Top 10 Highest Grossing Tours of All Time

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

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