Dua Lipa wrapped the European leg of the Radical Optimism Tour on June 27 at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. Together with prior reveals in Asia (November-December 2024) and Oceania (March-April), it has grossed $112.3 million and bought 960,000 tickets over its first 44 reveals, in line with figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That makes it the largest tour of Lipa’s profession to this point, earlier than she brings the tour to the Americas this fall.
The Radical Optimism Tour kicked off on Nov. 5, 2024, with 11 reveals throughout Asia, marking Lipa’s first reveals there since a 2018 leg of The Self-Titled Tour. Then, she performed Singapore’s 5,000-capacity Star Theater; on her present tour, she bought greater than 18,800 tickets throughout two nights at Indoor Stadium. In Tokyo, the level-up is much more stark, going from the two,700-cap Zepp Tokyo to 38,300 tickets at Saitama Tremendous Area.
Altogether, the Asia reveals grossed $21 million and bought 166,000 tickets. Then, Lipa traveled to Australia and New Zealand, the place she introduced in $17.2 million from 139,000 tickets over 10 reveals (March 17-April 4). That’s up 45% from the Oceania leg of 2022’s Future Nostalgia Tour.
Subsequent was Europe: double the reveals than both of the earlier legs, and greater than triple the gross. Over 23 reveals, Lipa grossed $74.1 million and bought 656,000 tickets. That’s 10 fewer reveals than her final run by Europe, however up 188% in earnings. Three years deeper into her profession, Lipa basically doubled her common ticket worth ($56.18 vs. $112.98) and per-show attendance (14,300 vs. 28,500) in Europe.
On the Future Nostalgia Tour, Lipa hit 28 European arenas, 5 of which received a second present. This time, she performed a number of nights in seven arenas and leveled as much as 5 stadiums. Her two nights at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 20-21) grossed $19.1 million from 151,000 tickets. Not solely is it the spotlight of the tour to this point, however additionally it is essentially the most attended and highest grossing engagement of Lipa’s profession to this point.
Touring has turn out to be increasingly global since Lipa’s final tour, however the USA stays essentially the most profitable market on this planet. It speaks to her international prowess then, that she has outearned 2022’s world tour, which included 31 reveals within the U.S. and Canada, months earlier than stepping foot stateside.
From Sept. 1 to Oct. 16, Lipa will play 22 reveals within the U.S., plus two in Toronto. Then, she’s off to Latin America for 11 reveals earlier than ending on Dec. 5 at Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio GNP Seguros. By the point curtains shut, the Radical Optimism Tour will likely be headed for $165 million to $175 million. Trending towards $200 million is probably going given the rise in American ticket costs since her final trek, although it’s unlikely she’d cross that threshold.
Courting again to Lipa’s first reported present on the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix (March 14, 2017), she has grossed $220.1 million and bought 2.4 million tickets.