Pop star Ariana Grande heads up the latest tally of Hot Tours (see list below), based on final box office counts reported from her Dangerous Woman Tour, which wrapped in September.
Stretching over seven months, Grande's world tour covered five continents during its run that ended with an overall gross topping $71 million. At 75 headlining performances worldwide, the overall number of sold tickets totaled just over 875,000.
The tour launched on February 3 and began with a trek through 36 cities in the U.S. and Canada through mid-April. The European leg that followed kicked off on May 8, but was postponed two weeks later after the terrorist attack that occurred after her performance at Manchester Arena.
She returned to the road on June 4 and began the remainder of the European run with the One Love Manchester concert, held at the city’s Old Trafford Cricket Ground, benefiting the Manchester Arena’s bombing victims and families. The tour’s subsequent jaunts through markets in Latin America, Asia and Oceania continued through Sept. 21, wrapping with a finale held at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Arena.
During the Asian leg, Grande scored the tour’s highest-grossing engagement at Makuhari Messe, a Tokyo convention complex that hosted more than 52,000 fans this summer. The three-show run racked up $6.5 million in sold ticket revenue from concerts on Aug. 10, 12 and 13. A two-show stint at New York City’s Madison Square Garden claims the top gross among the trek’s North American dates. The Manhattan venue logged a gross of $2.9 million from 26,635 sold seats at sellouts on Feb. 23 and 24.
Sales from the Dangerous Woman Tour jumped by about 70 percent compared to Grande’s previous outing, 2015’s Honeymoon Tour, which logged sales in the $40 million range during an eight-month run. Attendance also rose on this year’s trek, with about 70,000 more tickets sold than two years ago. Staged primarily in arenas, both tours were worldwide in scope and offered right at 80 performances.
| HOT TOURS - Nov. 21, 2017 | |
| Ranked by Gross. Compiled from Boxscores reported Nov. 7-20 | |
| Rank | ACT |
| Total Gross | |
| Show Date Range | |
| Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts) | |
| Total Attendance (Capacity) | |
| 1 | ARIANA GRANDE |
| $30,382,777 | |
| May 8-Sept. 21 | |
| Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden (1/1) | |
| Telenor Arena, Oslo (1/0) | |
| Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning, Denmark (1/0) | |
| Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam (2/0) | |
| Genting Arena, Birmingham, England (1/0) | |
| 3Arena, Dublin (1/0) | |
| AccorHotels Arena, Paris (1/0) | |
| Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France (1/0) | |
| MEO Arena, Lisbon (1/0) | |
| Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona (1/0) | |
| Palalottomatica, Rome (1/0) | |
| Pala Alpitour, Turin, Italy (1/0) | |
| Movistar Arena, Santiago (1/0) | |
| DirecTV Arena, Buenos Aires (1/0) | |
| Parque Viva, Alajuela, Costa Rica (1/1) | |
| Makuhari Messe, Tokyo (3/0) | |
| Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul (1/0) | |
| Impact Arena, Bangkok (1/0) | |
| SM Mall of Asia Arena, Manila (1/0) | |
| LeSports Center, Beijing (1/0) | |
| Mercedes-Benz Arena, Shanghai (1/1) | |
| Guangzhou (China) International Sports Arena (1/0) | |
| Spark Arena, Auckland, New Zealand (1/0) | |
| Taipei (Taiwan) Arena (1/0) | |
| AsiaWorld-Arena, Hong Kong (1/0) | |
| 338,183 (366,676) | |
| 2 | BRUNO MARS |
| $26,102,310 | |
| Oct. 12-Nov. 11 | |
| PNC Arena, Raleigh, N.C. (1/1) | |
| Amway Center, Orlando (1/1) | |
| BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla. (1/1) | |
| American Airlines Arena, Miami (1/1) | |
| Amalie Arena, Tampa (1/1) | |
| Smoothie King Center, New Orleans (1/1) | |
| Verizon Arena, North Little Rock, Ark. (1/1) | |
| AT&T Center, San Antonio (1/1) | |
| Oracle Arena, Oakland (1/1) | |
| Talking Stick Resort Arena, Phoenix (1/1) | |
| The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (4/4) | |
| 214,417 (214,417) | |
| 3 | ED SHEERAN |
| $23,358,077 | |
| Sept. 5-Oct. 7 | |
| North Charleston (S.C.) Coliseum (1/1) | |
| KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. (1/1) | |
| Bankers Live Fieldhouse, Indianapolis (1/1) | |
| Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland (1/0) | |
| CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Neb. (1/1) | |
| Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill. (2/2) | |
| Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C. (2/2) | |
| TD Garden, Boston (2/2) | |
| PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh (1/1) | |
| Little Caesars Arena, Detroit (1/1) | |
| Barclays Centere, Brooklyn, N.Y. (3/3) | |
| Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (2/2) | |
| Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (2/2) | |
