Harry Styles is officially done touring, at least for now. The singer-songwriter finished his Love On Tour trek in the city Reggio Emilia, Italy in late July after nearly two years on the road. The musician seemed thrilled with the end of the run, telling his millions of fans on Instagram that the endeavor had been “the greatest experience of my life.” The shows aren’t just a happy memory for Styles, they are also ones that made him rich and which have helped him make history.
According to Billboard, Styles’s Love On Tour now ranks as the fifth-highest-grossing tour of all time. After all the ticket sales have been counted, the trek racked up an incredible $617.3 million in grosses. Styles played 169 shows and sold more than five million tickets to fans all over the world throughout the run.
The ranking of the top-grossing tours in history (according to Billboard’s Boxscore data) now looks like this: Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour is in a distant first place, with $939 million. That goodbye tour just wrapped earlier this year as well, and it will be a little while before anyone (namely Taylor Swift) catches up.
In second place comes Ed Sheeran’s The Divide Tour with $776 million. U2’s 360 Tour lands in third with $736 million.
Right ahead of Styles is Coldplay, whose ongoing Music of the Spheres Tour just barely passes the former One Direction singer. The rock band’s current trek is ahead of the Grammy winner by less than $1 million, but since it isn’t expected to end until 2024, the distance will surely widen in the coming months.
The Love On Tour began in September 2021, and it was one of the first major ventures by a top-tier musician following the global pandemic, which caused many to hold back and wait to see how the market would respond following the danger. He began the jaunt in Las Vegas, and over the course of the next two years, he traveled to more than two dozen countries, visiting quite a few of them more than once.
Styles’s Love On Tour was organized to promote his third solo album Harry’s House. That record went right to No. 1 on charts all around the world and produced his biggest hit single yet, “As It Was.” The success of the release may explain, in part, why the tour was so huge, as the CD brought Styles to new levels of commercial and critical acclaim.
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