Boxoffice Insider: Pink Beautifully Traumatizes North America With $95M Opening Leg

Pink’s first “Beautiful Trauma” North American tour leg has wrapped, with more than $95 million grossed on 46 shows – and she has another 42 shows in Australia/New Zealand this year, followed by 40 North American dates in spring 2019.

The March-June tour leg sold a total of 691,953 tickets and grossed $95.63 million, good for an average of $2.51 million per market and 18,209 tickets sold. 

While a Live Nation tour, Pink is anything but conventional, which means there are quite a few co-promotes with U.K. promoter (and AEG Presents partner) Marshall Arts, as Barrie Marshall is heavily involved in Pink’s touring.

Standout reports from the nearly completely sold-out tour include two nights at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., May 18-19 ($4.7 million), and she hit Texas particularly hard with double sellouts in both Dallas and Houston. Other doubles included Madison Square Garden Arena in New York City ($5.32 million), Air Canada Centre in Toronto ($4.23 million) and United Center in Chicago ($4.25 million). 

One of the millions of Pink fans across the globe is Madison Entertainment’s Roger LeBlanc, who booked Pink to play last year’s KAABOO Del Mar festival in California.

“She’s spectacular,” LeBlanc told Pollstar. “Her team is probably one of the best I’ve ever worked with, top to bottom. She doesn’t conform to the traditional model, certainly as it relates to booking, where she has her own internal team.” That team includes tour director Bill Buntain and manager Roger Davies.

“I’ve been doing it 30 years now and there may not be a more professional and solid group of people that I’ve worked with.”

Next she hits Australia hard, where in 2013 she sold an estimated 590,010 tickets, or 2.2 percent of the country’s population. There may be space for another continent, too. 

“Europe is doing really well,” manager Davies told Pollstar previously. “We have to get there. We’re just doing America and Australia first and we’ll head to Europe probably later in the year.”