| 268,971 (268,971) | |
| 4 | STING |
| $17,934,667 | |
| Aug. 30-Oct. 17 | |
| Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (1/0) | |
| Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, N.Y. (1/0) | |
| Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston (1/0) | |
| Borgata Casino, Atlantic City (1/0) | |
| City Square, Rankwell, Austria (1/1) | |
| Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna (1/1) | |
| Arena Armeec, Sofia, Bulgaria (1/1) | |
| Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia (1/1) | |
| Olympiahalle, Munich (1/1) | |
| SAP Arena, Mannheim, Germany (1/1) | |
| Royal Arena, Copenhagen (1/1) | |
| Oslo Spektrum, Oslo (1/1) | |
| DNB Arena, Stavanger, Norway (1/1) | |
| Hartwall Areena, Helsinki (1/1) | |
| Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia (1/1) | |
| Ice Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia (1/1) | |
| Olimpiyskiy, Moscow (1/1) | |
| Palace of Sports, Kiev, Ukraine (1/1) | |
| Minsk-Arena, Minsk Belarus (1/1) | |
| Zalgiris Arena, Kaunas, Lithuania (1/1) | |
| Tauron Arena, Krakow, Poland (1/1) | |
| Papp Laszlo Sportarena, Budapest (1/1) | |
| Boris Trajkovski Sports Center, Skopje, Macedonia (1/1) | |
| Polyvalent Hall, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1/0) | |
| 223,854 (235,728) | |
| 5 | KENDRICK LAMAR |
| $13,286,106 | |
| July 12-29 | |
| Gila River Arena, Glendale, Ariz. 1/0) | |
| Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia (1/0) | |
| Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. (2/2) | |
| Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. (1/0) | |
| TD Garden, Boston (1/0) | |
| Air Canada Centre, Toronto (2/2) | |
| Palace of Auburn Hills (Mich.) (1/0) | |
| Pepsi Center, Denver (1/0) | |
| 133,073 (134,097) | |
| 6 | CHRIS STAPLETON |
| $11,153,144 | |
| July 16-Nov. 3 | |
| Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, N.Y. (1/0) | |
| PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J. (1/0) | |
| KeyBank Pavilion, Burgettstown, Pa. (1/0) | |
| BB&T Pavilion, Camden, N.J. (1/0) | |
| TaxSlayer Center, Moline, Ill. (1/0) | |
| Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa (1/0) | |
| Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1) | |
| Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (2/2) | |
| Raising Cane's River City Arena, Baton Rouge, La. (1/1) | |
| AT&T Center, San Antonio (1/0) | |
| CenturyLink Center, Bossier City, La. (1/1) | |
| Austin360 Amphitheater, Austin, Texas (1/1) | |
| Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Texas (1/1) | |
| Starplex Pavilion, Dallas (1/1) | |
| Charleston (W. Va.) Civic Center (1/1) | |
| Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (1/1) | |
| 210,595 (246,496) | |
| 7 | JAMES TAYLOR |
| $10,289,015 | |
| July 14-Aug. 11 | |
| Nationals Park, Washington, D.C. (1/0) | |
| Wrigley Field, Chicago (1/0) | |
| The Star, Frisco, Texas (1/0) | |
| DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mich. (1/0) | |
| Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1/0) | |
| Fenway Park, Boston (1/0) | |
| 124,659 (161,975) | |
| 8 | LADY GAGA |
| $10,200,744 | |
| Nov. 3-15 | |
| Bell Centre, Montreal (1/1) | |
| Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis (1/1) | |
| Little Caesars Arena, Detroit (1/1) | |
| Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn. (2/2) | |
| KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. (1/1) | |
| Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo. (1/1) | |
| 97,379 (97,379) | |
| 9 | NEIL DIAMOND |
| $9,220,500 | |
| Sept. 13-Oct. 19 | |
| Hallenstadion, Zurich (1/0) | |
| Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg (1/0) | |
| Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium (1/0) | |
| Manchester (England) Arena (1/0) | |
| SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (1/0) | |
| O2 Arena, London (2/0) | |
| 81,527 (94,109) | |
| 10 | FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE |
| $8,999,913 | |
| Sept. 14-Oct. 21 | |
| Toyota Amphitheatre, Wheatland, Calif. (1/0) | |
| Concord (Calif.) Pavilion (1/0) | |
| Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, Calif. (1/0) | |
| Toyota Center, Kennewick, Wash. (1/1) | |
| Adams Center, Missoula, Mont. (1/1) | |
| Brick Breedan Fieldhouse, Bozeman, Mont. (1/0) | |
| USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, Utah (1/1) | |
| Pepsi Center, Denver (1/0) | |
| Isleta Amphitheater, Albuquerque (1/0) | |
| Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville (1/0) | |
| MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa (1/1) | |
| Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Fla. (1/1) | |
| Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, Ala. (1/0) | |
| Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, Ga. (2/2) | |
| 180,060 (194,441) | |