celeb news Madonna scores highest-grossing tour of 2024 so far as live music growth settles down

[tiagol88]

 

 

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Madonna has the highest-grossing worldwide tour of 2024 thus far, according to Pollstar's mid-year report, thanks to the success of her "Celebration Tour." With average ticket prices of $208.85, the pop icon had an average gross of $2,794,007 with 13,378 average tickets sold, making for a total of 856,247 in ticket sales across 34 reported shows out of 65 dates.

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Bad Bunny trails closely behind Madonna with $174.6 million from his "Most Wanted Tour," while Luis Miguel follows him with $169.4 million, U2 ranks at No. 4 with $135 million from the band's Sphere residency and Karol G rounds out the top five with $111 million. The top 10 continues with Bruno Mars ($102 million), Coldplay ($100 million), Seventeen ($74 million), Eagles ($69 million) and Nicki Minaj ($66 million).

Still making headlines like this after 40 years and ahead of legendary bands, new acts, etc 

 

 

[Hector]

Forever the Queen. What an amazing tour

[PoisonedIvy]

Her throne is a permanent fixture in the opulent castle of music and entertainment  

[bjorn]

More than Taylors Eras Tour who's done 42 sold out stadium shows thus far in 2024? 
 

[cat1867]

2 minutes ago, bjorn said:

More than Taylors Eras Tour who's done 42 sold out stadium shows thus far in 2024? 
 

They are only talking about tours that started in 2024. Eras started in 2023.

[Oktober Knight]

40 years in the business and she's still shattering records! And one show had 1.6m people attending. Only the most popular female artist in history, the biggest selling female artist of all time, the Queen of Pop! 

 

[wastedpotential]

7 minutes ago, bjorn said:

More than Taylors Eras Tour who's done 42 sold out stadium shows thus far in 2024? 
 

 

They didn't include it because Taylor hasn't reported her numbers to pollstar yet and seemingly never will

 

[RobynYoBank]

5 minutes ago, cat1867 said:

They are only talking about tours that started in 2024. Eras started in 2023.

Nah, they included Coldplay. They're just waiting until the end of the year to calculate Eras since Taylor isn't reporting boxscores.

[Sannie]

Why isn't Taylor reporting her numbers? And if they aren't reporting the numbers, why is everyone running with the "$1b" number?  

[mrpartyrocker]

So we can say she's done between 350-400m with all the shows! And that's all arenas right? That's sooo legendary! Imagine the numbers she'd pull if she had a stadium tour but this puta refuses to make history 

[UseYourIllusion2002]

65 years old, 42 years into her career, has been crucified by the media since the 80s, doesn't have to release bland and safe music to be popular, truly the QUEEN of pop. 
 

Between this, Guinness re-certifying her as the biggest selling female artist of all time, her breaking the record for the highest attended stand alone concert (~2 million people!), and The Immaculate Collection being certified by the RIAA as the highest selling compilation by a solo artist all in 2024, I never want to hear people doubt her status! The BIGGEST female artist of ALL TIME! The QUEEN OF POP!

[Richie.Valdez]

The most successful tour .. the highest grossing tour. The Queen of Pop 

 

 

 

[nightowl]

Such a legend. Forever the queen of pop. 

[Breathe On Moi]

absolute Queen, she deserves it 

 

screaming at U2 being in the top 4 still, like can they come up with something else??

[Cheers]

Amazing!

 

also dayum @ Bad Bunny's decline. Haven't seen a single clip of his tour ngl. Un Verano tour clips were everywhere. 

[Vixen Eyes]

Anyone down voting any of these posts here praising Madonna are bitter!

Madonna will NEVER let go of her rightful throne!

[QueenBeyoncé]

What? They not pulling numbers out their ass for Taylor's tour like they did last year? Oh that's right Beyoncé not touring this year.. after it was official she had the highest grossing female tour Pollstar & Forbes started ERAs tour grossed 1B even tho they had no data 

[wastedpotential]

38 minutes ago, Sannie said:

Why isn't Taylor reporting her numbers? And if they aren't reporting the numbers, why is everyone running with the "$1b" number?  

Girl no one knows why she's not reporting nnn 

 

As for the 1B figure (which accounts for the 60 US, Mexico, and Argentina shows in 2023), that's based on a Pollstar estimated average ticket price of ~$270 and an estimated average attendance of ~64k/night (and a nightly gross of ~$17.3M). We don't have any gross figures from any specific shows, but given that most shows have their rough attendance figures reported in the local press (these shows ranging from 55k-73k), it seemingly holds up.

[HASHTAGPOW]

Forbes calls it the Tour of the Century 

Edited June 25 by HASHTAGPOW

[Mr. Mendes]

1 hour ago, Sannie said:

Why isn't Taylor reporting her numbers? And if they aren't reporting the numbers, why is everyone running with the "$1b" number?  

She is not officially reporting them no, but various sources whose job it is to calculate tour box office can very easily make estimates based on the information provided. All reasonable outlets for this process have not reported an official number (as they don't know it) but have made it clear through their estimates that it has made at least $1 billion in revenue and this has been co-signed by the agencies in charge of the tour. There's a whole segment of the industry devoted to this specific type of thing.

 

OT: Congrats to an absolute legend on another earth shaking tour. So honored to have gotten to see it twice.  

[Angelo]

More than Olivia Rodrigo? 

[mike_int]

There will never be more influential female artists than Madonna !

 

No matter if you like her or not, or if you want your fav to be the one, it is simply the truth.

What she has achieved will never be conquered.

You can have streams, you can have tours, you can have number 1 singles but you will never have impact on so many levels as Madonna did and be so relevant more than 40 years after the debut.

 

 

Edited June 25 by mike_int

[discosean]

52 minutes ago, Angelo said:

More than Olivia Rodrigo? 

Olivia is a local fad.

Madonna is a GLOBAL ICON. 

[C_Colstead]

Ugh, this LEGEND.

 

There may be other artists who are more successful than M at this moment in time, but until the day she dies, she will always be at the very, very top of the music hierarchy. Quite literally, the GOAT.

[pisuke]

And that's the way it is