The 10 Highest-Grossing Tours of 2026 So Far

Bea here, and I'll keep this short, because Remy's about to do the thing he loves most: read a scorecard out loud. One rule before we start — these aren't guesses and they aren't vibes. They're the concert business's own reported numbers, and Remy will tell you exactly what that word "reported" does and doesn't cover. Take it away, Remy.

How this list is ranked — the criteria, in plain words: Ranked by reported gross, highest at No. 1, from Pollstar's 2026 Mid-Year Top 100 Worldwide Top Touring Artists chart, for shows played November 13, 2025 to May 13, 2026 — that's Pollstar's mid-year chart window, and it's why this is a "so far" list and not a full-year one. Pollstar counts reported shows only: a gross here is ticket money from the shows venues, promoters and artist teams actually sent in. Shows nobody reported add nothing, free tickets don't count, and T-shirts and food never enter the number. Pollstar's chart ranks touring artists; where an artist's current tour has a name, we've used it. Figures are as Pollstar published them in June 2026.

The countdown

10. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — $58.5 million (14 shows, 229,678 tickets, about $254 a ticket) The second-priciest ticket on this whole list, behind only the Eagles. Fourteen nights, a quarter of a million people, and an average ticket north of $250 — that's not volume, that's devotion, priced accordingly. The E Street Band doesn't need 100 dates. It needs a room, a three-hour set and the people who've been coming since before half this chart was born.

9. Trans-Siberian Orchestra — $60.4 million (109 shows, 774,057 tickets, about $78 a ticket) Now flip the model upside down. A hundred and nine shows — nobody else in this top ten plays even a third as many — at the cheapest average ticket here, $78. TSO is a machine: a holiday season played at full throttle, arenas full of families who go every single year like it's a dentist appointment with lasers. Seventy-eight dollars times three-quarters of a million people is how you beat rock legends while smiling in a Christmas sweater.

8. Eagles — $69.7 million (15 shows, 235,458 tickets, about $296 a ticket) The most expensive average ticket in the top ten, and it isn't close. Two hundred and ninety-six dollars a head, fifteen shows, nearly seventy million dollars. The Eagles have turned scarcity into an art form — limited dates, premium rooms, and an audience that treats every announcement like it might be the last one. At these prices, fifteen nights out-earns most bands' entire year.

7. Cardi B — $72.1 million (36 shows, 464,635 tickets, about $155 a ticket) Thirty-six shows is a real working tour — no residency shortcuts, no handful of stadium miracles — and Cardi still lands seventh in the world. A $155 average ticket with nearly half a million sold says the audience showed up everywhere, not just in the big coastal rooms. That's the sound of a fanbase that travels with the show, city to city.

6. SEVENTEEN — $75.9 million (18 shows, 534,723 tickets, about $141 a ticket) Eighteen shows, over half a million tickets. Do the math on that room size — that's stadiums, night after night, with the kind of per-show crowd most acts on this list never see. K-pop's touring engine doesn't do small, and SEVENTEEN's mid-year line is the proof: fewer dates than Cardi, more tickets, more money.

5. Ed Sheeran — $105.2 million (21 shows, 811,233 tickets, about $129 a ticket) One man, a guitar and a loop pedal walk into a stadium — and walk out with the fifth-biggest gross on Earth. Sheeran's LOOP tour had only just started its North American leg when this chart closed, so this number is mostly the rest of the world talking: 811,233 tickets at a $129 average — the cheapest ticket in the top five, with crowds only Gaga and Bad Bunny outdrew. That's the Sheeran trick, and it's still working.

4. AC/DC — $120.3 million (15 shows, 907,831 tickets, about $132 a ticket) Fifteen shows. Nine hundred thousand tickets. Read those two numbers together and you're looking at pure stadium gravity from a band that formed before most of this chart's audience existed. A $132 average ticket is downright modest by 2026 standards — AC/DC fills the biggest rooms on the planet at a fair price and still banks $120 million before summer. Angus Young is in his seventies. The math doesn't care.

3. BTS — $139.7 million (13 shows, 661,216 tickets, about $211 a ticket) Thirteen shows is the fewest in this top ten, and BTS still takes third — because each of those nights was an event the size of a small city, at $211 a ticket. They also topped Pollstar's North American mid-year chart outright, with $104.2 million earned on this continent alone. Nobody on Earth converts anticipation into ticket money faster. Thirteen nights, $139.7 million: that's more than $10 million a show.

2. Lady Gaga — $209.4 million (41 shows, 982,530 tickets, about $213 a ticket) The MAYHEM Ball is the hardest-working big tour on this list: 41 reported shows, just shy of a million tickets, and still a $213 average ticket. Gaga didn't choose between scale and price — she took both. Nearly a million people paid premium money to stand in a room with her, and the tour still had months to run when this chart closed. On the North American chart she's second too, at $87.4 million. A monster, in the complimentary sense.

1. Bad Bunny — $225.2 million (27 shows, about 1.4 million tickets, about $150 a ticket) And then there's the top of the mountain. The "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour" grossed $225,160,693 across 27 reported shows — Pollstar's exact figure. He's the first Latin artist to pass a billion dollars in career box office, and Pollstar says these shows made him the fastest artist ever to get there. A $150 average ticket means this isn't a rich-room trick: it's stadium after stadium of ordinary fans, at a price a working person can argue with their bank account about, adding up to the biggest half-year in live music. Benito didn't just top the chart. He lapped the story everyone else is telling about 2026.

Bea again, for the close. Two things to carry out of this list: the top two are separated by about $16 million, and everybody else is separated from them by about $70 million. And remember what Remy said at the top — this is reported money only, counted Pollstar's way, through May 13. The second half of the year gets its own chart, and at least one name on this page is going to have opinions about it. We'll rank that one too.