Coldplay’s long-running “Music of the Spheres Tour” just keeps breaking records. After the band’s multi-continent trek surpassed Elton John to become the highest-grossing rock tour in music history, it’s now the first rock tour — and second tour ever (obviously behind Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour”) — to gross over $1 billion dollars.
Billboard confirmed the new accolade after analyzing July “Boxscore” data, which calculates the top-grossing tours of each month. According to the data, Coldplay brought in $72.2 million and sold 575,000 tickets across 11 shows in July, leading to the fourth time Coldplay has topped the Boxscore charts and enabling the band to surpass the $1 billion grossing mark.
Since beginning in 2022, Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres World Tour” hasn’t just broken the $1 billion grossing threshold — it’s sold nearly 9.3 million tickets through August 25th. With 15 dates left on the tour this year and a typical average of 50,000 tickets sold for each night, Billboard estimates that Coldplay’s tour will surpass 10 million tickets sold.
They’d become the first group to achieve such an accolade, and the first act of any kind — if not for Taylor Swift. Her ongoing “The Eras Tour” hasn’t reported the exact figures yet, but Billboard estimates she’s approaching the $2 billion grossing mark, and will inevitably reach the 10 million tickets accolade as well.
Coldplay have four shows left on the European leg of their “Music of the Spheres Tour,” which kick off tonight in Dublin. They’ll then head over to Australia and New Zealand for the tour’s final leg in October. You can help Coldplay feel like maybe, just maybe, they’ll have a chance at beating out Taylor Swift for the highest grossing tour of all time by getting tickets here.
Meanwhile, a new era is just beginning for Coldplay: They’ve got a new album, Moon Music, coming out on October 4th. Perhaps the ensuing tour they’ll embark on for that album will be even more lucrative — or, Taylor Swift will somehow string together yet another enormous tour to retain the top spot (given her track record, we wouldn’t put it past her).