Beyonce's Formation World Tour Reaches $210 Million in Ticket Sales (So Far)
8/11/2016 by Bob Allen
Beyonce’s Formation World Tour has now grossed $210 million (and counting). The first two legs of the tour -- through North America in the spring followed by a five-week trek in Europe that wrapped Aug. 3 -- generated 1.8 million tickets sold at 40 performances.
After a brief hiatus, the Formation World Tour will resume on Sept. 7 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.: the first stop on a final nine-city jaunt through North American markets that will wrap in Nashville on Oct. 2.
The Formation World Tour launched on April 27 in Miami, and concluded its first North American leg on June 14 after playing 23 shows on the continent. The tour headed to Europe and kicked off with a June 28 stadium show in Sunderland, England. The European segment included 17 concerts at 16 venues, with box office sales reaching $86.9 million.
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Reported this week by tour promoter Live Nation, revenue from the European leg earns Beyoncé the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s weekly tally of Hot Tours (see list below).
Each of the venues on the European schedule hosted the tour for a single night except for London’s Wembley Stadium that drew 142,500 fans on July 2 and 3. The two-night stint earned $15.3 million, the sixth-highest gross of the year based on reported Boxscores from touring artists of all genres.
The best-attended show so far on the Formation World Tour occurred at her July 21 show at the Stade de France in Paris. A total of 75,106 tickets were sold to the concert. (That beats the 55,736 tickets sold to her May 14 Rose Bowl show in Pasadena, Calif. -- which had been the tour’s best-attended show.)
| HOT TOURS - AUGUST 9, 2016 | |
| Ranked by Gross. Compiled from Boxscores reported Aug. 2-8 | |
| Rank | ACT |
| Total Gross | |
| Show Date Range | |
| Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts) | |
| Total Attendance (Capacity) | |
| 1 | BEYONCÉ |
| $86,947,147 | |
| June 28-Aug. 3 | |
| Stadium of Light, Sunderland, U.K. (1/1) | |
| Principality Stadium, Cardiff, U.K. (1/1) | |
| Wembley Stadium, London (2/2) | |
| Old Trafford, Manchester, U.K. (1/1) | |
| Hampden Park, Glasgow, U.K. (1/1) | |
| Croke Park, Dublin (1/1) | |
| Esprit Arena, Düsseldorf (1/1) | |
| Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich (1/1) | |
| Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam (1/1) | |
| Stadio San Siro, Milan (1/1) | |
| Stade de France, Paris (1/1) | |
| Telia Parken, Copenhagen (1/1) | |
| Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden (1/1) | |
| Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt (1/1) | |
| King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels (1/1) | |
| Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Barcelona (1/1) | |
| 867,025 (867,025) | |
| 2 | BILLY JOEL |
| $4,031,634 | |
| July 30 | |
| Nationals Park, Washington, D.C. (1/1) | |
| 37,807 (37,807) | |
| 3 | SHAWN MENDES |
| $2,338,620 | |
| July 15-31 | |
| Mizner Park Amphitheater, Boca Raton, Fla. (1/1) | |
| St. Augustine Amphitheater, St. Augustine, Fla. (1/1) | |
| Fox Theatre, Atlanta (1/1) | |
| Comerica Theatre, Phoenix (1/1) | |
| Open Air Theatre, San Diego (1/1) | |
| SJSU Event Center Arena, San Jose, Calif. (1/1) | |
| WaMu Theater, Seattle (1/1) | |
| Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio (1/1) | |
| Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie, Texas (1/1) | |
| Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver (1/1) | |
| The Great Saltair, Magna, Utah (1/1) | |
| Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1) | |
| 1st Bank Center, Broomfield, Colo. (1/1) | |
| 60,990 (60,990) | |
| 4 | MUMFORD & SONS |
| $2,296,100 | |
| May 13-17 | |
| Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg (1/0) | |
| ISS Dome, Düsseldorf (1/0) | |
| Olympiahalle, Munich (1/0) | |
| 34,527 (35,045) | |
| 5 | MAROON 5 |
| $1,687,568 | |
| July 15 | |
| Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan (1/1) | |
| 14,481 (14,481) | |
| 6 | KISS |
| $1,438,799 | |
| Aug. 1-5 | |
| Verizon Wireless Center, Mankato, Minn. (1/0) | |
| AMSOIL Arena, Duluth, Minn. (1/0) | |
| La Crosse Center, La Crosse, Wis. (1/0) | |
| i wireless center, Moline, Ill. (1/0) | |
| 21,760 (27,944) | |
| 7 | BRAD PAISLEY |
| $1,183,737 | |
| July 30-31 | |
| Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, Ind. (1/0) | |
| DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mich. (1/1) | |
| 32,271 (36,315) | |
| 8 | DOLLY PARTON |
| $853,310 | |
| July 19-Aug. 6 | |
| U.S. Cellular Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1/0) | |
| Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1/0) | |
| 9,741 (11,112) | |
| 9 | PJ HARVEY |
| $422,702 | |
| June 20 | |
| Zitadelle, Berlin (1/0) | |
| 6,814 (9,500) | |
| 10 | TWENTY ONE PILOTS |
| $324,178 | |
| Aug. 5 | |
| Amphitheater at the Wharf, Orange Beach, Ala. (1/1) | |
| 9,573 (9,573) | |