Atlanta — Philips Arena
26. November 20: Houston — Toyota Center
27. November 21: Dallas — American Airlines Center
28. November 23: Denver — Pepsi Center
29. November 26: Las Vegas —MGM Grand Garden Arena
30. November 27: Phoenix — US Airways Center
31. November 29: Los Angeles — The Forum
32. December 6: San Jose — HP Pavilion
33. December 10: Vancouver —General Motors Place
34. December 11: Tacoma — Tacoma Dome
35. December 13: Anaheim — Honda Cente

Waters was quoted in stories at the time of the 30th anniversary of “The Wall” last November that he’d like to launch a tour of “The Wall.” Due to expense and staging complexities, Pink Floyd’s original tour in 1980/81 only played a handful of venues around the world.

Waters also performed “The Wall” with an all-star cast of more than 100 on July 21, 1990, at Germany’s Potzdamer Platz, site of the former Berlin Wall. Nearly a half-million people attended the show, which was a charity event for the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. That concert was turned into an album and concert video, “The Wall Live in Berlin.”

The last time Waters was out, he performed Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety.

We’re expecting an announcement of tour dates on the official Web site of Roger Waters in about five hours.

The site’s design, revamped in the last 24-48 hours, seems to indicate speculation the tour will be of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album “The Wall” is true.

Details and dates are supposed to be posted at 2 p.m. EDT.