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# Ed Sheeran Tops Pollstar 2018 Global Touring Chart, Taylor Swift Dominates US
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/ed-sheeran-tops-pollstar-2018-global-touring-chart-taylor-swift-dominates-us/
- Published: 2018-12-17T16:42:53.000Z
- Updated: 2018-12-17T16:42:53.000Z
- Description: Tour trade publication Pollstar tracked more than 44,000 live concerts in 2018 logging in a record-setting $10.4 billion total gross and 152.1 million tickets sold. Ed Sheeran topped the year. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/12/ed-sheeran-tops-pollstar-2018-global-touring-cha
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, concerts, The Live Stage, Touring, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![image from cdn.pixabay.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad37f3a4f200c-200wi "image from cdn.pixabay.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad37f3a4f200c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Tour trade publication Pollstar tracked more than 44,000 live concerts in 2018 logging in a record-setting $10.4 billion total gross and 152.1 million tickets sold. Ed Sheeran topped the year grossing a whopping $432 million, an all time touring record.Pollstar's Top 100 World Wide tours totaled $5.6 billion U.S. dollars with 59.8 million tickets sold to 3,691 events. The Top Ten of the Worldwide Tour chart surpassed $2 billion in grosses for the first time.The Top 100 North American tours totaled $3.7 billion U.S. dollars with 40 million tickets sold to 3,025 event records

**• Ed Sheeran** set the all-time touring record in a calendar year with an astronomical gross of $432 million. Sheeran’s 2018 tour numbers, when combined with 2017, is already the third highest-grossing tour ($554.6M) behind U2’s "360" ($735 M) and the Rolling Stones’ “A Bigger Bang” ($558M) tours.

**• Taylor Swift**’s “Reputation” Stadium Tour is No. 2 on the Top 100 Worldwide tours chart, grossing $345 million. Swift topped the Top 100 North American tours chart, grossing $277.3 million and nearing a $1 billion lifetime touting gross. 

**• Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift’s combined tours** grosses of $777.5 million makes up 14% of the overall gross of the Top 100 Worldwide Tours. Four artists – U2, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, and The Rolling Stones – appear in the Top 10 of the 2018 Worldwide Tours chart also ranked in the Top 10 of 2017’s Worldwide Tours Chart.

Last year, U2 topped the chart, grossing $316m with 2,713,136 tickets sold. Sheeran came in at #8, grossing $124.1m with 1,525,882 tickets sold. 2018 Top 10 Worldwide ToursGROSS TICKETS SOLD 432.4 Ed Sheeran 4,860,482\* 345.1 Taylor Swift 2,888,892  254.1 Jay-Z / Beyoncé 2,169,050  169.2 Pink 1,285,411  167.6 Bruno Mars 1,290,438\*  166.0 Eagles 964,245  151.0 Justin Timberlake 1,193,365 131.3 Roger Waters 1,448,771  126.2 U2 927,034\*  116.6 The Rolling Stones 750,914\* 2018 Top 10 North American ToursGROSS TICKETS SOLD  277.3 Taylor Swift 1,268,706  166.4 Jay-Z / Beyoncé 1,298,038 166.0 Eagles 964,245 114.4 Kenny Chesney 1,297,731  110.0 Justin Timberlake 791,780  105.0 Ed Sheeran 1,136,497  97.8 Journey / Def Leppard 1,000,272 95.3 Pink 688,558 88.3 Springsteen On Broadway 173,461  79.0 Drake 678,410Top 3 PromotersLive Nation 49.6 million tickets AEG Presents 11.6 million ticketsMessina Touring Group 5.3 million ticketsTop StadiumsForo Sol Mexico City, Mexico 887,802MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ 521,215Gillette Stadium Foxboro, MA 454,383Top AmphitheatersRuoff Home Mortgage Music Center Noblesville, IN 588,023BB&T Pavilion Camden, NJ 505,287The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, TX 467,620Top TheatersAuditorio Nacional Mexico City, Mexico 1,325,493 Radio City Music Hall New York, NY 1,004,255 Fox Theatre Atlanta, GA 704,828Top ClubsThe Anthem Washington, D.C. 391,835House Of Blues Boston Boston, MA 325,7319:30 Club Washington, D.C. 240,156