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The 25 top-grossing tours of 2013 have been revealed, with 80s rock icons Bon Jovi schooling the rest of the list by taking home a massive £125 million on their Because We Can world tour.
Beating the Michael Jackson's Cirque De Soleil show which lands in second with £97 million, the £28 million extra Bon Jovi took home shows just how far ahead of the competition they are. To put things in perspective, the 'biggest band on the planet' One Direction who are yet to sell out a show only took home £48 million, whilst pop reprobate Justin Bieber took home £47.5 million.
In order to appropriate the rather extortionate amount of money the band played 90 sell-out gigs, which amounted to total sales of 2,178,170 tickets. The spanned 25 countries beginning in Washington D.C. in February, Britain in summer before ending in Brisbane tomorrow.
The only act who seemingly could resemble the monetary success of Bon Jovi are the Rolling Stones who played took home £77 million for 23 shows. Which would amount to a staggering 301 million pounds if they chose to play a series of 90 shows like Bon Jovi, a frankly jaw dropping amount of money.
The list of the top 25 tours of 2013 is as follows:
1) Bon Jovi - £125 Million
2) Micheal Jackson (Cirque De Soleil) - £97 Million
3) Pink - £91 Million
4) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - £90.5 Million
5) Rihanna - £85 Million
6) The Rolling Stones - £77 Million
7) Taylor Swift - £71 Million
8) Beyonce - £64 Million
9) Depeche Mode - £61 Million
10) Kenny Chesney - £56 Million
11) Roger Waters - £50 Million
12) One Direction - £48 Million
13) Justin Bieber - £47.5 Million
14) Madonna - £47 Million
15) Jay Z and Justin Timberlake - £43 Million
16) Paul McCartney - £42 Million
17) Fleetwood Mac - £38 Million
18) Maroon 5 - £33 Million
19) Dave Matthews Band - £32 Million
20) Andre Rieu - £30 Million
21) Jason Aldean - £29 million
22) Lady Gaga - £28.5 Million
23) Bruno Mars - £28 Million
24) Luke Bryan - £27 Million
25) Iron Maiden - £27.5 Million
