Pollstar just lately rounded up an inventory that exhibits what number of tickets the largest touring rock band bought this millennium.
The publication’s Most Widespread Touring Artists of the Millennium checklist exhibits information for the High 25 artists ranked by the variety of tickets bought since 2001. There’s a mixture of artists from all totally different genres, however there are fairly a number of rock and metallic acts that made the reduce.
In truth, over half of the artists famous within the information are rock, metallic or are related to both of the 2. See a breakdown of what the findings inform us beneath.
Which Rock Band Bought the Most Live performance Tickets Since 2001?
Coldplay got here in at No. 1 with a whopping 24.8 million tickets bought because the yr 2001, based on Pollstar’s report. The overall gross quantity they earned was over $2.48 billion, with a mean ticket worth of $100.23 over 731 exhibits.
Regardless that they got here in at No. 1 for the quantity of tickets bought, a number of different artists truly performed extra exhibits than they did. Dave Matthews Band performed over 1,100 live shows since 2001, Elton John performed over 1,200 and Dutch vocalist and composer André Rieu performed 1,700.
Which Different Rock + Metallic Artists Made the Checklist?
Along with Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band and Elton John, the opposite rock and metal-leaning artists featured on the checklist are U2, Bruce Springsteen & the E Road Band, Metallica, Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, Weapons N’ Roses, Eagles, Phish, Iron Maiden, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney and Depeche Mode, respectively.
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The Rolling Stones performed the smallest variety of live shows since 2001 — 341 — and nonetheless managed to return in at No. 12 after promoting 12.5 million tickets. Additionally they had the second-highest common ticket worth ($162.96) after Taylor Swift ($165.54).
Swift additionally had the very best complete gross for tickets bought at over $3.1 billion. That is fairly spectacular contemplating her first headlining tour did not happen till 2009.
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