Madonna’s World Tour Is 2024’s Highest-Grossing On Record (But Taylor Swift Will Probably Win Out)

Madonna’s Celebration Tour, which started last year, grossed $178.1 million so far with a $208.85 average ticket price and average attendance of 13,378 people per show, the live music trade publication said in its mid-year report.

Bad Bunny, who held the record for most-streamed artist in a single day in Spotify history before Taylor Swift broke it this April, is in a close second place with his 48-stop Most Wanted Tour, which grossed $174.5 million.

Mexican singer Luis Miguel is in third place with a $169.4 million gross over the course of his self-named tour, which has wrapped up its Latin American, United States and Canadian legs so far this year and started its European shows on June 28.

U2’s residency in Las Vegas, the first at the now-iconic Sphere venue, grossed $134.7 million over just 15 tour dates in 2024 (plus 25 in 2023) to become the fourth highest-grossing tour of the year and the one with the highest average ticket price at $352.86 each.

Karol G’s came in at No. 5 with her Mañana Será Bonito Tour, which has grossed more than $110 million so far this year and will continue across Europe and end in Brazil in September.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour didn’t make this year’s list because she has not allowed her official box office totals for The Eras Tour to be reported by trade publications, according to Pollstar, though the group used stadium capacities and potential gross estimates to name The Eras Tour as the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark in its 2023 year-end charts.

Pollstar did not do a mid-year estimate for The Era’s Tour in 2024, but has projected it will gross another $1 billion on the tour as it continues this year, meaning it is likely to have grossed over $2 billion by the time it ends in December.