The Lumineers Hit $10 Million & Counting on III: The World Tour
The Lumineers hit career bests in Chicago and New York as their 2019-20 world tour crosses $10 million.
The Lumineers storm the Feb. 29-dated Hot Tours recap (see below) at No. 2 with reports for eight North American shows on III: The World Tour. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the recent shows earned $5.6 million and sold 93,882 tickets.
The band came stateside after 17 European shows in November and are posting career-best numbers. Their double-headers at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. (Feb. 21-22) and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (Feb. 13-14) highlight the domestic run at Nos. 11 and 14 on the Current Boxscore chart, respectively.
The Chicago-area shows ($1.7 million gross) and the Brooklyn gigs ($1.6 million), making them the second and third-highest earning engagements of the band’s career. Their biggest figures were from a three-show run at the Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Englewood, Colo. in 2016. When averaged out for a per-night gross, the band’s 2020 shows are their biggest ever.
So far, the band’s 14 U.S. shows in 2020 have totaled $8.9 million and 150,943 tickets sold. Adding in a sprinkling of international reports from the 2019 leg, The Lumineers have grossed $10.2 and sold nearly 180,000 tickets on III: The World Tour. The trek lasts throughout much of 2020, with 43 North American dates and a handful of international shows still on the books.
III: The World Tour is an apt name, as it follows The Lumineers World Tour (2012-13) and Cleopatra World Tour (2016-17) as the band’s third world tour (it also shares a name with the band’s 2019 album III). But despite a smaller presence on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, their momentum on the road continues to grow. The average per-night gross has grown from $141,000 in 2012-13 tour to $356,000 in 2016-17, and now to $568,000. Similarly, the group is selling more tickets each show, leaping from 4,033 on their first tour to 10,782 in 2020. With 50 shows left to report in 2020, III: The World Tour is headed toward a $35-million-plus finish.
See below for the full Hot Tours tally, featuring Celine Dion, tobyMac, and Banda MS de Sergio Lizarraga.
HOT TOURS – FEB. 29, 2020 Ranked by Gross, Compiled from Boxscores reported Feb. 18 – 24
ACT
Total Gross
Show Date Range
Venue, City (Shows/Sellouts)
Total Attendance (Capacity)
RANK
1 Celine Dion
$14,465,431
Jan. 30 – Feb. 11
AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas (1/1)
Toyota Center, Houston, Texas (1/1)
American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas (1/1)
BOK Center, Tulsa, Okla. (1/1)
Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, La. (1/1)
FedExForum, Memphis, Tenn. (1/1)
PNC Arena, Raleigh, N.C. (1/1)
85,573 (85,573)
2 The Lumineers
$5,563,518
Feb. 11 – 22
Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1/1)
Barclays Center, Brooklyn (2/2)
John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville, Va. (1/1)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Ind. (1/1)
Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (1/1)
Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Ill. (2/2)
93,882 (93,882)
3 Billy Joel
$4,776,597
Feb. 7 – 20
Amalie Arena, Tampa, Fla. (1/1)
Madison Square Garden, New York (1/1)
36,607 (36,607)
4 KoRn & Breaking Benjamin
$4,108,874
Jan. 23 – Feb. 12
PPL Center, Allentown, Pa. (0/1)
SNHU Arena, Manchester, N.H. (0/1)
Centre Videotron, Quebec City, Quebec (1/1)
Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. (0/1)
Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio (0/1)
Ford Center, Evansville, Ind. (0/1)
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Ind. (0/1)
BMO Harris Bank Center, Rockford, Ill. (0/1)
Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. (0/1)
Resch Center, Green Bay, Wis. (0/1)
Simmons Bank Arena, North Little Rock, Ark. (0/1)
69,561 (91,849)
5 Tool
$3,778,496
Jan. 15 – Feb. 18
Save Mart Center, Fresno, Calif. (0/1)
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney (1/2)
37,638 (41,127)
6 Banda MS de Sergio Lizarraga
$3,166,581
Feb. 14 – 15
Staples Center, Los Angeles (2/2)
7 Kelly Family
$2,199,698
Jan. 17 – 31
Gerry Weber Stadion, Halle, Germany (1/1)
KonigPalast, Krefeld, Germany (0/1)
Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium (0/1)
Arena Burnberger Versicherung, Nurnberg, Germany (1/1)
Sachsenarena, Risea, Germany (1/1)
Arena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (1/1)
EWE Arena, Oldenburg, Germany (1/1)
39,627 (44,515)
8 Brantley Gilbert
$2,017,365
Jan. 31 – Feb. 15
BB&T Arena, Highland Heights, Ky. (0/1)
Salem Civic Center, Salem, Va. (0/1)
Resch Center, Green Bay, Wis. (0/1)
Target Center, Minneapolis, Minn. (0/1)
Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisc. (0/1)
Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C. (0/1)
KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky. (0/1)
McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, Tenn. (0/1)
40,008 (45,533)
9 tobyMac
$1,993,573
Feb. 4 – 16
Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, Okla. (1/1)
Santa Ana Star Center, Rio Rancho, N.M. (0/1)
Gila River Arena, Glendale, Ariz. (1/1)
Pechanga Arena San Diego, San Diego, Calif. (0/1)
Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, Calif. (0/1)
Save Mart Center, Fresno, Calif. (1/1)
The Forum, Inglewood, Calif. (1/1)
Reno Events Center, Reno, Nev. (0/1)
56,091 (59,319)
10 Michael Buble
$1,772,149
Feb. 4 – 5
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia (2/2)
15.146 (15,146)