14-516: The No Security Tour was a Rolling Stones concert tour to promote the concert album No Security . The tour spanned over 40 shows in North America and Europe in 1999 and grossed $ 88.5 million from over a million tickets sold. They decided to do a tour with crowds less than 20,000 after the worldwide enormous Bridges to Babylon Tour with crowds of up to 100,000. The band insisted on smaller venues, with fewer special effects, concentrating on
28-456: Is largely dominated by bands and male soloists of rock music , some of the highest-grossing tours have featured pop stars such as Swift, Ed Sheeran , Harry Styles , Beyoncé , Pink , and Madonna , as well as country singer Garth Brooks . The Rolling Stones set the all-time tour-revenue record three times (1990, 1995, and 2006); their Voodoo Lounge Tour held the record for 11 years (1995–2006), longer than any other record-holder. They are
42-646: The 1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour. The stage used in Europe was the classical Bridges to Babylon Tour stage from 1997 and 1998. In July 2018, the band released "From the Vault: No Security Tour - San Jose '99" on CD/vinyl/DVD/Blu-Ray format. This set list is representative of the performance in Washington, D.C., on 7 March 1999. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. Rolling Stones concerts Since forming in 1962,
56-569: The Cuban regime until only nine years before the concert. A live album and film, The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon , were released in 2016. In bold , the tours which, when completed, became the highest-grossing of all time . Works cited List of highest-grossing concert tours The following is a list of concert tours that have generated the most gross income . The data and rankings come largely from reports by trade publications Billboard and Pollstar . Billboard , which launched
70-976: The English rock band the Rolling Stones have performed more than two thousand concerts around the world, becoming one of the world's most popular live music attractions in the process. The Stones' first tour in their home country was in September 1963 and their first American tour began in June 1964. In their early years of performing, the band would undertake numerous short tours of the United Kingdom and North America, playing in small- and medium-size venues to audiences composed largely of screaming girls. As time moved on, their audience base expanded (in terms of both size and diversity) and they would increasingly favour larger arenas and stadiums. For many years,
84-578: The biker gang Hells Angels provided security, which resulted in a fan, Meredith Hunter , being stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels after he drew a firearm. Part of the tour and the Altamont concert were documented in Albert and David Maysles ' film Gimme Shelter . As a response to the growing popularity of bootleg recordings , the album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (UK 1; US 6) was released in 1970; it
98-706: The boxscore ranking in 1975 through its spin-off magazine Amusement Business , has featured the ranking in its own magazine since the issue date of October 3, 1981. Pollstar began reporting box office data on November 29, 1981, but it has relatively little information about pre- 2000 tours. In the early 21st century, tour revenue skyrocketed as record sales collapsed and musicians began relying on live shows for their income. The first tours to surpass $ 100 million in revenue, according to reports, were Michael Jackson 's Bad World Tour and Pink Floyd 's A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour , which both ran from 1987 to 1989. In 2023, Taylor Swift 's Eras Tour allegedly became
112-481: The first tour to collect US$ 1 billion in revenue, based on estimates by Pollstar . In October 2024, Forbes estimated the tour's gross at US$ 1.93 billion from 121 shows, though Swift has yet to officially report the gross. In 2024, Coldplay 's Music of the Spheres World Tour became the first to gross over US$ 1 billion in revenue based on officially reported boxscores. While the touring industry
126-466: The group would choose to play North America, Continental Europe , and the United Kingdom on a three-year rotating cycle. Many audio recordings exist of Rolling Stones concerts, both official and unofficial. Seventeen official concert albums (eighteen in the United States) have been released by the band, six of which were previously unreleased concert recordings released from 2011–2012, including
140-650: The highly bootlegged Brussels Affair . Several of their concerts have also been filmed and released under a variety of titles, such as The Stones in the Park which records the band's performance at Hyde Park in 1969 on the festival of the same name . The most famous and heavily documented of all the band's concerts was the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, the final show of their American Tour 1969 . For this concert,
154-766: The music and band. The tour supported their new album No Security – a live album of Bridges to Babylon Tour recordings. After rehearsing for twelve days in San Francisco, the No Security Tour began on 25 January 1999 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California. The 1999 European concerts are mistakenly considered as a European leg of the No Security Tour, but it is indeed a new leg to the Bridges to Baylon Tour, mainly consisting of cancelled shows from
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#1732772692053168-555: The only act to have the highest-grossing tour of the decade twice, in the 1990s and the 2000s. U2 has mounted the highest-grossing tour of the year at least eight times, more than any other act. This list represents the top-grossing tour of each year according to either Pollstar or Billboard Boxscore (formerly Amusement Business ). The two publications may differ on their annual figures due to different total of dates reported or different year-end tracking period. For example, Pollstar listed Madonna 's Sticky & Sweet Tour as
182-501: The top tour of 2008 with $ 281.6 million, but Billboard ranked it third on their year-end chart whose tracking period ended on November 11, 2008, thus excluding 20 shows by Madonna. In 2019, Billboard listed Ed Sheeran 's ÷ Tour as the top tour of the year ($ 223.7 million), instead of Pink 's Beautiful Trauma World Tour ($ 215.2 million) as reported by Pollstar . However, Billboard ' s figure included Sheeran's gross from November 2018 shows; therefore, Pollstar ' s figure
196-531: Was declared by critic Lester Bangs to be the best live album ever. The biggest concert the band gave was in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, part of the A Bigger Bang Tour , in 2006. The second largest was in 2016, when the band played for the first time in Cuba, during their América Latina Olé tour. An estimated 1.2 million fans, more than half of the population of Havana, saw the Rolling Stones whose music had been banned by
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