Ranked: The 10 Highest-Grossing Concert Tours of All Time

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has been a trending topic worldwide since its first show in March 2023.

The tour has already become the highest-grossing ever, surpassing $1 billion in revenue, outpacing Elton John’s five-year farewell tour, which ended in 2023 and grossed $939 million.

In addition, the Eras Tour also set various stadium records, including the highest three-day attendance totals ever at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium (217,635) and Dallas’ AT&T Stadium (210,607), and single-day records at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium (71,000), Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium (73,117), and Seattle’s Lumen Field (72,171).

Here, we list the top 10 highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The data comes from Billboard, Forbes, and Pollstar rankings. Figures are not adjusted for inflation.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Grosses $17 Million Per Show

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour grossed about $1.04 billion from 60 shows performed in 2023, and that’s not including any numbers from the ongoing tour in 2024.

Meanwhile, Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour comes in second with almost $1 billion but with 328 shows—more than five times the number of shows performed in the Eras Tour in this comparison.

RankArtistTour NameGross Revenue 1Taylor SwiftEras Tour (2023-24)$1.04 billion (so far) 2Elton JohnFarewell Yellow Brick Road Tour (2018-20, 2022-23)$939 million 3Ed SheeranThe ÷ (Divide) Tour (2017-19)$776 million 4U2U2 360° Tour (2009-11)$736 million 5ColdplayMusic of the Spheres World Tour (2022-23)$618 million 6Harry StylesLove on Tour (2021-23)$617 million 7Guns N’ RosesNot In This Lifetime… Tour (2016-19)$584 million 8BeyoncéRenaissance World Tour (2023)$580 million 9The Rolling StonesA Bigger Bang Tour (2005-07)$558 million 10The Rolling StonesNo Filter Tour (2017-19, 2021)$547 million

In third place, Ed Sheeran’s The ÷ (Divide) Tour (2017-19) amassed $776 million, followed by U2’s 360° Tour (2009-11), which had $736 million. Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour (2022-23), with $618 million, completes the top five.

Combined, The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang Tour (2005-07) and No Filter Tour (2017-19, 2021) also generated over

Charted: Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S., by Country of Origin

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More than any other nation, the U.S. is home to over 46 million immigrants. Of these, over 11 million are unauthorized immigrants.

This graphic visualizes the countries of origin for the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S., based on 2021 estimates from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), published in September 2023. Because these estimates are based on 2021 figures, they don’t capture the record number of border encounters witnessed in 2022 and 2023.

Mexico’s Overall Share is Declining

According to the MPI, Mexico accounted for 7.7 million unauthorized immigrants in 2008. This suggests a 32% decline to the latest estimate of 5.2 million.

CountryRegionUnauthorized Immigrants 🇲🇽 MexicoNorth America5,203,000 🇬🇹 GuatemalaNorth America780,000 🇸🇻 El SalvadorNorth America751,000 🇭🇳 HondurasNorth America564,000 🇮🇳 IndiaAsia400,000 🇵🇭 PhilippinesAsia309,000 🇻🇪 VenezuelaSouth America251,000 🇨🇳 ChinaAsia241,000 🇨🇴 ColombiaSouth America201,000 🇧🇷 BrazilSouth America195,000 🌍 Rest of World2,322,000 Total11,217,000

Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras follow Mexico. According to the Migration Policy Institute, immigration from these three countries has been the most significant contributor to the growth of the Central American-born population in the U.S. since 1980. Roughly 86% of Central Americans in the United States in 2021 were born in one of these three countries.

India comes in fifth. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an unprecedented number of undocumented Indian immigrants have been crossing U.S. borders on foot in recent years.

Among the factors for the increase in Indian immigration to the U.S. are the overall growth in global migration since the pandemic, oppression of minority communities in India, and extreme visa backlogs.

Learn more about unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. by our breakdown by U.S. state found here.

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● What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Ruchir Sharma
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Many observers think the era of easy money ended with the recent return of inflation, because it forced central banks to raise interest rates. But this era was not defined only by low rates and did not begin only in 2008; it encompasses the suite of habits — borrow, bail out, regulate, stimulate — that have been building for a century. It is not over until old habits change.

● How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
Peter S. Goodman
Review via The Wall Street Journal
In “How the World Ran Out of Everything,” a colorful and very readable look at how the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc with supply chains, Peter S. Goodman makes clear that he doesn’t think much of outsourcing, offshoring and just-in-time manufacturing. He contends that the late deliveries and barren retail shelves of 2021 and 2022 were the consequence of a yearslong effort to cut costs and boost profits by shifting production overseas. “The executives of publicly traded corporations and their hired enablers in the political sphere have played make-believe with the world economy,” he writes. As he describes the situation, the past few decades of globalization, at least insofar as manufacturing is concerned, were pretty much a mistake.

● The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
Nathaniel Popper
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“Meme stock” mania peaked in 2021, when amateur traders, geeing each other up online, jacked up the price of stocks like GameStop and AMC. In his readable, propulsive history of WallStreetBets — the Reddit forum at the heart of the stock-trading craze — Nathaniel Popper argues that the effects of that mania are still being felt.
Popper recounts the history of the forum — founded in 2012 — in detail. His excellent access to chat logs and historical Reddit comments give an inside perspective on the long rise preceding the forum’s mainstream notoriety. Nonetheless, the book hits its straps in the chapters devoted to trading in GameStop shares, whose whiplash price moves dented hedge funds, kinked financial plumbing and made amateur trading front-page news.

● Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World
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Zannoni, the executive vice-chairman of Prada’s board of directors, debuts with an edifying examination of how debt has shaped banking throughout history. Arguing that “the true nature of modern money…

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