List of highest-grossing concert tours

For the most-attended concert tours, see List of most-attended concert tours.

The following is a list of concert tours that have generated the most gross income. The data and rankings come largely from reports made by trade publications Billboard and Pollstar. Billboard, which launched the boxscore ranking in 1975 through Amusement Business, has featured the ranking on its own magazine since October 3, 1981.^[1] Pollstar began reporting data on November 29, 1981,^[2] but it has relatively little information about pre-2000 tours.^[3] In the 21st century, tour revenue skyrocketed, as record sales collapsed and musicians began relying on live shows for their income.^[4]

The Eras Tour by Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing tour of all time.

The first tours to surpass $100 million were Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour and Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour, both running from 1987 until 1989. Tina Turner became the first female act to achieve the feat, with her Wildest Dreams Tour (1996–1997). Pollstar estimated that Taylor Swift's Eras Tour was the first to collect $1 billion in 2023,^[5][6] though Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour became the first to officially report the number in August 2024.^[7] The Eras Tour concluded in December 2024 with $2.07 billion, becoming the first tour to reach $2 billion.^[8]

The Rolling Stones set the all-time record for touring revenue three times (1990, 1995 and 2006), more than any other act. Their Voodoo Lounge Tour remained the highest-grossing tour of all time for 11 years (1995–2006), longer than any other record-holder. They are the only musicians to achieve the highest-grossing tour of the decade twice, in the 1990s and the 2000s. The Rolling Stones and U2 have mounted the highest-grossing tour of the year eight times each, more than any other act. Some of the highest-grossing tours had extensive schedules. Inside the Top 20, Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road is the longest (330 shows in five years), while Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour is the shortest (56 shows in a single year).

Highest-grossing tours

Key

†	Indicates ongoing tour
*	Indicates tour with dates split between two different calendar decades

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  Coldplay on the Music of the Spheres World Tour
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  Elton John on the Farewell Yellow Brick Road
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  Ed Sheeran on the ÷ Tour

Top 20 highest-grossing tours of all time

Rank	Peak	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollars)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	1	$2,077,618,725	$2,077,618,725	Taylor Swift	The Eras Tour	2023–2024	149	$13,943,750	[8]
2	2	$1,300,000,000	$1,300,000,000	Coldplay	Music of the Spheres World Tour †	2022–2025	194	$6,701,031	[9]
3	1	$939,100,000	$969,152,021	Elton John	Farewell Yellow Brick Road	2018–2023	330	$2,845,758	[10]
4	1	$776,200,000	$954,615,879	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	2017–2019	255	$3,043,922	[11]
5	1	$736,421,586	$1,029,356,149	U2	360° Tour	2009–2011	110	$6,694,742	[12]
6	6	$729,700,000	$729,700,000	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	2023–2025 Tour	2023–2025	129	$5,656,589	[13]
7	6	$666,000,000	$666,000,000	Ed Sheeran	+–=÷× Tour †	2022–2025	144	$4,625,000	[14]
8	8	$635,500,000	$635,500,000	The Weeknd	After Hours til Dawn Tour †	2022–2025	102	$6,230,392	[15]
9	4	$617,325,000	$637,079,939	Harry Styles	Love On Tour	2021–2023	169	$3,652,811	[16]
10	8	$584,700,000	$584,700,000	Pink	Summer Carnival	2023–2024	97	$6,027,835	[17]
11	7	$584,200,000	$718,483,119	Guns N' Roses	Not in This Lifetime... Tour	2016–2019	158	$3,697,468	[18]
12	7	$579,879,268	$598,435,911	Beyoncé	Renaissance World Tour	2023	56	$10,353,571	[19]
13	1	$558,255,524	$846,566,594	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	2005–2007	144	$3,876,774	[20]
14	5	$546,500,000	$634,149,392	The Rolling Stones	No Filter Tour	2017–2021	58	$9,422,414	[21]
15	3	$523,033,675	$670,940,157	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour	2016–2017	114	$4,588,015	[22]
16	3	$459,000,000	$619,584,429	Roger Waters	The Wall Live	2010–2013	219	$2,094,401	[23]
17	3	$441,900,000	$637,191,073	AC/DC	Black Ice World Tour	2008–2010	165	$2,678,182	[24]
18	8	$430,000,000	$528,838,995	Metallica	WorldWired Tour	2016–2019	143	$3,006,993	[25]
19	18	$424,000,000	$424,000,000	G.E.M.	I Am Gloria World Tour †	2023–2025	86	$4,930,233	[26]
20	2	$411,000,000	$602,379,246	Madonna	Sticky & Sweet Tour	2008–2009	85	$4,835,294	[3]

