It goes with out saying that Bruce Springsteen is among the most iconic and profitable touring acts in historical past. So it’s noteworthy that greater than 50 years deep into his profession, his latest 2023-25 tour, which wrapped on July 3 in Italy, was his greatest ever, with out qualification.
After 129 exhibits, the Springsteen and E Avenue Band 2023-25 Tour grossed $729.7 million and offered 4.9 million tickets, in keeping with figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Any method you slice the information, it’s the most important of his profession.
At $729.7 million, that is the highest-grossing tour of Springsteen’s profession, two occasions over. His earlier finest was the Wrecking Ball World Tour, which grossed $347 million in 2012-13. The Rising Tour (2002-03), The Magic Tour (2007-08) and The River Tour (2016-17) every grossed greater than $200 million.
Maybe it’s not stunning for an important rock icon to outgross his earlier excursions, contemplating the industry-wide surge in ticket costs, particularly post-pandemic. However whereas Springsteen’s common value is up 29% ($149.30) from The River Tour ($115.52), that improve from 2016 to 2025 is properly under the everyday uptick for different enviornment and stadium acts, legacy or modern.
Past the market-level rise in demand, Springsteen offered extra tickets than ever earlier than. The 2023-25 tour closed with 4.9 million tickets, handily outdoing the Wrecking Ball World Tour’s 3.6 million by 37%. The Rising Tour is subsequent, at 3.2 million.
The 2023-25 tour can be Springsteen’s longest tour but. With 129 exhibits over the course of practically two and a half years, he beats the Wrecking Ball World Tour’s 125, The Rising Tour’s 104 and Magic Tour’s 100.
However Springsteen’s stamina didn’t make his latest triumph inevitable. On a nightly foundation, he posted one of the best gross and gross sales of his profession, at $5.7 million (The River Tour paced $3.4 million per present) and 37,900 tickets (The Rising Tour averaged 30,300) per present. Primarily based on gross, attendance, and variety of exhibits, by way of pure quantity and every night time, these are one of the best Boxscore outcomes of Springsteen’s profession.
It’s not only a excessive mark amongst The Boss’s personal touring historical past; it’s one of many greatest of all time. With studies for the trek’s last leg in Europe, The Springsteen and E Avenue Band 2023-25 Tour is now one of many 10 highest grossing excursions in historical past. It’s solely the seventh to gross over $700 million, amongst others by Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and U2.
Springsteen and The E Avenue Band performed 4 legs of exhibits in the USA and Canada, and three in Europe. Although he’s an American icon with deep associations along with his dwelling state of New Jersey, Europe delivered the lion’s share of the tour’s total gross. The break up of exhibits was comparatively even (69 in Europe vs. 60 in North America), however the unique stadium routing within the former tipped the scales towards the combination of stadiums and arenas stateside. Finally, the three European legs mixed to $472.7 million, or 65% of the tour’s complete earnings.
That is in step with Springsteen’s earlier excursions. Over his profession, he’s grossed greater than $1 billion in every continent, however barely extra in Europe ($1.1 billion vs. $1.07 billion) regardless of far fewer reported exhibits (283 vs. 695). He’s performed stadiums there for the reason that 2008 leg of Magic Tour, whereas he’s continued to incorporate arenas in his North American routing.
Combining Springsteen’s solo excursions along with his work alongside the E Avenue Band, he has grossed practically $2.3 billion from 22.6 million tickets offered throughout 1,028 exhibits, courting again to sparse reporting from 1976’s Born to Run Tour. He’s solely the fifth artist to cross the $2 billion threshold.