For the second consecutive year, Coldplay rules the year-end Boxscore charts. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Music of the Spheres World Tour grossed $464.9 million in the 2025 tracking period, enough to land at No. 1 on the annual Top Tours recap.
The 2025 year-end tracking period includes all shows, worldwide, between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025. International grosses are converted to USD.
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This is Coldplay’s second straight year on top, joining Ed Sheeran (2018-19) and The Rolling Stones (1998-99) as the only acts to ever go back-to-back. Moreover, it’s the band’s fourth consecutive year in the top five, dating back to the ongoing world tour’s launch in 2022. In total, the trek has brought in over $1.5 billion and sold 13.1 million tickets, selling more tickets than any concert tour in history. With more dates teased for 2027 and beyond, it is likely to challenge for the all-time gross record, currently held by Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour.
By default, Coldplay leads its genre-specific list, finishing at No. 1 on Top Rock Tours for the third consecutive year. Imagine Dragons ($241.6 million) follows as the only other rock act in the overall top 10.
Just as Coldplay repeats at No. 1 on Top Tours and Top Rock Tours, it logs a third consecutive year at No. 1 on Top Ticket Sales, ranked by total attendance. Across its 59 shows during the tracking period, the tour sold 3.5 million tickets, improving upon 3 million in 2024 and 3.2 million in 2023.
Coldplay’s 2025 – or, more accurately, its 2025 tracking year – included shows on four continents. The band started in Oceania with eight nights in Australia and three in New Zealand (Oct. – Nov. 2024). Then, they traveled to Asia for January shows in United Arab Emirates and India, plus stops in Hong Kong and Goyang, South Korea in April.
On May 31, Coldplay kicked off a 17-show run in North America, including eight-figure stops in Las Vegas, Miami, and Toronto. Finally, there were 12 shows in England, dominated by 10 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium.
The Wembley shows collectively grossed $131.4 million and sold 791,000 tickets. Not only does that land at No. 1 on this year’s Top Boxscores roundup but finishes as the biggest reported single-venue engagement by a headline artist ever. That record applies to artists on tour, and does not include extended residencies, like Celine Dion at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace or Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden.
At No. 1 on Top Tours, Top Ticket Sales, Top Boxscores, and Top Rock Tours, Coldplay completes a clean sweep of all the year-end touring charts for which it is eligible.
Five tours grossed more than $300 million in 2025, breaking the previous record of three such treks in 2023 and 2024. Beyoncé is No. 2 with $407.6 million on the Cowboy Carter Tour. Queen Bey accumulated that sum in just 32 shows, becoming the highest-grossing country tour in Boxscore history.
More record-breakers follow, with Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s Grand National Tour at No. 3 with $358.7 million. It is the highest-grossing co-headline tour in history, surpassing Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour from 2018. After Lamar and SZA completed their collaborative shows in North America and Europe, the Grand National Tour continued in Latin America (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) as solo shows for Lamar. He’ll conclude the tour in Sydney later this week (Dec. 11). His solo dates are counted separate from the co-headline stops.
The Weeknd and Shakira round out the top five with $336.7 million and $327.4 million, respectively. The former has already earned over $700 million since launching the After Hours Til Dawn Tour in 2022, which became the highest-grossing and best-selling R&B tour ever earlier this year. The latter continues her 2025 trek this weekend (Dec. 14) in Argentina.
