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These are the highest-grossing world tours of 2019 so far

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Elton John , Metallica and Travis Scott are among the artists who can lay claim to the highest-grossing world tours of 2019 so far.

Elton John, who is currently on his swansong with the ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour’, tops the ranking in the mid-year report released by Pollstar on Monday (July 1). The last four months of the tour’s opening North American leg, as well as the first three weeks of its 2019 run in Europe, have raked in an estimated $82.6 million (approximately £65.6 million).

Pink and Justin Timberlake follow closely behind with $81.8 million (£64.6 million) and $75.5 million (£59.9 million) in world tour earnings respectively. The next pop juggernaut on the list is Sheeran at number six, with $63.6 million (£50.5 million) in earnings. He had the highest-grossing tour of 2018 , taking in more than $429 million (£335 million) in 99 shows all over the world.

Rock and metal veterans also make strong showings, with Metallica at number four with $69.7 million (£55.3 million) and Fleetwood Mac at fifth with $67.7 million (£53.7 million). KISS , Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band also appear.

Travis Scott rounds out the top-10 list with the highest-grossing world tour for a rap artist in 2019 thus far. He took in $51.7 million (£40 million). Other hip-hop acts on the full list of the 100 highest-grossing tours include Eminem , Post Malone , Bad Bunny and Drake .

Artists with the 25 highest-grossing tours of 2019 so far are: 1. Elton John 2. Pink 3. Justin Timberlake 4. Metallica 5. Fleetwood Mac 6. Ed Sheeran 7. KISS 8. Trans-Siberian Orchestra 9. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 10. Travis Scott 11. Cher 12. Eric Church 13. Mumford & Sons 14. BTS 15. Michael Bublé 16. Paul McCartney 17. Garth Brooks 18. Eminem 19. Ariana Grande 20. Post Malone 21. André Rieu 22. Phil Collins 23. Luis Miguel 24. Billy Joel 25. Shawn Mendes

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Ed Sheeran Sets Record For Highest-Grossing Tour

On Friday, musician Ed Sheeran broke the record for the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, beating U2's mark.

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Pro Sound News Centerstage Chart: Top Tours of 2019

Pro Sound News runs down the crews and gear on the top 10 highest-grossing tours of 2019.

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Top 10 highest-grossing U.S. tours of 2019, as ranked by Pollstar . Some tours did not report grosses for all shows; rankings may be affected as a result. Equipment and crew information are provided by the respective sound reinforcement companies.

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Metallica And KISS Amongst The Highest-Grossing Tours Of 2019

KISS and Metallica sit alongside Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande as this year's top earners from touring

Music industry publication Billboard have released the charts for the highest-grossing tours of 2019 , which include Metallica and KISS in the top ten.

Unsurprisingly, Ed Sheeran has taken the number one spot, grossing over $223m across 54 shows, playing to over 2.5m fans.

The charts are based on tours played between November 1 2018 and October 31 2019.

Metallica played to 1.7m fans across 46 shows, grossing over $177m. KISS played 72 shows to over 855,000 fans, which pulled in over $88m.

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twenty one pilots also appeared in the top 40 highest-grossing tour list. The pair grossed almost $50m from 62 shows, played to over 725,000 fans.

In terms of the venues that pulled in the most fans and most money, New York's Madison Square Garden topped the 15,000+ capacity category, while the SSE Hydro in Glasgow topped the 10,000-15,000 capacity group.

Here are the 20 highest-grossing tours of 2019:

1. Ed Sheeran 2. Pink 3. BTS 4. Elton John 5. The Rolling Stones 6. Metallica 7. Ariana Grande 8. Paul McCartney 9. Backstreet Boys 10. KISS 11. Cher 12. Shawn Mendes 13. Michael Buble 14. Jonas Brothers 15. Spice Girls 16. Billy Joel 17. Post Malone 18. Justin Timberlake 19. Eagles 20. Hugh Jackman

Metallica brought their WorldWired tour to the biggest venues of Europe this summer, which saw them headline such iconic venues as Twickenham Stadium in London and Olympiastadion in Berlin.

