Billion Dollar Touring Artists
 

Wow..very interesting. Thanks for posting the link Becky.

Let's calculate an unofficial average ticket price
 

by dividing the attendance into the gross:

10. U2
73.77

9. Bon Jovi -- based on 934 shows, $1.54B USD gross (#2 on the main list), 20M attendance:
76.79

8. Cher
77.59

7. The Rolling Stones
79.57

6. Bruce Springsteen
79.68

5. The Eagles
90.93

4. Paul McCartney
96.32

3. Roger Waters
99.96

2. Celine Dion
112.67

1. Madonna
117.62

Now we have a more realistic picture of who charges the highest average ticket prices.

Of course, what really matters is what the acts NET, not gross.

And as I said on Facebook - Having just seen the last 2 shows of his tour at Mohegan Sun, I don't begrudge Bruce a penny of his money.

Over 1100 concerts in 24 years for Celine Dion? That's pretty impressive, considering they're mostly all larger scale shows.

At that price, she must be loaded.

She's already done 240 shows of her Vegas residency and has signed up until 2019 :-o

That's sure to put some coin in her purse. Lets just hope she's not throwing it all away on the Blackjack table.

The numbers of shows for Bon Jovi and Springsteen are not correct
Springsteen has performed over 1000 shows since 1990 while Bon Jovi has performed nearly 900 shows since 1990 Maybe the no of shows are from 2000-2014

i think bj before hand tour where they partnered with aeg they had different tour promoters for each country/city, thats why the data from crush/owm tour for example isnot easily available

The 5 artists that made a BILLION $ s touring
 

Although Madonna and Bono are around Jon's age, if he keeps going, he could catch his seniors being only 52.

Jon is the youngest on the list.

She had that Elvis Vegas deal where she would perform every night.