List of highest-grossing concert tours
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This is an incomplete list of the highest-grossing concert tours. Some of the gross may be higher than reported on this list because not all concerts are reported. Only tours using reliable references have been added to the list.
In bold, the tours which, when completed became the highest-grossing of all time
| Rank | Actual gross | Inflation (adjusted 2012 gross) |
Artist | Tour name | Year(s) | Shows | Attendance | Average gross (millions) |
Average attendance |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $736,421,586 | $760,823,721 | U2 | U2 360° Tour | 2009–11 | 110 | 7,272,046 | 6.7 | 66,110 | [1][2] |
| 2 | $558,255,524 | $625,719,239 | The Rolling Stones | A Bigger Bang Tour | 2005–07 | 144 | 4,680,000 | 3.8 | 32,500 | [3] |
| 3 | $441,121,000 | $470,134,147 | AC/DC | Black Ice World Tour | 2008–10 | 167 | 4,846,965 | 2.6 | 29,023 | [4][5][6] |
| 4 | $407,713,266 | $441,673,561 | Madonna | Sticky & Sweet Tour | 2008–09 | 85 | 3,545,899 | 4.79 | 41,716 | [7] |
| 5 | $389,047,636 | $448,515,796 | U2 | Vertigo Tour | 2005–06 | 131 | 4,619,021 | 2.96 | 35,259 | [8] |
| 6 | $358,825,665 | $387,332,062 | The Police | The Police Reunion Tour | 2007–08 | 156 | 3,300,912 | 2.3 | 21,160 | [9] |
| 7 | $339,455,339 | $350,703,563 | Bon Jovi | The Circle Tour / Bon Jovi Live | 2010-11 | 137 | 3,442,539 | 2.5 | 25,128 | [10][11] |
| 8 | $336,017,048[e] | $468,786,069 | The Rolling Stones | Bridges To Babylon Tour / No Security Tour | 1997–99 | 143 | 5,576,032 | 2.3 | 38,993 | [12] |
| 9 | $316,365,576[f] | $482,528,321 | The Rolling Stones | Voodoo Lounge Tour | 1994–95 | 124 | 6,336,776 | 2.6 | 51,103 | [13] |
| 10 | $299,520,230 | $378,409,784 | The Rolling Stones | Licks Tour | 2002–03 | 115 | 3,470,945 | 2.6 | 30,182 | [14] |
| 11 | $279,200,000 | $302,455,840 | Celine Dion | Taking Chances Tour | 2008–09 | 132 | 3,000,000 | 2.9 | 27,424 | [15] |
| 12 | $260,000,000 | $309,395,127 | Cher | Living Proof: The Farewell Tour | 2002–05 | 325 | 3,500,000 | 0.8 | 10,800 | [16] |
| 13 | $251,112,882[g] | $267,628,928 | Eagles | Long Road Out Of Eden Tour | 2008–11 | 155 | 2,001,773 | 1.6 | 12,915 | [4][5][6][17] |
| 14 | $250,000,000 | $392,007,185 | Pink Floyd | The Division Bell Tour | 1994 | 110 | 5,500,000 | 2.3 | 45,000 | [18][19] |
| 15 | $235,000,000 | $253,669,243 | Bruce Springsteen | Magic Tour | 2007–08 | 100 | 2,198,353 | 2.4 | 21,983 | [20][citation needed] |
| 16 | $227,400,000 | $234,935,148 | Lady Gaga | The Monster Ball Tour | 2009–11 | 201 | 2,500,000 | 1.14 | 12,250 | [21] |
| 17 | $221,500,000 | $279,840,087 | Bruce Springsteen | The Rising Tour | 2002–03 | 120 | 3,232,384[a] | 1.8 | 31,081[a] | [22][23][24] |
| 18 | $217,245,629[d] | $231,534,179 | Metallica | World Magnetic Tour | 2008–10 | 187 | 2,699,211 | 1.4 | 16,976 | [25][26][5] |
| 19 | $210,650,974 | $227,385,843 | Bon Jovi | Lost Highway Tour | 2007–08 | 99 | 2,157,675 | 2.1 | 21,794 | [20] |
| 20 | $194,754,447 | $224,523,780 | Madonna | Confessions Tour | 2006 | 60 | 1,210,294 | 3.2 | 20,171 | [27] |
| 21 | $191,000,000 | $203,562,338 | Roger Waters | The Wall | 2010-11 | 120 | 1,671,360 | 1.6 | 13,264 | [28] |
| 22 | $171,677,024 | $244,792,229 | U2 | PopMart Tour | 1997–98 | 93 | 3,935,936 | 1.8 | 42,322 | [29] |
| 23 | $167,000,000 | $180,910,191 | Bruce Springsteen | Working On A Dream Tour | 2009 | 80 | 1,831,770 | 2.1 | 22,897 | [5] |
| 24 | $165,000,000 | $238,880,597 | Michael Jackson | HIStory World Tour | 1996-97 | 82 | 4,507,900 | 2.0 | 54,878 | [30] |
| 25 | $151,000,000 | $242,935,729 | U2 | Zoo TV Tour | 1992–93 | 157 | 5,350,554 | 0.96 | 34,080 | [31][32][33] |
| 26 | $150,000,000 | $162,935,132 | Pink | Funhouse Tour | 2009–10 | 163 | 2,331,756 | 1.3 | 21,461 | [25][5] |
| 27 | $142,844,463 | $187,488,391 | U2 | Elevation Tour | 2001 | 112 | 2,162,282 | 1.3 | 19,306 | [34] |
| 28 | $141,000,000 | $158,039,480 | Tim McGraw and Faith Hill | Soul2Soul II Tour | 2006–07 | 117 | 1,673,667 | 1.2 | 14,304 | [35] |
| 29 | $135,000,000 | $253,111,409 | Pink Floyd | A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour | 1988–89 | 199 | 4,250,000 | 0.68 | 21,250 | [36][37] |
| 30 | $131,388,461 | $151,471,940 | Bon Jovi | Have A Nice Day Tour | 2005-06 | 78 | 1,823,834 | 1.7 | 23,382 | [38] |
| 31 | $131,800,000 | $142,778,222 | Britney Spears | The Circus Starring Britney Spears | 2009 | 97 | 1,500,000 | 1.4 | 15,488 | [5] |
| 32 | $129,059,653 | $144,656,173 | Genesis | Turn It On Again: The Tour | 2007 | 46 | 1,262,393 | 2.8 | 27,443 | [39][40] |
| 33 | $126,165,542 | $163,023,154 | Paul McCartney | Driving USA Tour/Driving Japan Tour/Driving Mexico Tour | 2002 | 58 | 988,077 | 2.2 | 17,036 | [41][42] |
| 34 | $126,000,000 | $136,009,892 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now World Tour | 2011-12 | 94 | 1,700,000 | 1.3 | 18,085 | [43] |
| 35 | $125,000,000 | $245,638,717 | Michael Jackson | Bad World Tour | 1987-89 | 123 | 4,498,300 | 1.0 | 32,520 | [44][45] |
| 36 | $125,000,000 | $147,653,277 | Madonna | Re-Invention World Tour | 2004 | 56 | 920,000 | 2.2 | 16,071 | [46] |
Note that the inflation-adjusted ranking is only of tours listed here because of highest actual gross. Some older tours, such as Bruce Springsteen's 1984–1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour, which grossed between $80 million and $90 million at the time,[47] would be between about $190 million and $210 million in 2010 terms, and thus place on the list as well.
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