Highest Grossing Concert Tours

Devoted fans will pay no expense to see their musical idols’ electricity live on stage. It is an experience indeed worth having. Ticket sales and merch expenses can make everyone feel in awe of the unifying power music and money can bring. If you have enough cash in your wallet, why not try making investments to watch your musical favorite artists play. Brace yourself! This is a rundown of the highest-grossing concert tours the modern world has ever seen.

1.Metallica’s WorldWired Tour

Metallica’s WorldWired Tour is given credit for being the rock band’s largest and highest-grossing tour in history which earned the band a whopping $430 million when it started in 2016 and wrapped up in September 2019. Reports mention that Metallica was able to earn $36.6 million with only eight shows and that the grossing average for the show was over four million dollars. Metallica also belonged to Forbes’ list of highest-paid performers and landed on the top 30.

2.Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour

Madonna landed a record-breaking stint thanks to her Sticky & Sweet Tour which went across three continents. The tour ran from August 2008 and ended in September 2009. Hard Candy, her eleventh album, was the reason for the tour. It had collaborations with artists like Timbaland and Justin Timberlake. It was during this time when Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour became one of the highest-selling tours for a solo performer. This earned the pop icon a hefty sum of $405 million. She sold over three million tickets too. This tour broke the record for her own Confessions Tour back in 2006 which made her $194 million. We can credit Madonna for her timeless impact on music.

3.Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters had his own tour called the Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour that ran from September 2010 to September 2013. Waters performed each song from his album, The Wall, together with old members from the legendary band. Reports credit this tour as the largest by a solo artist at the time. The tour earned Waters a whopping $460 million and sold over a million in tickets.

4.U2’s U2 360 Degrees Tour

U2’s U2 360 Degrees Tour is among the highest-grossing concert tours in music history. The band bagged a staggering $736.4 million in tour tickets. The tour kicked off in June 2009 and concluded in July 2011. The “claw” is given credit for being the most massive stage ever made and it was surrounded by adoring viewers while the band was playing. The tour’s musical guests included famous artists like Muse and Lenny Kravitz. One can bet a lot of investments were made to make this tour a huge success.

5.AC/DC Black Ice Tour

Rock band AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour started in October 2008 and wrapped up in June 2010. It was used as a promotional stunt for their fifteenth album that bore the same name as the tour. The tour was able to obtain global success and was given credit for being the rock band’s largest tour in the history of their career. It had over five million in ticket sales and earned the band a whopping $411 million. This was also the final tour for music legend Malcolm Young before his retirement.

6.Pink’s Beautiful Trauma Tour

Popstar Pink’s Beautiful Trauma Tour took credit for being the musician’s seventh concert tour. It was a way for her to promote her seventh album, Beautiful Trauma. The tantalizing tour began in March of 2018 and concluded in November the following year. It was dubbed as the most amazing tour she had. Pink’s captivating performance included a lot of acrobatic tricks and required some gymnastics, too. The songstress was even hurled up and down at a mesmerizing height — she didn’t even break a tune while at it.