3, with a $64.7 million gross and 497,000 ticket count through Oct. The combination of these three bands proved than 1+1+1 can sometimes equal more than three, as the tour’s per-night average gross is more than double each band’s previous best, combined. 2 on Billboard’s year-end Top Tours ranking, raking in $67.3 million and 659,000 tickets sold. The winner in terms of pure volume of tickets sold is the triple-headline pop-punk bonanza The Hella Mega Tour, featuring Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer. 23) means that it actually ranks 13th in total attendance. The Stones crown the year-end tour rankings with a brief run of high-priced stadium shows, but limiting the tour dates (eight in the 2021 tracking period – the No Filter Tour continued with more shows through Nov. And, outside of low-capacity, high-ticket Las Vegas residencies, the No Filter Tour boasts the year’s second-highest average ticket price with $212.44 per seat, behind the Eagles’ $232.40. The Stones also grab the highest average per-night attendance with 42,549 tickets sold, again fending off stadium competition from Aventura, Los Bukis and Billy Joel. The next-highest per-show average among the year’s top 40 tours? Los Bukis’ $5.52 million – an unqualified monster take, but just barely 60% of the Stones’ nightly pace. No Filter’s $72.3 million finish averages out to $9.04 million per show. Only four acts in the entire top 40 played fewer shows during the tracking period, and none of them made even a third of what Jagger & Co. Not only did they mount the biggest comeback tour of the post-COVID launch they did it in only eight shows. Quite frankly, no one does it like The Stones. 31, 2021.Įxplore All of Billboard’s 2021 Year-End Charts Those earnings break down to $16.3 million from two shows in September and $56 million from six shows in October, enough to be the top-grossing tour of that month.īillboard’s Year-End Boxscore charts are based on engagements that played between Nov.
In just eight stadium shows during the annual tracking period, the tour grossed $72.3 million and sold 340,000 tickets, becoming the No. You’ve heard the story before – venues worldwide shut down in March 2020, and livestreams and drive-in concerts kept us busy until the lights turned back on, for the most part, over the course of summer 2021.Īs soon as it was safe, The Rolling Stones kicked off the U.S.