The thrash legends have already announced their plans summer 2020: they will be be playing two headlining sets at Danny Wimmer festivals across the United States .

Catch Metallica at one of the following next year:

• Epicenter - May 1-3 - Concord, North Carolina
• Welcome To Rockville - May 8-10 - Daytona Beach, Florida
• Sonic Temple - May 15-17 - Columbus, Ohio
• Louder Than Life - Sept 18-20 - Louisville, Kentucky
• Aftershock - October 9-11 - Sacramento, California

KISS, on the other hand, are preparing to bid farewell to touring, having announced their final ever UK show for next year's Download festival on June 12-14. Get your tickets here .

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KISS Had the Highest-Grossing Hard Rock Tour of the Year in North America

KISS may not be able to draw an audience of sharks , but the rockers can undoubtedly pull big numbers when it comes to people. According to Pollstar's 2019 year-end special, the group's " End of the Road " tour was the highest-grossing hard rock or heavy metal tour of the year in North America.

Indeed, among the publication's Top 200 North American Tours for the year, KISS are the only hard rock or metal act among the Top 10. The " Rock and Roll All Nite " songsters played 67 concerts in as many cities in 2019, with total tickets sold at 800,302. The average amount sold at each gig was 11,945.

Those sales led to an average ticket price of $101.94 and an average gross of $1,217,650. That puts KISS at No. 7 on the list of highest-grossing North American tours, just underneath pop acts such as Pink , Ariana Grande and the Jonas Brothers . The Top 3 were the Rolling Stones , Elton John and Bob Seger .

Naturally, the numbers are a little bit different worldwide . When the entire globe gets taken into account, Metallica had the highest-grossing hard rock or metal tour of 2019. See Pollstar's Top 10 rankings for both the North American and worldwide tours down toward the bottom of this post.

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Pollstar 2019 Top 10 North American Tours

1. The Rolling Stones ($177.8M gross; 784,652 tickets sold) 2. Elton John ($157.4M gross; 1,155,510 tickets sold) 3. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band ($97.0M gross;, 867,925 tickets sold) 4. Pink ($87.9M gross; 624,419 tickets sold) 5. Ariana Grande ($82.6M gross; 700,053 tickets sold) 6. Jonas Brothers ($81.7M gross; 769,310 tickets sold) 7. KISS ($81.6 M gross; 800,302 tickets sold) 8. Fleetwood Mac ($77.5M gross; 544,286 tickets sold) 9. Garth Brooks ($76.1M gross; 856,000 tickets sold) 10. Justin Timberlake ($75.6M gross; 568,449 tickets sold)

Pollstar 2019 Top 10 Worldwide Tours

1. Pink ($215.2M gross; 1,818,933 tickets sold) 2. Elton John ($212.0 gross; 1,566,241 tickets sold) 3. Ed Sheeran ($211.7M gross; 2,455,718 tickets sold) 4. Metallica ($179.0M gross; 1,742,908 tickets sold) 5. The Rolling Stones ($177.8M gross; 784,652 tickets sold) 6. BTS ($170.3M gross; 1,334,325 tickets sold) 7. Bon Jovi ($134.2M gross; 1,310,860 tickets sold) 8. Ariana Grande ($118.3M gross; 1,096,462 tickets sold) 9. Michael Bublé ($115.8M gross; 1,002,363 tickets sold) 10. Fleetwood Mac ($112.2M gross; 795,371 tickets sold)

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The World's Highest Grossing Tours of 2023

According to analysts at Pollstar, total grosses for the top 100 tours that year were up 46 percent from $6.28 billion in 2022 to $9.17 billion last year. Attendance figures were also up, rising from 59 million to 70 million - an increase of 18.4 percent.

