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The 10 highest-grossing touring bands
This ranking filters Pollstar’s artist chart to band and band-led acts. The gross and ticket totals below are from Pollstar’s chart published July 25, 2022, and cover its stated period through July 1, 2022. They are reported touring grosses, not profits or personal income.
| Rank | Act | Reported touring gross (USD) | Tickets sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rolling Stones | $2,165,280,638 | 22,137,799 |
| 2 | U2 | $2,127,771,684 | 26,178,043 |
| 3 | Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | $1,527,407,373 | 20,845,687 |
| 4 | Bon Jovi | $1,329,891,400 | 17,750,044 |
| 5 | Eagles | $1,314,544,780 | 10,995,128 |
| 6 | Metallica | $1,219,599,179 | 19,468,173 |
| 7 | Dave Matthews Band | $1,085,558,730 | 23,279,056 |
| 8 | Coldplay | $1,038,862,173 | 12,532,987 |
| 9 | Guns N’ Roses | $751,306,152 | 8,470,755 |
| 10 | AC/DC | $668,427,967 | 11,512,424 |
Source: Pollstar’s July 25, 2022 all-time touring chart. The chart gives a July 7, 1980–July 1, 2022 date range and converts grosses to U.S. dollars. Its source chart ranks artists overall; this table removes solo performers and retains band or band-led acts.
What the ranking measures—and what it doesn’t
Reported live-show gross
Pollstar’s cumulative figures draw on box-office reports from talent buyers, venues, booking agents and artist managers, supplemented by research. The chart covers worldwide headlining shows in its documented period. It excludes festival appearances and support slots; package tours are included in some cases. See Pollstar’s explanation of the all-time chart for its methodology and comparison cautions.
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A touring gross is money reported at the box office, not the amount an act or its members keep. The cited chart does not account for comparable expenses, such as venue and promoter shares, production, management or taxes, and it does not establish band-member take-home pay. Nor do the cited figures combine touring with recordings, publishing, merchandising, licensing or other income, so they cannot establish who earned the most over an entire career from all sources.
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The chart has a fixed cutoff, and later touring changes what a current cumulative total might look like. Pollstar’s December 2024 year-end coverage reported Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour above $1.14 billion gross and more than 10.3 million tickets by that point. That is a tour-specific figure, not a recalculation of every act’s total under the 1980–2022 chart’s scope.
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Other recent rankings use different periods and measures. The Associated Press, reporting on Pollstar’s chart through the end of 2025, said Coldplay led millennium touring acts by ticket sales with 24.8 million, followed by U2 at 20.2 million; Dave Matthews Band was also among the top five. Those ticket totals are not a replacement for the cumulative gross ranking above. Pollstar’s 2024 analysis also described Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour gross as an estimate, noting that actual box-office figures had not been reported in either of the two prior years. Estimated and reported totals should not be treated as identical kinds of evidence.
One-year earnings lists are another distinct measure. Forbes named U2 the top-earning musical act over the preceding 12 months in 2011, at $195 million; that period-specific earnings figure cannot be substituted for cumulative touring gross across decades.
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