Posted November 28, 200618 yr Stones Roll By U2 For Top Grossing Tour Ever November 24, 2006, 12:50 PM ET Ray Waddell, Nashville Though they'll surely live to fight another day, U2's brief stint holding the title of top-grossing tour ever is over. That distinction now returns to the Rolling Stones, whose A Bigger Bang tour is now the top-grossing tour in history. From March 28, 2005, to March 2, 2006, U2's Vertigo tour rang up grosses of more than $333 million. That put U2 ahead of the Stones' $320 million Voodoo Lounge tour of 1994-95, and the band's 10 stadium makeup shows this month will take the total to 121 shows and a gross of about $377 million. But the Stones' numbers from their global A Bigger Bang tour shatter that mark. Since the fall of 2005, the band has grossed a staggering $437 million and drawn 3.5 million people to 110 shows. In addition, an estimated crowd of 2 million saw the band perform at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro back in February. The tour, like every Stones trek since 1989, is produced by Michael Cohl under the Concert Productions International banner, with Live Nation. Though no one's commenting officially, talk is that the Stones will stretch the tour into 2007, meaning a final mark of more than $500 million is easily in range.
November 28, 200618 yr Author Well the Stones last album sold barely arnything worldwide, U2's last sold over 9 million so U2 overall are still after 30 years the biggest bands on the planet :D
December 13, 200618 yr Well the Stones last album sold barely arnything worldwide, U2's last sold over 9 million so U2 overall are still after 30 years the biggest bands on the planet :D Right :cool:
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