The highest-grossing
live music artists (also known as "highest-grossing
touring artists")[a] are reported by Billboard and Pollstar boxscores. The cumulative figures may be incomplete because not all concert dates are reported by those publications. For simplification, the figures are presented in
nominal dollars without being adjusted for
inflation, hence they do not reflect the real value of revenue from older concerts.
The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music act of all time, collecting over $2.5 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. The band is followed by
U2 and
Elton John, who both also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue. The concert industry is very male-dominated,[1] and only four
women have grossed more than $1 billion (as of 2024), with
Madonna being the first.[2] According to Pollstar,
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing woman with over $1.96 billion.
All-time ranking
Pollstar
Artists with concert revenue of over US$1 billion according to Pollstar
^Ed Sheeran grossed $922,361,663 as of 2019 according to Pollstar.[7] He expanded the number with $251,000,000 in 2022 and $268,017,633 in 2023.[8][5]
^Bruce Springsteen grossed $1,196,116,507 as of May 2014, according to Billboard.[12] He expanded the number with $255,364,196 in 2016 and $37,972,463 in 2017.[13]
^Ed Sheeran grossed $848.3 million as of 2019 according to Billboard.[16] He expanded the number with $417.67 million in 2022 and 2023.[17]
^Majority of
Celine Dion's figure came from her Las Vegas
concert residencies. She remains the highest-grossing residency artist of all time, with a total of $681 million as of 2019, according to Billboard.[19]