US EditionColdplay, U2 and Ed Sheeran top Pollstar's most popular touring artists of the new millennium
- On Monday, Pollstar published a top-25 ranking of the millennium by tickets sold from Jan. 1, 2001 through the end of 2025, placing Coldplay, U2 and Ed Sheeran as the top three acts.
- Using reported and estimated box-office data, Pollstar ranked tickets sold from Jan. 1, 2001 through the end of 2025, focusing on ticket sales rather than grosses.
- Coldplay sold 24.8 million tickets, leading the list, while U2 sold 20.2 million and Ed Sheeran sold 19.6 million.
- Taylor Swift has grossed over $3.1 billion in the new millennium and is the only woman in the top 10, with just four women in the top 25.
- Tours grossing over $1 billion are a 2020s phenomenon, first crossed by Taylor Swift in 2023; The Weeknd recently crossed $1 billion, while Coldplay's tour grosses nearly 2.5 billion.
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Pollstar magazine, which focuses on the professional side of event organization in the music industry, has published a list of the most popular concerts or tours by musicians of this millennium. The list is quite surprising.
U2, Bruce Springsteen among 'Pollstar’s' 25 most popular touring artist of the millennium
U2 on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live! ‘2017/Photo creedit: ABC/Randy Holmes U2, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Bon Jovi and Elton John are among the artists landing on Pollstar’s new list of the 25 most popular touring artists of the millennium. The list is based on worldwide ticket sales from 2001 to 2025. While Coldplay tops the list, U2 is just behind at #2, with 20.2 million tickets sold, which brought in a total gross of over $2.18 billion. S…
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Coldplay, U2 and Ed Sheeran top Pollstar's most popular touring artists of the new millennium
Pollstar has ranked the top 25 “Most Popular Touring Artists of the Millennium” based on ticket sales from Jan. 1, 2001, to the end of 2025. Leading the list?
Pollstar hails Coldplay as top touring artist of the millennium
We’ve got 975 years to wait until we know who’s really the biggest touring artist of the millennium. It’ll probably be Velvet Sundown holograms (or at least physical performance robots) knowing our luck. However, live-industry publication Pollstar is taking the end of 2025 as an opportunity to rank the biggest live acts of this millennium – so far. […] The post is from Music Ally.
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