The following chart is based on data collected by Pollstar on the world’s highest grossing tours of 2023. It reveals that at the top of this list, comes Taylor Swift with her record-breaking “ Eras Tour ” - the first ever to break the $1 billion mark - which visited 60 stadiums in total. It was followed by Beyoncé’s “Renaissance Tour”, which grossed some $580 million in 56 shows and Bruce Springsteen’s “Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour” which grossed $380 million across 66 venues.

Ticket prices for the top 8 grossing worldwide tours ranged between an average of $105.16 for an Ed Sheeran ticket to more than double that for Taylor Swift - $238.95.

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Beyoncé could blow away other artists for top-grossing tour

By Elizabeth Napolitano

May 12, 2023 / 12:23 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have blown past music industry records before, picking up dozens of Grammy awards and smashing streaming numbers . So, it shouldn't be any surprise that both pop stars are also on track to break another record — the highest-grossing concerts of all-time.  

Beyoncé could rake in more than $2 billion from her "Renaissance" world tour, which kicked off this week and includes 57 shows, projections show. Taylor Swift, who is also touring this year, could similarly surpass the billion-dollar mark. The country-pop singer's 20-city nationwide "Eras" tour, with 52 shows, is expected to gross a whopping $1.6 billion, Forbes reported. 

The projections are based on "the most optimistic assumptions of the number of fans buying tickets" and assume an average ticket price of $700, the publication said.  

But, while the pop queens' earnings could far exceed those of their peers, they're not the only ones raking in concert cash. 

Billboard Boxscore, a report that tracks live entertainment receipts, shows the top five highest-earning music tours of all-time have earned a staggering $635.6 million on average. 

Here is a list of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, according to Billboard Boxscore. The list has been edited to exclude tours, such as Elton John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour," that are currently ongoing or that had repeated runs.

1. Ed Sheeran "The ÷ (Divide) Tour" (2017-19)

Based off Sheeran's third album, The Divide Tour grossed $776 million over the course of 258 shows attended by 8.9 million people. 

2. U2 "360° Tour" (2009-11)

The seven-leg world tour promoting the Irish band's 12th album grossed $736 million for 110 shows attended by 7.3 million concertgoers. 

3. Guns N' Roses "Not in This Lifetime Tour" (2016-19)

The hard-rock band's most recent tour raked in $584 million for 158 shows across the world, with 5.4 million people turning out to see them perform. 

4. The Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang Tour" (2005-07)

The iconic rock band's tour grossed $558 million for 147 shows that brought out 3.5 million fans. The tour —one of the last before the passing of founding member, Charlie Watts — held the top spot, before being  outgrossed  by U2's "360° Tour."

5. Coldplay "A Head Full of Dreams Tour" (2016-17)

The British rock band's five-continent tour to promote its seventh album pulled in $524 million in gross revenue over 115 shows attended by 5.4 million concertgoers. 

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Elizabeth Napolitano is a freelance reporter at CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and technology news. She also writes for CoinDesk. Before joining CBS, she interned at NBC News' BizTech Unit and worked on The Associated Press' web scraping team.

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Top 15 biggest concerts ever with the largest crowd as of 2024

Attending music concerts is a way of expressing love for music and appreciation for artists. Over the years, music concerts have attracted many fans. So, what are the biggest concerts ever as of 2024?

