Aerosmith Surpasses $35 Million Earned & 150,000 Tickets Sold With Deuces Are Wild Vegas Residency
10/16/2019 by Eric Frankenberg
Aerosmith perform onstage during the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Aug. 20, 2018 in New York City.
With reports of six recent dates at the Park Theater in Las Vegas, Aerosmith’s Deuces Are Wild residency dominates the Current Boxscore chart at Nos. 1 and 3 and steals the No. 2 spot on the Hot Tours ranking dated Oct. 19, 2019. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the band’s run from Sept. 21 to Oct. 6 grossed $6.5 million and sold 29,805 tickets.
The six dates are reported in groups of three, separated by calendar month. The Sept. 21, 23, and 28 shows ($3.4 million; 15,132 tickets) marks Aerosmith’s first engagement atop the Boxscore chart since the April 30, 2007-dated tally with a performance at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina ($3.9 million; 71,871 tickets), and their fifth chart-topping appearance overall.
These new reports, in addition to updates from earlier in 2019, push the residency’s totals to $35.6 million in grosses and 163,820 tickets sold since opening on April 6. The enduring rock superheroes have played 25 shows at their Vegas home base, plus a smattering of shows at other MGM locations around the country (three at The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Oxon, Md., two at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino and four at MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass.). That means the residency has averaged $1.045 million per show, helping set a new seven-figure standard in Las Vegas alongside 2019 residencies by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.
Deuces Are Wild pushes Aerosmith’s reported career earnings further into the stratosphere. Including their portion of a co-headline run with KISS and one co-billed date with Post Malone earlier this year, their total gross climbs to $514.9 million from 9,208,421 tickets sold. They are the 10th rock band in the history of Billboard Boxscore to cross the half-billion threshold, joining Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Depeche Mode, Eagles, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, The Rolling Stones and U2 (Phish’s reported career total stands at $499.4 million).
See below for the full Hot Tours tally, including fellow classic rock icons Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, as well as new-school arena conquers Muse.
Ed. Note (10/22): This story has been updated with additional information from MGM.
| HOT TOURS - OCT. 19, 2019 | |
| Ranked by Gross, Compiled from Boxscores reported Oct. 8 - 14 | |
| ACT | |
| Total Gross | |
| Show Date Range | |
| Venue, City (Shows/Sellouts) | |
| Total Attendance (Capacity) | |
| RANK | |
| 1 | Iron Maiden |
| $13,008,243 | |
| Sept. 5 - 30 | |
| Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Wash. (1/1) | |
| Moda Center, Portland, Ore. (1/1) | |
| Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, Calif. (0/1) | |
| Banc of California Stadium, Los Angeles (1/1) | |
| Talking Stick Resort Arena, Phoenix, Ariz. (0/1) | |
| Isleta Amphitheater, Albuquerque, N.M. (0/1) | |
| Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, Texas (0/1) | |
| Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Texas (0/1) | |
| AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas (1/1) | |
| Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City (0/3) | |
| 183,609 (193,143) | |
| 2 | Aerosmith |
| $6,489,923 | |
| Sept. 21 - Oct. 6 | |
| Park Theater, Las Vegas (0/6) | |
| 29,805 (31,857) | |
| 3 | Maluma |
| $5,964,243 | |
| Sept. 12 - Oct. 3 | |
| WaMu Theater, Seattle, Wash. (1/1) | |
| SAP Center, San Jose, Calif. (1/1) | |
| Sames Auto Arena, Laredo, Texas (0/1) | |
| Talking Stick Resort Arena, Phoenix, Ariz. (1/1) | |
| Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas (0/1) | |
| Bert Ogden Arena, Edinburg, Texas (0/1) | |
| Toyota Center, Houston (0/1) | |
| AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas (1/1) | |
| Agganis Arena, Boston, Mass (1/1) | |
| 62,297 (69,738) | |
| 4 | John Mayer |
| $5,209,428 | |
| Oct. 1 - 7 | |
| Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden (1/1) | |
| Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway (1/1) | |
| Trondheim Spektrum, Trondheim, Norway (1/1) | |
| Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark (1/1) | |
| Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning, Denmark (1/1) | |
| 59,475 (59,475) | |
| 5 | Luis Miguel |
| $3,616,074 | |
| Sept. 12 - 16 | |
| The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nev. (2/4) | |
| 15,163 (16,314) | |
| 6 | Muse |
| $3,032,640 | |
| Sept. 14 - 15 | |
| O2 Arena, London (0/2) | |
| 30,600 (34,960) | |
| 7 | Def Leppard |
| $2,637,634 | |
| Sept. 1 - 7 | |
| Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas (0/4) | |
| 15,931 (17,274) | |
| 8 | Ariana Grande |
| $2,485,450 | |
| Sept. 17 - 28 | |
| SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (1/1) | |
| Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany (0/1) | |
| 25,608 (26,371) | |
| 9 | Banda MS |
| $2,443,917 | |
| Aug. 30 - Sept. 21 | |
| Rabobank Arena, Bakersfield, Calif. (0/1) | |
| Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto (0/1) | |
| Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas (0/1) | |
| Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C. (1/1) | |
| Amway Center, Orlando, Fla. (0/1) | |
| 25,369 (31,967) | |
| 10 | Kacey Musgraves |
| $1,697,652 | |
| Sept. 11 - 27 | |
| The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (1/1) | |
| Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion, Boston, Mass. (1/1) | |
| Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary, N.C. (1/1) | |
| U.S. Cellular Center, Asheville, N.C. (2/2) | |
| Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, Charlotte, N.C. (1/1) | |
| Volvo Car Stadium, Charleston, S.C. (1/1) | |
| The Fillmore New Orleans, New Orleans, La. (2/2) | |
| 35,753 (35,753) |