The 10 most successful tours of 2025 (and the Oasis mystery)

The 10 most successful tours of 2025 (and the Oasis mystery)

ByJohn

What were the most successful tours of the year that is about to end? As 2025 comes to an end, it’s time to take stock. Billboard reports the most profitable tours of the year. The “Bible” of the American music biz has drawn up the complete end-of-year ranking, associating each tour with the relative takings. Coldplay comes in first place: the “Music of the Spheres” tour grossed $464.9 million selling 3.5 million tickets.

Among solo artists it dominates Beyoncé: the “Cowboy Carter tour” grossed 407.6 million dollars selling 1.6 million tickets, allowing the American pop diva to conquer second place in the general ranking behind Chris Martin and co. Bronze medal a Kendrick Lamar and Sza: with the “Grand National Tour” the two artists sold 1.8 million tickets and grossed $358.7 million.

Surprisingly, in the ranking – not only in the top ten, but in the complete ranking – “Oasis Live ’25”, the reunion tour of the band, does not appear. Oasiswhich monopolized media attention. And this despite the fact that, according to estimates, the tour made money 425 million dollarsso more than Beyoncé’s tour. According to what we learn, Oasis would not appear in the ranking of the most successful tours of the year because the data from their concerts were not reported to Boxscore, the source from which Billboard draws to draw up the ranking.

Here, below, the top ten:

1. Coldplay – “Music of the Spheres” ($464.9 million – 3.5 million tickets sold)
2. Beyoncé – “Cowboy Carter tour” ($407.6 million – 1.6 million tickets sold)
3. Kendrick Lamar and Sza – “Grand National Tour” ($358.7 million – 1.8 million tickets sold)
4. The Weeknd – “After Hours til Dawn Tour” ($336.7 million – 2.2 million tickets sold)
5. Shakira – “Las mujeres ya no lloran World Tour” ($327.4 million – 2.5 million tickets sold)
6. Chris Brown – “Breezy Bowl XX” ($248.7 million – 1.7 million tickets sold)
7. Imagine Dragons – “Loom World Tour” ($241.6 million – 2.1 million tickets sold)
8. Post Malone – “The Big Ass Stadium Tour” ($231.2 million – 1.6 million tickets sold)
9. Ed Sheeran – “The Mathematics Tour” ($214.5 million – 1.9 million tickets sold)
10. Stray Kids – “The Dominate World Tour” ($185.7 million – 1.3 million tickets sold)

Lady Gaga with her “Mayhem Ball” she ranked only twelfth, with 166.2 million dollars in takings. Bruce Springsteen closes the season with earnings of $124.8 million. Paul McCartney And Guns N’ Roses with $104.5 million and $95.6 million respectively.

The complete ranking is available here.

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