Timeline of the highest-grossing tour

Timeline of the highest-grossing tour record

Established	Artist	Tour title	Record-setting gross	Ref.
1984	The Jacksons	Victory Tour	$75,000,000	[27]
1985	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	Born in the U.S.A. Tour	$90,000,000	[28]
1989	Michael Jackson	Bad World Tour	$125,000,000	[29]
	Pink Floyd	A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour	$135,000,000	[30]
1990	The Rolling Stones	Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour	$175,000,000	[31]
1994	Pink Floyd	The Division Bell Tour	$250,000,000	[32]
1995	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour	$320,000,000	[33]
2006	U2	Vertigo Tour	$333,000,000	[34]
	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	$437,000,000	[35]
2007			$558,255,524	[20]
2011	U2	360° Tour	$736,421,586	[12]
2019	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	$776,200,000	[11]
2023	Elton John	Farewell Yellow Brick Road	$939,100,000	[10]
	Taylor Swift	The Eras Tour	$1,039,263,762	[5]
2024			$2,077,618,725	[8]

Highest-grossing tours by decade

1980s

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  Pink Floyd on the Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour
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  Michael Jackson on the Bad World Tour
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  David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour

Top 10 highest-grossing tours of the 1980s

Rank	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollar)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	$135,000,000	$342,446,980	Pink Floyd	A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour	1987–1989	197	$685,279	[30]
2	$125,000,000	$317,080,537	Michael Jackson	Bad World Tour	1987–1989	123	$1,016,260	[29]
3	$98,000,000	$248,591,141	The Rolling Stones	Steel Wheels Tour	1989 *	60	$1,633,333	[36]
4	$90,000,000	$263,121,906	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	Born in the U.S.A. Tour	1984–1985	156	$576,923	[28]
5	$86,000,000	$238,024,019	David Bowie	Glass Spider Tour	1987	86	$1,000,000	[37]
6	$75,000,000	$226,993,914	The Jacksons	Victory Tour	1984	55	$1,363,636	[27]
7	$60,000,000	$166,063,269	Genesis	Invisible Touch Tour	1986–1987	111	$540,541	[38]
8	$60,000,000	$159,521,666	Tina Turner	Break Every Rule World Tour	1987–1988	220	$272,727	[39]
9	$56,000,000	$154,992,384	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour	1987	109	$513,761	[40]
10	$50,000,000	$172,931,918	The Rolling Stones	The Rolling Stones American Tour 1981	1981	50	$1,000,000	[41]

1990s

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  The Rolling Stones on the Voodoo Lounge Tour
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  U2 on the PopMart Tour
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  Michael Jackson on the HIStory World Tour

Top 10 highest-grossing tours of the 1990s

Rank	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollar)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	$320,000,000	$660,336,318	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour	1994–1995	129	$2,480,620	[33]
2	$274,000,000	$528,588,403	The Rolling Stones	Bridges to Babylon Tour	1997–1998	108	$2,537,037	[42]
3	$250,000,000	$530,365,963	Pink Floyd	The Division Bell Tour	1994	110	$2,272,727	[32]
4	$173,610,864	$336,272,021	U2	PopMart Tour	1997–1998	93	$1,866,783	[43]
5	$165,000,000	$323,193,408	Michael Jackson	HIStory World Tour	1996–1997	83	$1,987,952	[44]
6	$152,900,000	$306,546,170	Eagles	Hell Freezes Over Tour	1994–1996	122	$1,274,107	[A]
7	$151,000,000	$328,679,797	U2	Zoo TV Tour	1992–1993	157	$961,783	[47]
8	$133,000,000	$251,042,149	Celine Dion	Let's Talk About Love World Tour	1998–1999	97	$1,371,134	[48]
9	$130,000,000	$254,637,231	Tina Turner	Wildest Dreams Tour	1996–1997	255	$509,804	[49]
10	$105,000,000	$202,561,249	Garth Brooks	The Garth Brooks World Tour	1996–1998	220	$477,273	[50]

2000s

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  The Rolling Stones on the Bigger Bang Tour
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  Madonna on the Sticky & Sweet Tour
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  U2 on the Vertigo Tour

Top 10 highest-grossing tours of the 2000s

Rank	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollar)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	$558,255,524	$846,566,594	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	2005–2007	144	$3,876,774	[20]
2	$411,000,000	$602,379,246	Madonna	Sticky & Sweet Tour	2008–2009	85	$4,835,294	[3]
3	$389,000,000	$606,744,965	U2	Vertigo Tour	2005–2006	131	$2,969,466	[51]
4	$358,825,665	$524,040,759	The Police	The Police Reunion Tour	2007–2008	146	$2,457,710	[52]
5	$311,637,730	$456,749,637	U2	360° Tour	2009 *	44	$7,082,676	[B]
6	$311,000,000	$531,591,715	The Rolling Stones	Licks Tour	2002–2003	117	$2,658,120	[42]
7	$279,200,000	$407,448,736	Celine Dion	Taking Chances World Tour	2008–2009	129	$2,164,341	[C]
8	$264,100,000	$387,076,299	AC/DC	Black Ice World Tour	2008–2009 *	127	$2,079,528	[D]
9	$250,000,000	$402,496,166	Cher	Living Proof: The Farewell Tour	2002–2005	325	$769,231	[E]
10	$235,000,000	$343,201,700	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	Magic Tour	2007–2008	104	$2,259,615	[61]

