5 Seconds of Summer's World Tour Finishes On Top

Plus: Dixie Chicks’ North American and European run racks up $50 million

5 Seconds of Summer leads the latest Hot Tours tally (see list, below) with the final grosses reported for the conclusion of the band's Sounds Live Feels Live World Tour. The trek was the group's second headlining tour, which covered four continents during an eight month span in 2016.

With the bulk of the tour’s box office stats reported during the past week, $26 million in ticket sales earns the Australian quartet the top slot on the Hot Tours roundup.

Add that sum to grosses reported earlier this year and the tour wrapped with an overall box office take of $39 million from 743,906 sold seats at 102 performances.

Touring in support of its second studio album, Sounds Good Feels Good, released in Oct. 2015, the band hit the road in mid-February with an 11-show sweep through Asian markets. A European leg kicked off on April 5 with 34 cities booked in 15 countries through mid-June. A North American jaunt was next and continued through late-September and, finally, a three-city stint in the group’s home country wrapped with two shows in Sydney on Oct. 4 and 5.

London’s O2 Arena produced the highest gross and attendance counts during the tour with $1.3 million in sales earned from 25,408 fans at sold out performances on April 7 and 8, but the highest gross for a single performance was $838,378 at Manila’s SM Mall of Asia Arena on March 12. Among the venues the hosted the tour for one show, Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania, drew the largest crowd with 13,887 present on July 2.

Dixie Chicks follow at No. 2 on the Hot Tours recap based on $19.4 million in box office revenue from 24 of the final 2016 concerts on the DCX MMXVI World Tour, reported during the past week by concert promoter Live Nation. Although the country trio is set to resume the tour next spring in Australia, this year’s trek through Europe and North America wrapped on Oct. 10.

Overall sales surpass the $50 million mark worldwide based on concerts reported to Billboard Boxscore in 2016. The top box office counts came from one of the tour’s multiple-show engagements in North America, a two-night stint at Toronto’s Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on June 21 and 22. With just over $2 million in sales, the shows were attended by a total of 30,477 fans. Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena logged the highest gross among the single-show dates with a $1.5 take on Aug. 17.

Based on reported Boxscores, gross and attendance averages from the current tour are about 25 percent higher than the Dixie Chicks’ last U.S. trek, the Accidents & Accusations Tour a decade ago. The new tour’s performances compare more closely to the Top of the World Tour counts from 2003. This year’s gross averages are similar to that trek, although the number of sold tickets per show was about 12 percent higher 13 years ago.