Highest-grossing music tour

Taylor Swift’s (USA) The Eras Tour, the world’s first billion-dollar music tour, grossed $2,077,618,725 (£1,629,875,269) from 149 shows across 51 stadiums, 19 countries and five continents between 17 March 2023 and 8 December 2024, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Described by the singer as “the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date”, Swift’s career-spanning extravaganza amassed ticket sales of 10,168,008, at an average ticket price of $204.33 (£160.29), with an average attendance of 68,242 at each of the 3.5-hour-long performances.

The Eras Tour included eight shows at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, and six shows apiece at Singapore National Stadium, Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, USA. Kicking off at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, USA, and winding up at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Eras Tour also featured stops in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Australia, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Poland.

The record-shattering trek covered songs from 10 different albums, increasing to 11 for the start of the European leg in May 2024 following the release of The Tortured Poets Department on 19 April of that year. Eras dwarfed Swift’s previous highest-grossing world tour, 2018’s Reputation Stadium Tour ($345,675,146, or £269,381,530, from 53 shows between 8 May and 21 November 2018), and, as of 28 January 2025, it was expected to maintain a clear lead over the second-highest-grossing tour of all time, Coldplay’s ongoing Music of the Spheres World Tour, which had a reported gross of $1,145,056,215 (£904,986,019) for its first 175 shows, between 18 March 2022 and 16 November 2024. Coldplay’s 225-date Spheres tour was scheduled to wrap up at London’s Wembley Stadium on 8 September 2025.