Reside music trade publication Pollstar has revealed its annual breakdown of touring revenue, and various rock acts function within the Prime 10 grossing performers worldwide.
In an inventory predictably headed by cultural phenomenon Taylor Swift – whose 2024 Eras tour dates pulled in additional than a billion {dollars} in ticket gross sales – whereas Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Metallica additionally prompted followers to collectively half with tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
Coldplay have been second within the world checklist, grossing $421,713.321. The band’s Music of the Spheres World Tour is now essentially the most profitable of all time when it comes to seats stuffed, with greater than 10.3 million tickets offered because the first date in 2022. The band will end the tour with 10 exhibits at London’s Wembley Stadium in August 2025.
Fifth on the worldwide checklist have been Bruce Springsteen and the E-Avenue Band, who performed 44 exhibits over the 12 months, promoting 1,667,607 tickets throughout 44 dates for a gross whole of greater than $250 million, whereas the Rolling Stones weren’t too far behind, raking in $235 million from simply 18 exhibits. At quantity 9 on the checklist have been Metallica, who performed 24 exhibits, gathering $179 million on the field workplace.
Within the US alone, the Rolling Stones have been on the prime of the checklist, with their complete schedule happening within the USA. Taylor Swift performed simply 9 US exhibits in 2024 .
In different Pollsatar information, the biggest-grossing venue on the earth has been confirmed as Sphere in Las Vegas, which solely opened in 2023 and has performed host to simply 4 acts. In 2024 the venue grossed $367.2 million by promoting 1,136,179 tickets to 70 residency exhibits by U2, Phish, Useless & Firm and Eagles.
