In August Madonna will begin her Sticky and Sweet Tour. Early estimates are that the US portion could break $125. Total tour estimates are expected to be twice that. This should easily put her in the top 5 all-time US tour grosses.
1. The Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang Tour" $162 million 2005
2. U2 "Vertigo Tour" $138.9 million 2005
3. The Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang Tour" $138.5 million 2006
4. The Rolling Stones "Voodoo Loung Tour" $121.2 million 1994
5. Bruce Springsteen "The Rising Tour" $115.9 million 2003
6. U2 "Elevation Tour" $109.7 million 2001
7. Pink Floyd "Division Bell tour" $103.5 million 1994
8. Paul McCartney $103.3 million 2002
9. The Rolling Stones "Steel Wheels Tour" $98 million 1989
10. Barbara Streisand $92.5 million 2006
11. Tim McGraw / Faith Hill $88.8 million 2006
12. The Rolling Stones "Bridges To Babylon Tour" $89.3 million 1997
13. Madonna "Confessions Tour" $88,842,663
14. The Rolling Stones "Licks Tour" $87.9 million 2002
Concert tour grosses are a funny thing to calculate. Tours for the top acts spread to different countries and exactly how does ones agree on a standard conversion to US dollars for sales in Yen. Also, exactly how many Farewell tours did Cher have or was it just one long one? We will never really know and promoters will always try to pump up their numbers. Regardless, when a tour starts talking about $125M domestic and the tour is using the stadiums that pack in 40,000+ instead of the NBA style 18,000+, it is time to take notice.
Just in case anyone was wondering, The Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds tour took in about $54M.
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