Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was the year’s top-grossing tour, that from Billboard Boxscore.
Billboard tracked shows between November 1st, 2019 and October 31st, 2020, Sir Elton sold close to 800,000 tickets for 47 shows. That earned him over $114-million.
Obviously, without the pandemic, those numbers would be much higher.
Since starting the tour back in 2018, Elton has earned $358.6 million and sold 2.63 million tickets in 178 shows. Over the duration of his career, Billboard claims he has earned $1.398 billion and sold 17.2 million tickets. That makes him the second-highest grossing solo artist just after Bruce Springsteen.
In order, here’s the rest of the top 10: Celine Dion at two, U2 (three), Trans-Siberian Orchestra (four), Post Malone (five), Queen + Adam Lambert (six), Jonas Brothers (seven), Tool (eight), Madonna (nine) and Dead & Company (10).
[courtesy of Classic Hits Today]