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1. rod stewart’s new year’s eve concert (1994) - 4.2 million, 2. jean michael jarre’s 850th anniversary of the moscow concert (1997) - 3.5 million, 3. jorge ben jor’s new year’s eve concert (1993) - 3 million, 4. jean michael jarre’s bastille day concert (1990) - 2.5 million, 5. love parade festival (2008) - 1.6 million, 6. monsters of rock concert (1991) - 1.6 million, 7. the rolling stones' bigger bang concert (2006) - 1.5 million, 8. jean michael jarre's rende-vous houston concert (1986) - 1.3 million, 9. diana ross worldwide from new york: for one and for all (1983) - 1.2 million, 10. paz sin fronteras concert ii (2009) - 1.1 million, 11. jean michael jarre's bastille day concert (1979) - 1 million, 12. antonello venditti's scudetto victory concert for a.s. roma (2001) - 1 million, 13. the pol’and’rock festival (2019) - 1 million, 14. statue of liberty weekend concert (1986) - 800,000, 15. isle of wight festival (1970) - 700,000, summary list of the biggest concerts ever, what was the biggest concert ever, which is the largest paying audience for a concert, which is the largest attendance at a music festival, what is the most attended tour of all time, what is the most successful concert in the world, who has sold the most concert tickets ever, what is the world record for most concerts in a year, which are the biggest benefit concerts ever.

Rod Stewart held the biggest concert in the world . Rolling Stones are among the many music artists and bands that have secured sizeable crowds at their concerts. Some of their events have made it to The Guinness Book of Records' list of the largest crowds at a concert.

Top 15 biggest concerts ever as of 2024

Besides bringing people together, music concerts are also a good way to enjoy spectacular performances. In music history, several record-breaking concert attendances have been recorded. Below is a list of the largest crowds at a music concert in history.

• Artist: Rod Stewart
• Event: New Year’s Eve Concert
• Venue: Copacabana Beach
• Location: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• Date: December 31, 1994
• Attendees: 4.2 million

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Rod Stewart's 1994 New Year’s Eve Concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro is the biggest concert in history. It had 4.2 million people and was free. The legendary Rod Stewart brought the roof down through his performance. The concert holds the top spot in the Guinness Book of Records. It was the largest open-air concert in history.

• Artist: Jean Michel Jarre
• Event: 850th anniversary of the Moscow Concert
• Venue: State University of Moscow
• Location: Moscow, Russia
• Date: September 6, 1997
• Attendees: 3.5 million

Moscow city is not only ancient, but it is also very large. Every year they hold festivities to celebrate its anniversary. The 850th Moscow Concert anniversary in 1997 was recorded as one of the biggest concerts ever in history.

Jean Michael Jarre performed at the Moscow State University to about 3.5 million people. This was indeed a next-level birthday celebration for Moscow city.

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• Artist: Jorge Ben Jor
• Date: December 31, 1993
• Attendees: 3 million

Copacabana Beach is excitingly famous worldwide for hosting the most attended concerts in history. The 4-kilometre-long beach can hold legendary concerts.

On December 31, 1993, this was proven when Jorge Ben Jor hosted a New Year’s Eve Concert. The beach accommodated about 3 million people. This was the first concert to cross the 3 million mark threshold.

• Artist: Jean Michael Jarr
• Event: Bastille Day Concert
• Venue: La Défense
• Location: Paris, France
• Date: July 14, 1990
• Attendees: 2.5 million

Jean Michael Jarre turned the La Defense district at the heart of Paris into an entertainment centre on July 14, 1990. This particular national holiday celebration remains one of the most iconic days.

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The 1990 Bastille Day Concert by Jean Michael Jarre ranks fourth on the list of largest crowds in history. The concert attracted more than 2 million people.

• Artist: Various DJs and musicians
• Event: Love Parade Festival
• Venue: Westfalenhallen
• Location: Dortmund, Germany
• Date: July 19, 2008
• Attendees: 1.6 million

Although the event always attracts a large crowd, the 2008 Love Parade Festival hit a record-breaking of 1.6 million attendees.

They were entertained by Anja Schneider, Armin van Buuren, Audion, Carl Craig, DJ Hell, Dubfire, Felix Kröcher, Italoboyz, M.A.N.D.Y., The Märtini Brös & the Strings of Love orchestra, Paul Van Dyk, Richie Hawtin, and Underworld.

Dortmund City turned into an outdoor party area. Every year the crowds come out to participate in the parade.

