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With an audience of over 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, McCartney's record was broken by Japanese rock band Glay in Chiba, Japan. Glay held the record for six years. Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed the record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017 with a total of 225,173 tickets sold at Modena Park.
In the early 21st century, tour revenue skyrocketed as record sales collapsed and musicians began relying on live shows for their income. [4] The first tours to surpass $100 million in revenue, according to reports, were Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour and Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour, both of which ran from 1987 to 1989.
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour is the most-attended tour of all time, with a total of 10.3 million tickets sold in 175 shows. The following is a list of the most-attended concert tours with at least 3.5 million tickets sold, as well as the tours with the most tickets sold by year and the most tickets sold in a single day.
Bon Jovi's Lost Highway Tour: $210 Million. Gross adjusted for inflation: $255.1 million Bon Jovi's Lost Highway Tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2008, Reuters reported.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according to Pollstar. The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. U2, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, and Elton John also passed
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live ...
The best part about Yessongs—the muddy sounding, triple live album that Yes released in 1973—was Roger Dean’s majestic artwork on the gatefold sleeves. Fortunately, seven multi-track shows ...
Live at Leeds has been cited as the best live rock recording of all time by The Daily Telegraph, [38] The Independent, [39] the BBC, [40] Q magazine, [41] and Rolling Stone. [42] In 2003, it was ranked number 170 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time , [ 43 ] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, [ 44 ] and ...