Taylor Swift has the highest-grossing concert tour in history, and it is not close.
Adjusted for inflation, her 2023 Eras Tour finished $631 million ahead of the tour in second place, according to a new ranking from Visual Capitalist. The stranger thing sits further down the list. Every one of the top 20 happened this century. Not one of them started in the 1900s.
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The Oldest Tour on the List Began in 2005
That would be the Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang, at No. 7. Everything above it is newer. The figures are adjusted for inflation to July 2026, so this is not a case of old money being undercounted. Touring simply did not pay like this until record sales fell away.
Only Five Tours Have Passed $1 Billion
Swift’s Eras Tour leads at $2.2 billion across its 149 dates, the only tour ever to clear $2 billion. Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres follows at $1.6 billion and stands as the most attended tour in history. U2’s 360° Tour takes third at $1.1 billion. Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road and Ed Sheeran’s Divide Tour round out the club at roughly $1 billion apiece. All five started in 2009 or later.
Paris Felt It More Than the Olympics
Swift played across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas before finishing in Vancouver in December 2024. The tour reportedly added around $4 billion to the US economy. Economists predicted a boost of roughly 0.2 percent to Singapore’s GDP. Paris reportedly saw a bigger economic impact from her shows than from the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Springsteen, Beyoncé and Metallica All Made It
Guns N’ Roses’ Not in This Lifetime sits at No. 8 with $758 million. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band land just behind at $754 million for their 2023 to 2025 run. Harry Styles’ Love On Tour is No. 13, Roger Waters’ The Wall Live is No. 15 and Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour is No. 16 at $629 million.
Four acts appear twice. Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, the Rolling Stones and Metallica each placed two tours in the top 20. Rammstein, at No. 18, is the only act on the list that isn’t from an English-speaking country. Metallica took the last two spots outright, at Nos. 19 and 20.
