{"id":791366,"date":"2018-12-17T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770099"},"modified":"2018-12-17T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:11:54","slug":"ed-sheeran-earned-more-on-tour-in-2018-than-anyone-else-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ed-sheeran-earned-more-on-tour-in-2018-than-anyone-else-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Earned More on Tour In 2018 Than Anyone Else In 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pollstar released its year-end report on Monday, and Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDivide\u201d Tour sits definitively at the top. The singer\u2019s global tour is the most money-making jaunt in any single year of Pollstar\u2019s 30-year history, according to the box office research group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sheeran, who performed mostly solo onstage but had Elton John come on as a guest vocalist at select events,\u00a0sold\u00a04,860,482 tickets across 53 cities and 94 shows for an all-time record gross of $432 million. That amount is well ahead of the money made in 2018 by Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cReputation\u201d tour ($345.1 million) and Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cOn the Run II\u201d tour ($254.1 million). While U2\u2019s historic chart-topping \u201c360\u201d tour grossed $736.4 million, it took over two years to reach that mark.<\/p>\n

But the big accomplishments this year don\u2019t adorn Shereen alone: According to Pollstar, 2018 saw the Top 10 of the Worldwide Tours chart surpass $2 billion in grosses for the first time, up from 2017\u2019s $1.8 million, as the whole concert industry saw a (once more) record-setting amount of $10.4 billion. In sum: Live events just keep swelling.<\/p>\n

The report also highlighted the domination of Live Nation over the live events industry: The promoter giant sold 49.6 million tickets, far ahead of AEG Presents with 11.6 million tickets and Messina Touring<\/a> Group with 5.3 million tickets.<\/p>\n

2018 Top 10 Worldwide Tours:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gross (In $ Millions) \u2014 Artist \u2014 Tickets Sold<\/strong>
$432.4 \u2014 Ed Sheeran \u2014 4,860,482
345.1 \u2014 Taylor Swift \u2014 2,888,892
254.1 \u2014 Jay-Z \/ Beyonc\u00e9 \u2014 2,169,050
169.2 \u2014 Pink \u2014 1,285,411
167.6 \u2014 Bruno Mars \u2014 1,290,438
166.0 \u2014 Eagles \u2014 964,245
151.0 \u2014 Justin Timberlake \u2014 1,193,365
131.3 \u2014 Roger Waters \u2014 1,448,771
126.2 \u2014 U2 \u2014 927,034*
116.6 \u2014 The Rolling Stones \u2014 750,914<\/p>\n

2018 Top 10 North American Tours:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gross (In $ Millions) \u2014 Artist \u2014 Tickets Sold<\/strong>
$277.3\u00a0\u2014 Taylor Swift\u00a0\u2014 1,268,706
166.4 \u2014 Jay-Z \/ Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0\u2014 1,298,038
166.0 \u2014 Eagles\u00a0\u2014 964,245
114.4 \u2014 Kenny Chesney\u00a0\u2014 1,297,731
110.0 \u2014 Justin Timberlake\u00a0\u2014 791,780
105.0 \u2014 Ed Sheeran\u00a0\u2014 1,136,497
97.8 \u2014 Journey \/ Def Leppard \u2014 1,000,272
95.3 \u2014 Pink \u2014 688,558
88.3\u00a0\u2014 Springsteen On Broadway \u2014 173,461
79.0\u00a0\u2014 Drake\u00a0\u2014 678,410<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pollstar released its year-end report on Monday, and Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cDivide\u201d Tour sits definitively at the top. The singer\u2019s global tour is the most money-making jaunt in any single year of Pollstar\u2019s 30-year history, according to the box office research group. Sheeran, who performed mostly solo onstage but had Elton John come on as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:35:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}