Dead & Company Surpass $200 Million, 2 Million Tickets Sold With Biggest Tour Yet
Dead & Company mark the biggest tour of their career with over $40 million in grosses. The 2019 trek pushes the band's career earnings to more than $200 million from 2 million tickets sold.
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) |