2010s

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  Guns N' Roses on the Not in This Lifetime... Tour
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  Coldplay on the Head Full of Dreams Tour
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  Roger Waters during the Wall Live

Top 10 highest-grossing tours of the 2010s

Rank	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollar)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	$776,200,000	$954,615,879	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	2017–2019	255	$3,043,922	[11]
2	$584,200,000	$718,483,119	Guns N' Roses	Not in This Lifetime... Tour	2016–2019	158	$3,697,468	[18]
3	$523,033,675	$670,940,157	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour	2016–2017	114	$4,588,015	[22]
4	$459,000,000	$619,584,429	Roger Waters	The Wall Live	2010–2013	219	$2,094,401	[23]
5	$430,000,000	$528,838,995	Metallica	WorldWired Tour	2016–2019	143	$3,006,993	[25]
6	$424,783,856	$593,754,831	U2	360° Tour	2010–2011 *	66	$6,436,119	[B]
7	$415,600,000	$511,129,038	The Rolling Stones	No Filter Tour	2017–2019 *	44	$9,445,455	[62]
8	$397,300,000	$488,622,634	Pink	Beautiful Trauma World Tour	2018–2019	156	$2,546,795	[63]
9	$390,778,581	$501,285,204	U2	The Joshua Tree Tours 2017 & 2019	2017, 2019	66	$5,920,888	[64]
10	$367,700,000	$460,429,009	Bruno Mars	24K Magic World Tour	2017–2018	196	$1,876,020	[F]

2020s

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  Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on the 2023–2025 Tour
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  Harry Styles on the Love On Tour
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  Pink on the Summer Carnival tour

Top 10 highest-grossing tours of the 2020s

Rank	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollar)	Artist	Tour title	Year(s)	Shows	Average gross	Ref.
1	$2,077,618,725	$2,077,618,725	Taylor Swift	The Eras Tour	2023–2024	149	$13,943,750	[8]
2	$1,300,000,000	$1,300,000,000	Coldplay	Music of the Spheres World Tour †	2022–2025	194	$6,701,031	[9]
3	$729,700,000	$729,700,000	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	2023–2025 Tour	2023–2025	129	$5,656,589	[13]
4	$666,000,000	$666,000,000	Ed Sheeran	+–=÷× Tour †	2022–2025	144	$4,625,000	[14]
5	$635,500,000	$635,500,000	The Weeknd	After Hours til Dawn Tour †	2022–2025	102	$6,230,392	[15]
6	$617,325,000	$637,079,939	Harry Styles	Love On Tour	2021–2023	169	$3,652,663	[16]
7	$584,700,000	$584,700,000	Pink	Summer Carnival	2023–2024	97	$6,027,835	[17]
8	$579,800,000	$598,354,107	Beyoncé	Renaissance World Tour	2023	56	$10,353,571	[67]
9	$471,400,000	$486,485,212	Elton John	Farewell Yellow Brick Road	2020–2023 *	136	$3,466,176	[G]
10	$424,000,000	$424,000,000	G.E.M.	I Am Gloria World Tour †	2023–2025	86	$4,930,233	[26]

Highest-grossing tours by year

This list represents the top-grossing tour of each year according to either Pollstar or Billboard Boxscore (formerly Amusement Business). The two publications may differ on their annual figures due to different total of dates reported or different year-end tracking period. For example, Pollstar listed Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour as the top tour of 2008 with $281.6 million, but Billboard ranked it third on their year-end chart whose tracking period ended on November 11, 2008, thus excluding 20 shows by Madonna.^[71][72] In 2019, Billboard listed Ed Sheeran's ÷ Tour as the top tour of the year ($223.7 million), instead of Pink's Beautiful Trauma World Tour ($215.2 million) as reported by Pollstar. However, Billboard's figure included Sheeran's gross from November 2018 shows; therefore, Pollstar's figure is closer to accurate for the 2019 calendar year.^[73][74]

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  U2 on the Joshua Tree Tour 2017, the most recent of their eight that achieved highest-grossing tour of the year
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  The Rolling Stones on the No Filter Tour, the most recent of their eight that achieved highest-grossing tour of the year
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  Madonna on the MDNA Tour, the most recent of her three that achieved highest-grossing tour of the year

