Elton John finally bids goodbye to concert touring after his last performance in Stockholm, Sweden last week, Jul. 8, 2023. Closing a 330-show trek is no easy feat, and surely, it has yielded results and fortune that would surely outlive him.
As the numbers were calculated, Elton John raised the bar to beat any artists after him, making his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour a history and record-setting tour.
Elton John 'Farewell Yellow Brick Road' Tour Gross Sales
According to a new report from Billboard Boxscore, Elton John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour grossed a total of $939.1 million and has sold 6 million tickets across his 5-year tour on over 9 legs and 330 shows globally.
To date, the show is the highest-grossing tour in history having surpassed the $900 million threshold last month. The publication also reported that those shows do not even include his Glastonbury Festival set.
All in all, he performed 183 times in North America, 101 in Europe, and 46 times in Oceania.
In North America, he grossed more than $567.7 million and amounting to more than half of the tickets sold 3.5 million. Billboard noted that it was 61% of the total gross. Europe raked in $218 million with 1.5 million tickets. Australia and New Zealand, collectively called Oceania, reaped $134 million with 889,000 tickets.
To date, he has surpassed Ed Sheeran's "Divide" Tour which has only grossed around $776 million and U2's $736 million sales.
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Taylor Swift 'The Eras' Tour
However, John might be holding his record not too long once Taylor Swift's record-breaking "The Eras" tour comes to a close. Pollstar has projected that once Swift culminates her tours in Asia, Australia, and Europe in 2024, she would have surpassed the $1 billion threshold in touring, making the career-spanning tour the highest-grossing tour in history and for female artists.
Swift wouldn't have to perform 330 shows. Right now, based on the most recent additions to the tour, she has only plotted 133 shows, including the ones she has already performed.
Swift is on her last few shows in the United States, culminating at a 6-day residency at the SoFi Stadium in the early weeks of August. She will then come to South America, then Asia, and finally to Europe.
By the time she ends in August 2024, she would have raked in more than a billion dollars from touring alone.
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