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• Artists: Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera, E.S.T., The Black Crowes
• Event: Monsters of Rock Concert
• Venue: Tushino Airfield
• Location: Moscow, Soviet Union
• Date: September 28, 1991

The 1.6 million heavy metal music fans attended the annual Monsters of Rock Concert in 1991, even though Moscow was in the middle of political turmoil and the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapsing.

The concert had the biggest crowd ever, and it featured several bands like AC/DC, Metallica and Pantera. It was AC/DC's largest concert crowd ever.

• Artist: The Rolling Stones
• Event: Bigger Bang Concert
• Date: February 18, 2006
• Attendees: 1.5 million

The Copacabana Beach appears again on the list of the top 10 biggest concerts ever. The Rolling Stones had their Bigger Banger Concert on February 18, 2006, and put on a spectacular performance for 1.5 million people.

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• Event: Rende-vous Houston Concert
• Venue: Downtown Houston
• Location: Houston, Texas, United States
• Date: April 5, 1986
• Attendees: 1.3 million

Jean Michael Jarre held the Guinness world record for some time. His Rende-vous Houston Concert pulled 1.3 million people in downtown Houston on April 5, 1986.

Jean Michael Jarre performed in skyscrapers giving one spectacular performance. In line with the release of the Rendezvous album, the concert was also in celebration of the Space Challenger shuttle.

• Artist: Diana Ross
• Event: Diana Ross Worldwide from New York
• Venue: Great Lawn, Central Park
• Location: New York City
• Date: July 21, 1983
• Attendees: 1.2 million

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The Diana Ross: For One and For All Concert was a massive event, with an estimated attendance of 1.2 million people. It was intended to celebrate the culmination of Diana Ross's successful world tour.

The live event was organized with a charitable purpose, allocating 7.5 per cent of its proceeds to the restoration of a Central Park Playground near West 81st Street. Diana Ross expressed that this initiative fulfilled a long-standing dream of hers to actively contribute to such a project.

• Artists: Juanes (headliner) and various artists
• Event: Paz sin Fronteras II
• Venue: Plaza de la Revolución
• Location: Havana, Cuba
• Date: September 20, 2009
• Attendees: 1.1 million

Paz Sin Fronteras Concert II means The peace without borders concerts. Colombia's musician , Juanes, organized these free outdoor concerts to campaign for peace among the South American countries.

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The concerts also featured several internationally recognized artists . The Paz Sin Fronteras Concert II was hosted at the La Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, and 1.1 million people were in attendance.

• Venue: Place de la Concorde
• Date: July 14, 1979
• Attendees: 1 million

Jean Michael Jarre's first performance was during the Bastille Day celebrations on July 14, 1979. As he had immense popularity, the concert attracted about one million people.

The attendance put a new record in the Guinness Book of Records at that time. More than 40 years later, Jean Michael Jarre’s first-ever outdoor performance at Place De La Concorde is still cheered upon.

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• Artist: Antonello Venditti
• Event: A.S. Roma's scudetto victory concert
• Venue: Circus Maximus
• Location: Rome, Italy
• Date: June 24, 2001

Many in Rome were ecstatic when the Associazione Sportiva Roma soccer team (A.S. Roma) won its third scudetto (national football championships) in 2001.

A.S. Roma invited Italian singer/songwriter Antonello Venditti (one of the biggest singers in Italy at that time) to perform at the Circus Maximus. He performed for more than a million people, making it to the list of the largest crowd at a concert.

• Artist: The Black Eyed Peas and various musicians
• Event: Pol’And’Rock Festival or Woodstock Festival Poland
• Venue: Przystanek Woodstock
• Location: Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland
• Date: August 3, 2019

The Pol’And’Rock festival (otherwise called the Woodstock Festival Poland ) started in 1995. The 2019 festival was the largest in the history of this event. It had around a million attendees, and the headliners included The Black Eyed Peas, Ziggy Marley, and the Prophets of Rage.

