The Script listed in top 100 Grossing Tours

The figures from trade industry journal, Pollstar show that One Direction ranked 10th in Pollstar’s top 100 worldwide touring artists beating off the likes of The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, Elton John and Paul McCartney.

Pop stars who did better than One Direction in box office receipts last year include Rihanna, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Bon Jovi — who topped the rankings with $259.5m in receipts. 

 With U2 not touring last year, the figures show that the only Irish band to make the top 100 in terms of worldwide grossing tours was The Script, led by Danny O’Donoghue, from Dublin. 

The figures show the band’s concerts generated $15.1m at the box office with a total of 294,404 paying to see the group at 28 concerts in 23 cities that included three sold-out gigs at Dublin’s O2.

The band — ranked 97 in the top 100 grossing tours — generated box office receipts of $656,522 per gig. 

The figures show that One Direction had the cheapest tickets of the top 10 touring groups at $63.29 — almost half the $111 punters paid to see Beyonce.

Source: Irish Examiner / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net

Danny O'Donoghue's Accent, Most alluring

Shuuutuup! – Essex accent voted least attractive 

The Essex accent, made famous by the likes of Amy Childs and Mark Wright has been voted the least attractive in a new poll. 

The survey, conducted by online casino RoxyPalace.com, asked 1000 people to name their favourite British Isles accent with the Essex twang coming last with just one per cent of the vote. 

The Irish accent proved the most popular with more than a quarter (28 per cent) naming it as the most alluring. There was particular support amongst female voters with many giving celebrity examples such as the Script's Danny O'Donoghue and One Direction's Niall Horan as the reasons for their choice. 

The West Country accent scored surprisingly well coming second with just under one fifth of the vote (19 per cent). 

Geordies were voted as having the third best accent (17 per cent) with many citing popular celebrities such as Cheryl Cole and Ant and Dec as a justification of their decision. 

Mancunian came fourth (11 per cent), followed closely by the Glaswegian (8 per cent), Scouse (6 per cent) and Yorkshire (5 per cent) accents. 

The Welsh accent sported by celebrities including Sir Tom Jones and Gethin Jones scored surprisingly poorly, coming in eighth with just three per cent of the vote. 

The famous Brummie accent, spoken by the likes of Frank Skinner and Ozzy Osbourne came second bottom with just two per cent of respondents ranking it as their favourite. 

Roxy Palace said "We found that many people choose which accents the prefer based on who their favourite celebrities are."

"It's also no shock that the Irish accent came top, it's melodic, out of the ordinary and has something of the loveable rogue quality to it. 

1. Irish - 28% 

2. West Country – 19% 

3. Geordie – 17% 

4. Mancunian – 11% 

5. Glaswegian – 8% 

6. Scouse – 6% 

7. Yorkshire – 5% 

8. Welsh – 3% 

9. Brummie – 2% 

10. Essex – 1% 

Source: Totally Essex / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net 

Celebrity man watch 2012

Cosmopolitan magazines' hot 100 celebrity men through 2012

Danny O'Donoghue

Danny O'Donoghue is one of our fave judges on The Voice and, we have to admit, that's purely based on his heart-flipping good looks! Do you think the man who can't be moved looks amazing in his Diesel ensemble? We DEFINITELY do...

See the whole list of sexy men  HERE 

(Please note they are not in any particular order, They are not 1 - 100) 

Souce: Cosmopolitan / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net