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The Rolling Stones Have Highest Grossing Tour For 2015 (So Far)

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on July 26, 2015

in Live,News,Noise Pro

Pollstar has released their mid-year touring report and the Rolling Stones are leading all others.

The Stones just edged out Garth Brooks for the top of the list with total grosses of $80.7 million to Brooks’ $79.9 million. The Stones played ten sold out shows during the qualifying dates while Brooks played fourteen, thirteen of which were sellouts.

Fleetwood Mac, Kenny Chesney and U2 fill out the top five for a veteran artist sweep.

Overall, exactly fifty of the top 100 are by veteran artists who have been touring for twenty years or more.

The top ten and all veteran artists on the rest of the list:
01. Rolling Stones
02. Garth Brooks
03. Fleetwood Mac
04. Kenny Chesney
05. U2
06. Maroon 5
07. Neil Diamond
08. Taylor Swift
09. Elton John
10. Bette Midler

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