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Top 10 Highest Grossing Tours of All Time

With U2 overtaking The Rolling Stones as the top touring act ever, where do the rest of the heavyweights stack up?

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Time to update the record books, because last weekend megastars U2 took ownership of the throne for the highest grossing tour ever.

 

The ill-fated Spiderman musical on Broadway nonwithstanding, the Dublin rockers' career is as strong as it's ever been. On Sunday, April 11, U2's second show at the Estadio Morumbi in Sao Paulo, Brazil, saw their monstrous 360 tour break the previous record of $558 million set by the Rolling Stones.

 

U2 are set to reach $700 million in gross touring revenue by the time their current tour ends in Canada on July 30 at the Magnetic Hill Music Festival in New Brunswick. The band's manager Paul McGuinness said (from his hidden bunker made of hundred dollar bills) that achieving the record was, "something we're very proud of having set. And to set it with a further 20-plus shows to go on the tour is kind of mind-blowing. It means that it's a record that will probably never be outstripped."

 

McGuinness believes the success has everything to do with the massive attention and production that U2 put into live shows. "We were always very conscious that we had two parallel careers, as recording artists and as live performers, and each was absolutely vitally important," he said.

 

To honor this absolute madness, and put things into an all-time historical perspective, we've dug through the trophy trenches and compiled a list of the Top 10 Grossing Tours of All Time below!

 

 

Top 10 Grossing Tours of All Time

 

 

Gross

Artist

Tour

Years

 

 

 

 

 

$558 million+

 

 

The Rolling Stones

 

 

A Bigger Bang Tour

 

 

2005-07

 

 

 

 

 

$441 million+

AC/DC

Black Ice World Tour

2008-10

 

 

 

 

 

$408 million+

Madonna

Sticky & Sweet Tour

2008-09

 

 

 

 

$400 million+

Celine Dion

A New Day...

2003-07

 

 

 

 

$389 million+

U2

Vertigo Tour

2005-06

 

 

 

$358 million+

The Police

The Police Reunion Tour

2007-08

 

 

 

$339 million+

The Rolling Stones

Bridges To Babylon

1997-99

 

 

 

 

$320 million+

The Rolling Stones

Voodoo Lounge Tour

1994-95

 

 

 

 

$311 million+

U2

U2 360 Tour

2009-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Wenn.com

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