Annual highest-grossing tours

Year	Actual gross	Adjusted gross (in 2024 dollars)	Artist	Tour title	Shows	Ref.
1987	$35,100,000	$97,147,012	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour	79	[75]
1988	$27,600,000	$73,379,966	Pink Floyd	A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour	35	[76]
1989	$98,000,000	$248,591,141	The Rolling Stones	Steel Wheels Tour	60	[36]
1990	$74,100,000	$178,342,053	New Kids on the Block	The Magic Summer Tour	152	[77]
1991	$34,700,000	$80,107,574	Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead Summer Tour	76	[78]
1992	$67,000,000	$150,126,393	U2	Zoo TV Tour	73	[79]
1993	$45,600,000	$99,256,945	Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead Tour 1993	81	[80]
1994	$121,200,000	$257,121,419	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour	60	[81]
1995	$225,668,374	$465,678,197			84	[82]
1996	$60,300,000	$120,894,271	Eagles	Hell Freezes Over Tour	45	[83]
1997	$138,500,000	$271,286,588	U2	PopMart Tour	78	[84]
1998	$193,350,000	$373,002,072	The Rolling Stones	Bridges to Babylon Tour	82	[85]
1999	$89,200,000	$168,368,118		No Security Tour	45	[86]
2000	$122,500,000	$223,671,981	Tina Turner	Twenty Four Seven Tour	108	[87]
2001	$143,000,000	$253,938,545	U2	Elevation Tour	113	[88]
2002	$126,100,000	$220,447,530	Paul McCartney	Driving World Tour	58	[89]
2003	$299,520,230	$511,969,366	The Rolling Stones	Licks Tour	115	[90]
2004	$125,000,000	$208,091,085	Madonna	Re-Invention World Tour	56	[91]
2005	$260,000,000	$418,596,013	U2	Vertigo Tour	90	[92]
2006	$425,100,000	$663,052,146	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	110	[93]
2007	$212,227,302	$321,832,094	The Police	The Police Reunion Tour	66	[94]
2008	$281,600,000	$411,257,867	Madonna	Sticky & Sweet Tour	58	[56]
2009	$311,637,730	$456,749,637	U2	360° Tour	44	[53]
2010	$201,100,000	$289,973,127	Bon Jovi	The Circle Tour	80	[95]
2011	$293,281,487	$409,943,309	U2	360° Tour	44	[55]
2012	$305,158,363	$417,950,626	Madonna	The MDNA Tour	88	[42]
2013	$259,500,000	$350,287,929	Bon Jovi	Because We Can	102	[96]
2014	$290,000,000	$385,185,550	One Direction	Where We Are Tour	69	[97]
2015	$250,733,097	$332,609,439	Taylor Swift	The 1989 World Tour	85	[98]
2016	$268,300,000	$351,520,618	Bruce Springsteen · E Street Band	The River Tour	76	[99]
2017	$316,990,940	$406,631,468	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour 2017	50	[100]
2018	$432,400,000	$541,445,481	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	94	[66]
2019	$215,200,000	$264,665,469	Pink	Beautiful Trauma World Tour	68	[74]
2020	$87,100,000	$105,825,884	Elton John	Farewell Yellow Brick Road	38	[68]
2021	$115,500,000	$134,024,254	The Rolling Stones	No Filter Tour	12	[101]
2022	$342,192,313	$367,679,687	Coldplay	Music of the Spheres World Tour	64	[102]
2023	$1,039,263,762	$1,072,521,110	Taylor Swift	The Eras Tour	60	[5]
2024	$1,043,421,552	$1,043,421,552			80	[103]

See also

• List of highest-grossing concert tours by women
• List of highest-grossing concert tours by Latin artists
• List of most-attended concert tours
• List of most-attended concerts
• List of highest-grossing benefit concerts
• List of highest-grossing concert residencies
• List of highest-grossing live music artists

Notes

1. Eagles' Hell Freezes Over Tour grossed $79.4 million in 1994, $63.3 million in 1995, and $10.2 million in 1996.^[45][46]
2. U2's 360° Tour grossed $311,637,730 in the 2000s decade (2009)^[53] and $424,783,856 in the 2010s (2010 and 2011).^[54][55]
3. Celine Dion's Taking Chances World Tour grossed $236.6 million in 2008 and $42.6 million in 2009.^[56][57]
4. Within the 2000s decade, AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour grossed $37.5 million in 2008 and $226.6 million in 2009.^[58][57]
5. Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour grossed $194,683,927 from 280 reported shows according to Billboard, bringing an average gross of $695,000 per show.^[59] Total gross for the tour's 325 dates is estimated between $200 million and $250 million.^[60]
6. Bruno Mars' 24K Magic World Tour grossed $200.1 million in 2017 and 167.6 million in 2018.^[65][66]
7. Within the 2020s decade, Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road grossed $87.1 million in 2020,^[68] $274 million in 2022,^[69] and $110.3 million in 2023.^[70]