Thread 127069121

8th biggest tour ever adjusted for inflation:

Taylor Swift (2023–2024) $2.1b
Coldplay (2022–2025) $1.4b*
U2 (2009–2011) $1.0b
Elton John (2018–2023) $969m
Ed Sheeran (2017–2019) $955m
The Rolling Stones (2005–2007) $847m
Ed Sheeran (2022–2025) $800m*
Bruce Springsteen (2023–2025) $730m
Guns N' Roses (2016–2019) $718m
Pink (2023–2024) $694m
Coldplay (2016–2017) $671m
The Rolling Stones (1994–1995) $640m
AC/DC (2008–2010) $637m
Harry Styles (2021–2023) $637m
The Rolling Stones (2017–2021) $634m
Roger Waters - The Wall Live (2010–2013) $620m
Céline Dion (2003–2007, Vegas residency) $619m
U2 (2005–2006) $607m
Madonna (2008–2009) $602m
Beyoncé (2023) $598m

*ongoing tours

>>127069121 (OP)
And still a terrible songwriter with the fakest working man's persona.

You guys listen to the latest box set? I've been going through it a little at a time, there's some good shit on there.

>>127069121 (OP)
Wow, Beyonce really has fallen off.

>>127069121 (OP)
I don’t understand how Coldplay’s tours are more successful as their albums get worse

>>127069121 (OP)
I don't care for Taylor Swift but I'll be fucking damned if fucking Coldplay of all bands takes the top spot from her

>>127069121 (OP)
>Pink
>2024
>$694m
Is she still a big deal? Am I out of touch?

>>127070709
You have to understand anon, the people who go watch these musicians live on tour and people who actually give a shit about music are almost two completely seperate, mutually exclusive markets. The Southwestern soccer moms taking their daughters to see acts like Pink are just there for the spectacle and theatrics, not for the music itself per se

>>127070709
not a fan but she has a bunch of hits and has a rep for putting on a high effort live show (flying around on wires and such)

>>127069315
FPBP

>>127069121 (OP)
>Ed Sheeran (2022–2025) $800m*
let's be honest, it was worth being passed around jamie fox's disco buttfuck club for that

>>127070709
it is nostalgia for women who were 14 when Pink came out. slightly dorks, unpopular unpretty teenage girls never forgot how pink represented them. now they go to pink concerts to relive feeling good and accepted as teenagers.

>>127070625
globalism. coldplay are the soundtrack to globohomo. they are the english language music for non-english countries.

>>127069352
>You guys listen to the latest box set?
no. i usually wait till its in a thrift for $1.00. thats really how i got all his cds. i just picked up another copy of his live 75 - 85 3 disc set because it was mint and so cheap

>>127070625
same as the Rolling Stones i.e. classic songs, Coldplay's last album is #119 of 2024 on Spotify

>>127070635
>if fucking Coldplay of all bands takes the top spot from her
they won't, the tour will end up with close to $1.5b (with 50% more shows than her)

>>127069121 (OP)
the concept of what constitutes a 'tour' is totally arbitrary.
i mean: do you think taylor was even on 'tour' during 'eras'? she'd just fly in and do stadium shows over the weekend in some city and fly home the rest of the week. some 'tour'.
there should be a better gauge of who is most packing them in than comparing some mega-celeb's fake 'tour' over four years with another mega-celeb's fake 'tour' over, say two years.

>>127069121 (OP)
During the last two elections, Springsteen was hosting a radio station over here and coming up to the election, he made no secret about the fact that he wanted us to vote for the Democrats
To be clear: I'm living in Ireland and this station was only broadcasting in the Dublin area. Actual brainrot

>>127069121 (OP)
*blocks your path*

Springsteen pretended to have COVID to cancel three gigs when he'd actually glued his wig on the wrong way.

Springsteen once said to his wife, "Who puts the yummy in your tummy, mummy...me or Bowie?" and when his wife said, "Well, I do like David Bowie..." he hit her in the face with a glass.

When Springsteen played in India, he tried to learn Hindi for "India rocks!" but accidentally said "India my impotence pills"

>>127069121 (OP)

Springsteen hasn't put out a good album since 2019.

>>127069315
>terrible songwriter
opinion discarded, buttblasted /pol/ tourist MAGA trash need to be a little more creative if you're gonna bag on the boss.

He's a brilliant and prolific songwriter. Maybe fuck off back to /pol/ and worship your pedo protector president

>>127070625
>>127070635
>Coldplay
who knows, maybe their "kiss cam" will become a huge draw. or maybe they'll get perceived as The Band To Take Your Side Piece to If You're Cheating

>>127075964
Take your meds, faggot

>>127072846
based retard