Harry Styles wrapped his Love on Tour on Nov. 28 in Long Island, N.Y. After 42 U.S. shows, Love on Tour closed with $94.7 million and 719,000 tickets sold.
The trek began on Sept. 4 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas with $1.7 million and 13,400 tickets sold. Sold-out and among the strongest arena earnings of the year until that point, it was still a relatively modest start for the shaggy-haired boy-bander turned gender-bending pop superstar. By the end of the run, he was averaging $2.25 million and 17,100 tickets each night.
The tour’s earnings and attendance highlights — as is often the case for mainstream arena runs — were in New York and Los Angeles. Styles played five shows at Madison Square Garden, altogether earning $13.8 million and selling 93,700 tickets. That included three shows on Oct. 3-4 and 16 with support act Jenny Lewis, and another two shows on Oct. 30-31, branded Harryween, featuring Orville Peck.
In California, he played three shows at Inglewood’s The Forum (Nov. 17 and 19-20), serenading a combined 50,700 fans to the tune of $6.6 million. Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville each follow with more than $4 million each from respective double-headers in September and October.
Styles sprinkled Billboard’s 2021 year-end Boxscore charts with the year’s No. 3 tour, placements on the Top Boxscores ranking for the MSG shows, and a finish as the Top Pop Tour. Those charts cover shows played between Nov. 1, 2020-Oct. 31, 2021, meaning that Styles’ $64.7 million annual total excluded his 13 November shows, which brought the tour’s final gross to nearly $95 million.
Those November shows not only include The Forum’s trifecta, but a closing show at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. on Nov. 28. The venue only opened nine days prior, and Styles provided the arena its second musical performance, after a benefit show headlined by Chicago. That finale earned $3.2 million, the highest single-night gross of the entire tour.
Love on Tour was Styles’ second headlining trek on his own. Harry Styles: Live on Tour played arenas throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe in 2017-18. That trek’s five-continent, 74-date sprawl still was surpassed by his recent tour, confined to the U.S. (for now) by prickly international borders due to the evolving global response to COVID-19. Love on Tour earned $63.7 million worldwide by its closing show in L.A. on July 14, 2018, dwarfed by the $94.7 million take of Love on Tour in 2018.
Both tours follow an extremely bankable half-decade as a member of One Direction. The pop group had evolved to global stadium status by 2014’s Where We Are Tour and 2015’s On the Road Again Tour. But an apples-to-apples comparison of Styles’ U.S. tour and the American leg of 1D’s On the Road Again gives a significant advantage to the soloist. In 17 stateside stadium dates, One Direction earned $57.5 million, just 61% of Love on Tour’s final gross. When the world opens its doors again, Styles’ domestic pace may lead the way to bigger global success than ever.
