Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time.
The highest-grossinglive music artists (also known as "highest-grossingtouring artists")[a] are reported byBillboard andPollstar boxscores. The cumulative figures may be incomplete because not all concert dates are reported by those publications. For simplification, the figures are presented innominal dollars without being adjusted forinflation, hence they do not reflect the real value of revenue from older concerts, and contemporary musicians may be overrepresented.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according toPollstar.U2,Coldplay,Bruce Springsteen, andElton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according toBillboard Boxscore. The concert industry is very male-dominated,[1] and only fivewomen have grossed more than $1 billion (as of 2024), withMadonna being the first.[2]
U2 is the highest-grossing live music act of the 2010s and the second highest of the 2000s.Madonna is the highest-grossing solo live music artist of the 2000s.Bruce Springsteen is the highest-grossing male solo live music artist of the 2000s.Ed Sheeran is the highest-grossing solo live music artist of the 2010s.
^The Rolling Stones grossed $2,165,280,638 as of 2022 according toPollstar.[4] They expanded the number with $235,077,193 in 2024.[5]
^Bruce Springsteen grossed $1,527,407,373 as of 2022 according toPollstar.[4] He expanded the number with $379,496,085 in 2023 and $251,296,432 in 2024.[7][8]
^Metallica grossed $1.4 billion as of 2019 according toPollstar.[10] They expanded the number with at least $21,897,870 in 2022[11][12] and at least $455,668,518 during theM72 World Tour in the years from 2023 to 2025,[13][14] although there is no complete data for 2022 from Pollstar.
^Iron Maiden grossed $1 billion as of 2025 according toPollstar.[16] The attendance number is used from the 2025 Pollstar report, using only data from the year 2001 and onwards.[3]
^Metallica grossed $593,100,000 as of February 2019, according toBillboard.[28] They expanded the number with $177,434,939 at the end of 2019,[29] $43,398,993 in 2022,[30] $125,800,000 in 2023,[31] $175,200,000 in 2024,[32] $136,200,000 in 2025[33] and additional $41,500,000 in November 2025, but Billboard counts that in the 2026 touring year.[34]
^Majority ofCeline Dion's figure came from her Las Vegasconcert residencies. She remains the highest-grossing residency artist of all time, with a total of $681 million as of 2019, according toBillboard.[36]
^Guns N' Roses grossed $774,100,000 as of October 2021, according toBillboard.[37] They expanded the number with $93,383,197 in 2022,[38] $96,200,000 in 2023[39] and $95,600,000 in 2025.[33]
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