A familiar group of faces peaks Bulletin boardNovember's monthly tour report: For the third time in 2024 and fifth overall, Coldplay are No. 1 in Top Tours. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the British quartet grossed $71.1 million and sold 609,000 tickets across nine shows in November.
Claiming their fifth monthly win dating back to the chart's launch in February 2019, Coldplay are only behind Bad Bunny and Elton John, who have seven titles each. Beyoncé and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra have each headlined four times, with the latter currently in the midst of its annual holiday tour.
Coldplay's November tour swept across Oceania, with two shows in Melbourne, Australia. four in Sydney; and three in Auckland, New Zealand. The four dates at Sydney's Accor Stadium grossed a mammoth $37.4 million, earning the No. 1 place in Top Boxscores. The Oakland streak ($19.3 million) follows at No. 2. The Melbourne shows earned $14.4 million on November 1-2, but were a continuation of a four-night engagement that began in late October. Had all those shows dropped in November, the band's $28.8 million in revenue would have given Coldplay a clean sweep of the top three.
The latest leg of the Music of the Spheres world tour is, of course, the continuation of a three-year transcontinental trek. Dated from its March 2022 opening in San Jose, Costa Rica, it has grossed more than $1.1 billion and sold 10.3 million tickets. This is a larger attendance number for any tour in music history.
It was a hard-earned all-time record, with Coldplay meeting worldwide demand. The tour included sold-out stadium shows on five continents, with a further 48 shows planned for 2025 in Asia, Europe and North America. Watch the video below to see the band's road to 10 million tickets, one international city at a time.
Of the tour's three-year total, $400.9 million and 3 million tickets came from the 2024 tracking period (October 1, 2023-September 30, 2024), knocking Coldplay to No. 1 position Bulletin boardTop tours and year-end ticket sales charts. It is the second consecutive year for Chris Martin & Co. at the top of the last list.
Pearl Jam follows at No. 2 on Top Tours, with $41.8 million and 314,000 tickets sold in November. Also in Australia and New Zealand, the band's run included two dates in Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney, plus one in Carrara (a Gold Coast suburb).
Coldplay and Pearl Jam each played a pair of shows at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium, combining for more than $30 million and second place on Top Stadiums, behind only Sydney's Accor Stadium. In total, the two complexes helped fuel four places for Oceania in the Stadium Rankings.
Three former Top Tour champions round out the top five, with Zach Bryan, P!nk and Paul McCartney at No. 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Bryan and P!nk found themselves in the top five of the year-end Top Tours and Top Ticket Sales rankings, with their recent November totals already positioning them well for the 2025 charts.
While Oceania proved dominant as a continent, Mexico City is the most prevalent city in November's charts, with three of the top 10 spots in Top Boxscores. Two festivals – Corona Capital and Coca Cola Flow Fest – are at No. 5 and 9, while McCartney is at No. 7 with two performances at Estadio GNP Seguros. All three engagements yielded eight-figure revenues.
Las Vegas isn't far behind, with three of the top 15 spots. Billy Joel and Sting earned $11.4 million from a single show at Allegiant Stadium, earning the No. 8. Additionally, two weekends of Sphere shows by the Eagles brought in a total of $18.5 million, split between Nos. 11 and 13.
Sure to top off December's fair, November set the stage for the holiday season. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is the No. 10 on Top Tours, while Mariah Carey is No. 17 with the first performances of her autumn tour. Additionally, New York's Radio City Music Hall soars atop the Top Venues ($5,001-$10,000 capacity) with $33.7 million — more than seven times the No. 2 — with the start of its annual Christmas extravaganza.
