Bad Bunny and Elton John lead ranking of most profitable tours in 2022

With the return of major festivals and concerts after the period of social isolation, 2022 saw an exceptionally profitable year in the music industry. As pointed out by the quarterly report of the live nation16 tours have surpassed the US$100 million mark this year with big stadium tours (via Variety🇧🇷

For the ranking, renowned artists such as The Weeknd🇧🇷 Coldplay🇧🇷 Billy Idol🇧🇷 Red Hot Chili Peppers🇧🇷 Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga were considered for the research. Nonetheless, Bad Bunny and Elton John appear at the top of the worldwide tour chart projected by Pollstar, with billionaire revenues.

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The Puerto Rican rapper earned US$393.3 million (more than R$2 billion in current dollar exchange rates) with his two tours in the last year: The Last Tour Of The Worldwhich featured 36 dates between February and April this year, grossing US$ 113 million and the Hottest Tour Del Mundowith revenues of US$ 269 million, with 1.3 million tickets sold until November 16th.

already the Farewell Yellow Brick Roadwhich marks the farewell of Elton John of the stages, ends the year with revenues of US$ 274 million (R$ 1.4 billion). Third place on Pollstar’s tour rankings goes to Ed Sheeran and its schedule of concerts in European stadiums with the Mathematics Tourgrossing US$251 million (R$1.3 billion).

Sheeran he is also the only performer to reach the 3 million ticket sales milestone with 3,047,694 sold across 63 shows at 28 venues throughout the year for a massive average of 48,376 tickets sold per show.