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Lady Gaga Smashes The Box Office, Grosses $85.7M On North American Tour
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Lady Gaga performs at the worldwide premier of Gaga: Five Foot Two
Lady Gaga ranks high on Pollstar’s Global Concert Pulse after wrapping up a box office-smashing North American tour.
With a total reported gross of $85.7 million, according to Pollstar’s box office records, the pop star is currently locked in as one of the Top 15 highest-grossing touring acts on our upcoming Year End Worldwide Top Tours Chart.
Gaga played 41 headlining shows this year, giving her an average gross of more than $2 million. She sold a total of 737,155 tickets for an average of 17,979 per show.
The first leg of the tour kicked off Aug. 1 at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena and ended with two shows Sept. 9-10 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, selling out every concert along the way. The routing continued Nov. 3 at Montreal’s Bell Centre and wrapped up Dec. 12 at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
These shows were Gaga’s most profitable nights. The concert at Wrigley Filed was the pop star’s highest grossing show, raking in more than $5 million and selling 41,847 tickets, priced from $41-$271.
The average ticket for any show on the tour was priced at $116, though fans who purchased nosebleed seats were able to get tickets for around $45-$55. The most expensive tickets often sold for around $270.
Other notable stops include Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash., Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., and T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Philips Arena, one of her only shows that didn’t completely sell out, grossed more than $1 million.
Gaga has upcoming dates booked in Europe, beginning at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona Jan. 14, and recently announced a Las Vegas residency to begin in late 2018.