Dead & Company Surpass $200 Million, 2 Million Tickets Sold With Biggest Tour Yet

Four years after coming together, the ensemble known as Dead & Company are going stronger than ever, atop the Hot Tours tally (see below) dated July 20, 2019. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the group added $29.8 million to its 2019 tour total with new reports for 12 shows. In all, the summer trek grossed $40.9 million and sold 486,917 tickets.

Not only does the tour top this week’s recap, Dead & Company also reign over the Current Boxscore chart with a double-header home run at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The June 14-15 engagement grossed $7.1 million and sold 72,851 tickets.

Those earnings improve upon the band’s last performance at the same venue, when they grossed $6.4 million on June 30-July 1, 2017 (that engagement was previously Dead & Company’s biggest earner ever — in between tours, the group notched the biggest win of their career with a four-day destination event in Mexico, which tops the 2019 mid-year Top Boxscores chart).

The second biggest engagement of the tour, a July 5-6 stint at Boulder’s Folsom Field, grossed $6.5 million, up more than 20% from its engagement at the same venue last summer. 

The tour featured a fair mix of amphitheaters and stadiums, ranging in capacity from the 13,127 of Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas to 43,779 of the Boston-area Gillette Stadium. In total, the band played six stadium shows and 13 dates in amphitheaters.

The final $40 million-plus total makes it Dead & Company’s biggest tour yet, up 16% over 2018’s $35.2 million gross. Having toured consistently since its 2015 debut, the band has grossed $205.5 million and sold 2.18 million tickets across 120 reported shows.

See below for the full Hot Tours recap, featuring Ariana Grande, Hugh Jackman, and the summer co-headline package of Train and the Goo Goo Dolls.

	HOT TOURS – JULY 20, 2019
	Ranked by Gross, Compiled from Boxscores reported July 9 – 15
	ACT
	Total Gross
	Show Date Range
	Venue, City (Shows/Sellouts)
	Total Attendance (Capacity)
RANK
1	Dead & Company
	$29,833,761
	June 14 – July 6
	Wrigley Field, Chicago (0/2)
	Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (0/1)
	BB&T Pavilion, Camden, N.J. (0/1)
	Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass. (0/1)
	Citi Field, Flushing, N.Y (1/1)
	Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va. (0/1)
	PNC Pavilion, Charlotte, N.C. (1/1)
	Cellaris Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, Ga. (1/1)
	Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas, Texas (0/1)
	Folsom Field, Boulder, Colo. (0/2)
	333,499 (385,769)
2	Shawn Mendes
	$13,069,262
	June 12 – July 6
	Moda Center, Portland, Ore. (1/1)
	Rogers Arena, Vancouver, British Columbia (1/1)
	Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta (1/1)
	SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (1/1)
	Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1/1)
	Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. (1/1)
	Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa (1/1)
	Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1/1)
	Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wis. (1/1)
	Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill. (2/2)
	Enterprise Center, St. Louis, Mo. (1/1)
	Pepsi Center, Denver, Colo. (1/1)
	Staples Center, Los Angeles (2/2)
	186,605 (186,605)
3	Ariana Grande
	$11,410,644
	June 14 – 26
	Barclays Center, Brooklyn (2/2)
	Madison Square Garden, New York (2/2)
	Scotiabank Arena, Toronto (1/1)
	72,621 (72,621)
4	Hugh Jackman
	$6,767,153
	June 24 – July 1
	Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Mich. (0/1)
	Madison Square Garden, New York (0/3)
	Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C. (1/1)
	59,913 (62,067)
5	Billy Joel
	$6,575,093
	June 22
	Wembley Stadium, London (1/1)
	57,804 (57,804)
6	Anderson .Paak
	$6,424,841
	May 17 – June 29
	Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville (0/1)
	Jacobs Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio (0/1)
	The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. (1/1)
	Maine Savings Pavilion at Rock Row, Westbrook, Mass. (1/1)
	MECU Pavilion, Baltimore, Md. (0/1)
	RBC Echo Beach, Toronto (1/1)
	Meadow Brook Amphitheatre, Rochester, Mich. (1/1)
	Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Chicago, Ill. (1/1)
	Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, N.C. (1/1)
	Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta, Ga. (1/1)
	Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square, New Orleans, La. (1/1)
	Revention Music Center, Houston, Texas (1/1)
	The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, Texas (1/1)
	Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colo. (1/1)
	The Pearl at The Palms, Las Vegas (0/1)
	PNE Amphitheatre, Vancouver, British Columbia (0/1)
	WaMu Theater, Seattle, Wash. (1/1)
	McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, Ore. (1/1)
	Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, Calif. (1/1)
	Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, Calif. (1/1)
	The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (1/1)
	124,100 (124,605)
7	Paul McCartney
	$4,915,772
	June 1 – 6
	Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky. (1/1)
	Kohl Center, Madison, Wis. (1/1)
	31,863 (31,863)
8	Westlife
	$4,907,313
	May 31 – June 15
	Utilita Arena, Newcastle, England (0/2)
	O2 Arena, London (0/3)
	61,400 (66,045)
9	Train & Goo Goo Dolls
	$4,799,807
	June 12 – 29
	Ak-Chin Pavilion, Phoenix, Ariz. (0/1)
	North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, Calif. (0/1)
	Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, Calif. (0/1)
	FivePoint Amphitheater, Irvine, Calif. (0/1)
	USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, Utah (0/1)
	Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, Colo. (0/1)
	Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, Mo. (0/1)
	BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove, Southaven, Miss. (0/1)
	Harrah’s Stir Concert Cove, Council Bluffs, Iowa (1/1)
	Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, Rogers, Ark. (1/1)
	Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Texas (0/1)
	Dos Equis Pavilion, Dallas (0/1)
	129,809 (190,120)
10	Backstreet Boys
	$2,683,200
	June 17 – 18
	O2 Arena, London (0/2)
	29,164 (31,600)