Highest-grossing music tour by a group

U2’s (Ireland) 360° Tour grossed $736,421,584 (£450,031,000) from 110 shows staged between 30 June 2009 and 30 July 2011. The mammoth trek was the most lucrative music tour in history until 2 August 2019, when it was confirmed that Ed Sheeran’s ÷ [Divide] Tour had made $736.7 million (£666.2 million) from 250 shows played across six continents since 16 March 2017.

A total of 7,272,046 fans in Europe, North America, Oceania, Africa and South America witnessed the 360° spectacle across its seven legs, which shattered the $558,255,524 (£277,080,000) grossed by The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang trek in 2005–07. U2 took the Stones’ record for the highest-grossing world tour with their second date at the Estádio do Morumbi stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, on 10 April 2011.

The Stones have since been relegated to third place on the list of highest-grossing music tours by a group, behind Guns N’ Roses’ Not in this Lifetime… Tour (1 April 2016 to 2 November 2019, pending the completion of the final North American leg).

The 360° Tour held the attendance record for a music tour (7,272,046) until it was beaten by Ed Sheeran’s ÷ Tour in May 2019.

Average gross per 360° Tour show: $6.7 million (£4 million). Average attendance per show: 66,110 (a record for a music tour, as Sheeran played smaller venues than U2 on his ÷ Tour).