List of highest-grossing concert tours
Highest-grossing tours of all time
This list represents the top 20 grossing tours (by actual gross, not adjusted for inflation) of all time.

List of highest-grossing concert tours

Section Title: Highest-grossing tours of all time
Table Section Text: This list represents the top 20 grossing tours (by actual gross, not adjusted for inflation) of all time.

Rank	Actual gross	Gross adjusted for inflation (2019 $)	Artist	Tour name	Year(s)	Shows	Attendance	Average gross per show (millions)	Average attendance per show	Ref.

1	$736,421,584	$820,194,986	U2	U2 360° Tour	2009–11	110	7,272,046	$6.7	66,110

2	$573,300,000	$573,300,000	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour	2017– present	205	6,386,364	$2.71	31,153

3	$563,300,000	$563,300,000	Guns N' Roses	Not in This Lifetime... Tour	2016–18	159	4,377,126	$3.85	35,017

4	$558,255,524	$674,547,559	The Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang Tour	2005–07	144	4,680,000	$3.8	32,500

5	$523,033,675	$546,023,369	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour	2016–17	114	5,389,586	$4.59	45,128

6	$458,673,798	$493,336,432	Roger Waters	The Wall Live	2010–13	219	4,129,863	$2.09	18,858

7	$441,121,000	$506,821,305	AC/DC	Black Ice World Tour	2008–10	167	4,846,965	$2.6	29,023

8	$407,713,266	$476,474,639	Madonna	Sticky & Sweet Tour	2008–09	85	3,545,899	$4.79	41,716

9	$389,047,636	$483,515,954	U2	Vertigo Tour	2005–06	131	4,719,021	$2.96	35,259

10	$364,300,000	$364,300,000	Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood	World Tour	2014–17	390	6,443,727	$0.96	14,669

11	$362,000,000	$421,251,623	The Police	The Police Reunion Tour	2007–08	156	3,300,912	$2.3	21,160

12	$355,600,000	$415,280,347	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	Wrecking Ball World Tour	2012–13	136	3,650,535	$2.8	18,744

13	$345,700,000	$345,700,000	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour	2018	53	2,888,892	$6.5	54,507

14	$320,000,000	$526,158,550	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour	1994–95	124	6,336,776	$2.6	51,103

15	$316,990,940	$324,005,537	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour 2017	2017	51	2,713,136	$6.3	53,198

16	$311,000,000	$423,574,349	The Rolling Stones	Licks Tour	2002–03	115	3,470,945	$2.6	30,182

17	$306,500,000	$319,972,060	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	The River Tour 2016	2016–17	89	2,667,775	$4.0	29,020

18	$305,158,363	$333,024,687	Madonna	The MDNA Tour	2012	88	2,212,345	$3.47	25,140

19	$301,000,000	$301,000,000	Billy Joel	Billy Joel in Concert	2014–present	120	2,065,755	$2.2	22,205

20	$290,178,452	$307,106,208	One Direction	Where We Are Tour	2014	69	3,439,560	$4.2	49,848

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The Rolling Stones held the highest-grossing tours Voodoo Lounge Tour, and A Bigger Bang Tour.

final_sentence: The Rolling Stones held the highest-grossing tours Voodoo Lounge Tour, and A Bigger Bang Tour.