Taylor Swift's Eras Tour leads at $2.08 billion, ahead of Coldplay's Music of the Spheres ($1.52 billion) and The Weeknd's still-running After Hours til Dawn ($1.07 billion).
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, at $2.08 billion from 149 shows (2023–2024). Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour is second at $1.52 billion and The Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour third at $1.07 billion. Figures are nominal gross as listed by Wikipedia on October 17, 2026, from Billboard and Pollstar reports.
Three tours have now grossed more than $1 billion: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour and The Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour. Seven of the top ten began in 2021 or later, and two, The Weeknd's and Metallica's, are still adding dates. This list ranks concert tours by total reported box office gross in nominal U.S. dollars, from the top-20 table in Wikipedia's List of highest-grossing concert tours, which compiles Billboard Boxscore and Pollstar reports.
The highest-grossing tour of all time, and the first to reach $2 billion. It ran 149 shows from March 2023 to December 2024 and averaged about $13.9 million a show, the highest per-show average in the top ten. Pollstar estimated it was also the first tour to collect $1 billion, in 2023.
Coldplay's 223-show stadium run is the second tour to pass $1.5 billion. It was the first tour to officially report $1 billion, in August 2024, and finished about $553 million behind the Eras Tour.
Pollstar put the four-year stadium tour at $1.07 billion in September 2026, making it the third tour ever past $1 billion. It is still running, so the figure will rise.
Elton John's farewell ran 330 shows over five years, the longest schedule in the top ten, and was the highest-grossing tour of all time when it ended in July 2023, before the Eras Tour passed it.
Billboard reported that Sheeran's Mathematics Tour out-grossed his own record-setting Divide Tour, finishing at $875.7 million from 169 shows.
Sheeran's 255-show Divide Tour grossed $776.2 million and was the highest-grossing tour of all time when it ended in August 2019. He is the only act with two tours in the top ten.
U2's 360° Tour grossed $736.4 million from 110 shows and held the all-time record until Ed Sheeran's Divide Tour passed it in 2019.
Billboard reported in July 2025 that Springsteen's tour with the E Street Band had passed $700 million. It finished at $729.7 million from 129 shows.
Metallica's M72 tour, still running, has grossed $668.4 million from 86 shows. That total is Wikipedia's sum of $476 million reported through August 2025 and Billboard's monthly Boxscore figures since. Its average of about $7.8 million a show is second only to the Eras Tour in the top ten.
Styles' 169-show Love On Tour grossed $617.3 million. Billboard called it only the fourth tour ever to pass $600 million when it ended in 2023.
| # | Name | Years | Shows | Average gross per show | Status (Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | 2023–2024 | 149 | $13.9 million | Completed |
| 2 | Coldplay: Music of the Spheres World Tour | 2022–2025 | 223 | $6.8 million | Completed |
| 3 | The Weeknd: After Hours til Dawn Tour | 2022–2026 | 158 | $6.8 million | Ongoing |
| 4 | Elton John: Farewell Yellow Brick Road | 2018–2023 | 330 | $2.8 million | Completed |
| 5 | Ed Sheeran: +–=÷× (Mathematics) Tour | 2022–2025 | 169 | $5.2 million | Completed |
| 6 | Ed Sheeran: ÷ (Divide) Tour | 2017–2019 | 255 | $3.0 million | Completed |
| 7 | U2: 360° Tour | 2009–2011 | 110 | $6.7 million | Completed |
| 8 | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: 2023–2025 Tour | 2023–2025 | 129 | $5.7 million | Completed |
| 9 | Metallica: M72 World Tour | 2023–2027 | 86 | $7.8 million | Ongoing |
| 10 | Harry Styles: Love On Tour | 2021–2023 | 169 | $3.7 million | Completed |
Tours are ranked by total reported gross in U.S. dollars, highest first, as listed in the Top 20 highest-grossing tours of all time table in Wikipedia's List of highest-grossing concert tours (revision of October 17, 2026). Figures are nominal, not adjusted for inflation; the Wikipedia table's adjusted column is not used. The underlying figures come from different reports: Billboard Boxscore for most tours, Pollstar for Coldplay and The Weeknd, and The New York Times for the Eras Tour total. Two tours are still running, so their figures are as last reported: The Weeknd at $1.07 billion (Pollstar, September 21, 2026), and Metallica at $668.4 million, which is Wikipedia's sum of a $476 million report through August 2025 and Billboard's monthly Boxscore figures through July 2026. Average per show is gross divided by shows. No ties.
The Eras Tour grossed $2.08 billion. The record before it was Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road at $939.1 million, so Eras more than doubled it. Coldplay's Music of the Spheres has since become the second tour past $1.5 billion, at $1.52 billion.
Two tours in the top ten are still running as of October 2026: The Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour ($1.07 billion as of September 2026) and Metallica's M72 World Tour ($668.4 million). Both totals will rise.
Within this top ten, the Eras Tour leads at about $13.9 million per show, followed by Metallica's M72 World Tour at about $7.8 million and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres at about $6.8 million.
No. They are nominal grosses as reported, so older tours rank lower than they would in today's dollars.
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