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• Artist: Johnny Cash, John Denver, Yo Yo Ma, Placido Domingo and more
• Event: Statue of Liberty Weekend Concert
• Venue: Lincoln Center, Central Park Great Lawn, Governor’s Island
• Date: July 3,4, 5,6, 1986
• Attendees: 800k

The Statue of Liberty Weekend Concert marked a four-day festivity commemorating the 1984 restoration and the centennial of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in New York City.

Commencing on July 3, 1986, and concluding on July 6, the weekend featured musical presentations that surpassed conventional concert expectations. The diverse events showcased a spectrum of genres, including Americana, classical, swing, and pop spanning generations.

• Artists: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Joni Mitchel, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Caetano Veloso, Black Widow and more
• Event: Isle of Wight Festival
• Venue: Afton Down Terrain
• Location: Afton Down
• Date: From August 26 to August 31, 1970
• Attendees: 700k

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The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 was a historic music event that took place on the Isle of Wight in England. Held from August 26 to 31, the festival attracted a massive audience and featured an iconic lineup of musical acts. Notable performers included Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, and many others.

The festival's attendance was estimated to be over 700,000 people, making it one of the largest music gatherings of its time. It is particularly remembered for Jimi Hendrix's electrifying performance.

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Rod Stewart's New Year's Eve performance at Copacabana Beach in 1994 holds the current world record for the largest concert ever. It was a free event, and around 4.2 million people attended.

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The Donauinselfest 2016 festival holds the record for the largest attendance at a music festival. The free and open-air festival attracted about 3.1 million fans. As a result, the annual festival in Vienna has gained popularity. It continuously attracts larger crowds and international artists.

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Madonna Is Only Woman to Achieve This Boxscore Feat as The Celebration Tour Wraps

The career-spanning trek swept through sold-out arenas in Europe and North America, becoming her sixth tour to gross $100 million or more.

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Madonna played the final shows of The Celebration Tour, closing her six-month trek with $225.4 million and 1.1 million tickets sold over 80 shows, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore .

The Celebration Tour is Madonna’s sixth trek to gross more than $100 million. The only other acts to achieve this are the Eagles , The Rolling Stones , Bruce Springsteen and U2 , making her the sole woman in this elite group.

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By year’s end, Madonna played three shows in Brooklyn and two in Washington, D.C., before resuming the North American leg with 42 more shows from January through April. In the U.S. and Canada, she earned $133.1 million and sold 616,000 tickets, sending the tour’s total figures beyond $200 million and 1 million tickets.

Finally, Madonna went to Latin America for the first time since 2016, as part of the Rebel Heart Tour. Five shows at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes grossed $14.8 million and sold 82,400 tickets.

In all, The Celebration Tour’s $225 million finish marks Madonna’s highest-grossing tour in over a decade. While in Europe, it surpassed her theater experiment on the Madame X Tour ($51.5 million in 2019-20). And during her North American leg, she partied past the Rebel Heart Tour’s $169.8 million from 2015-16.

Madonna’s recent high dates back to 2012’s MDNA Tour, which grossed $305.2 million and sold 2.2 million tickets. That trek played many of the same American arenas as The Celebration Tour, but took her to Europe’s outsized outdoor stadiums, plus a lengthier stadium run throughout Latin America. Her biggest tour ever was the one before that, earning $407.7 million from 3.5 million tickets on the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008-09).

That average attendance is missing an obvious asterisk. After playing her final show in Mexico City, Madonna staged a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marking her first stop in the city since a Dec. 2, 2012, performance on the MDNA Tour. The show’s gargantuan success does not factor into her official Boxscore results because it was a free event, but it’s plenty worth noting that she drew 1.6 million people – roughly 40% more than the combined attendance of her entire tour. According to concert promoter Live Nation, it’s the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert by any artist in history.

The Celebration Tour pushes Madonna’s reported career total to $1.6 billion and – without accounting for the Brazil show – 12.8 million tickets.

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