Coldplay have broken world records on their Music of the Spheres world tour, even with nearly 50 more concerts planned for next year. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the world trek has sold more tickets than any tour in history since its March 2022 launch, at 10.3 million — so far.
The Music of the Spheres World Tour was a global event, selling out stadiums on five continents. Half of the tour's 175 concerts took place in Europe, where it sold 5.2 million tickets across 87 shows. It has added 1.8 million in South America, 1.6 million in North America, 884,000 in Asia and 848,000 in Australia.
Not only have Coldplay performed all over the world, but the demand has also spread normally. Among the tour's top 10 stops, all five continents are represented, from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Gothenburg, Sweden and Singapore.
The biggest exhibition of the tour so far was a run of 10 shows from October 25 to November 8, 2022, at the Estadio Unico Ciudad de la Plata in Buenos Aires. These dates sold 627,000 tickets, marking the best-selling engagement in Boxscore history.
At more than half the stops on the Music of the Spheres World Tour — 39 of 64 — Coldplay sold over 100,000 tickets. In 51 of these cities, the band played multiple shows. Notably, 10 of the 13 cities where she played one night only are in the United States, while just eight of her top 10 markets are predominantly non-English-speaking locations.
Watch the clip below to see Coldplay cross the world on their way to record ticket sales.
The Music of the Spheres World Tour has sold more than 3 million tickets and raised more than $300 million in each of the three years since its launch. In the 2024 chart year, characterized by performances from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024, Coldplay earned $400.9 million and sold 3.02 million tickets, earning the top spot on Bulletin boardYear-end Top Tours (ranked by gross) and Top Ticket Sales (ranked by attendance) charts. It's the band's second year in a row at No. 1 in the second rating.
Dating back nearly 40 years, all Boxscore charts are based on reported numbers Bulletin board. Data is reported from a variety of official industry sources, from artist managers and agents to promoters and venue executives. Reporting is voluntary and some artists, venues and promoters choose to withhold data from chart representation. Although the two-year totals for Taylor Swift's The Eras tour were published by the New York Times — $2.08 billion, making it the highest-grossing tour in history and nearly 10.2 million tickets — they were not submitted to Billboard Boxscore for chart suitability. excluding the tour from the end of 2024 charts.
Since its inception, the Music of the Spheres World Tour has grossed $1.14 billion. That separates it by more than $900 million from The Eras Tour, despite Coldplay outselling Swift by more than 150,000 tickets. Both tours have played a similar number of shows (149 for Swift, 175 for Coldplay, so far) and charted familiar routes around five continents.
Spread evenly across its three-year run, The Music of the Spheres World Tour has an average ticket price of $110.46. The turning point was in Asia, where 16 shows averaged $146.43, while the other end of the spectrum is the first leg of the 11-show Central American tour ($77.74).
Coldplay's 2025 calendar has 48 concerts scheduled, ranging from Toronto to Hong Kong and Navi Mumbai to London, where the tour will likely conclude with 10 shows at Wembley Stadium. Already the best-selling tour in history, The Music of the Spheres World Tour will undoubtedly extend its lead next year, approaching 13 million tickets in total.
Dating back to Coldplay's first Boxscore show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on February 8, 2001 ($11,000, 900 tickets), the band has earned more than $2 billion and sold 21.1 million tickets.
