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Boxoffice Insider: Gloria Trevi’s Career Box-Office Highlights
Gloria Trevi’s box-office history stretches back almost 19 years to her “Trevolución” tour, the first of nine that have occurred so far in this century. The tour, which ran from 2005 through 2006, featured 23 shows booked at arenas and theaters in North America. The opener was an arena performance, March 4, 2005, in her hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, that welcomed 6,810 fans and was the first of her concerts ever to appear in Pollstar.
It was followed by her “Una Rosa Blu” tour from February 2008 through May 2010 that began and also ended in Los Angeles. It launched at the now-demolished Universal Amphitheatre (known then as Gibson Amphitheatre) and then wrapped 27 months later at Nokia Theater (now Peacock Theater) after playing dates in the Americas and Europe.
Next was her “Gloria” tour (2011-2012) which also included a performance at Nokia Theater in May 2012, but the remainder of the shows reported were in Mexican cities. In Monterrey she appeared at both a theater and arena, playing two nights at Auditorio Banamex (now Citibanamex), Oct. 7-8, 2011, with 11,527 tickets sold. Then on Oct. 27, 2012, she performed at Arena Monterrey, drawing 11,058 attendees. At Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional, the tour was booked for a total of seven shows during the tour.
Auditorio Nacional is the venue that appears most often in Trevi’s box-office history among the buildings that have hosted multiple shows. The 9,600-seat auditorium has 25 performances on record in the archives between November 2008 and March of last year with a combined gross from all shows topping $10 million. The overall number of sold tickets at the venue totals 222,839.
Other Mexican venues with multiple shows recorded include Arena CDMX, also in Mexico City, and Arena Monterrey, both with 13 performances in the archives. Then, Auditorio Telmex near Guadalajara has had 12 concerts reported since 2009.
Trevi’s next two tours, “Agárrate” and “De Película” (2013-2015), together add 31 performances and 152,080 sold tickets to her box-office history. But the subsequent “El Amor” tour, that launched in August 2015 and ran through May 2017, included 62 reported shows with 311,882 tickets for a $14.1 million gross. It marked a 3% jump in the average number of tickets sold per show compared to the two previous tours and a 13% rise in gross.
Yet the “Versus” co-headlining trek with Alejandra Guzmán (2017-2018) saw those totals leap significantly in a back-to-back comparison. With $34.8 million in grosses from 66 reported shows, the tour’s per-show gross average of $527,272 was more than double the average from Trevi’s three previous tours combined. Likewise, the sold-ticket average on “Versus” also jumped sharply – up 62%.
The ”Diosa de la Noche” tour, which launched in May 2019, ran throughout that year and into 2020 but was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 33 performances were reported before the tour was halted. Among the top box-office results, Arena CDMX had the highest gross and attendance of $1.57 million from 66,000 tickets at three shows, while Domo Care in Monterrey also hosted three shows with 17,584 sold tickets. Then, Arena Monterrey moved 12,621 tickets in February 2020, and the top U.S. attendance was 8,771 at the Forum (now Kia Forum) in Inglewood, California, Nov. 9, 2019.
Her most recent tour, “Isla Divina” that played the Americas in 2022-2023, had 65 shows reported with a gross of $21.8 million from 338,422 sold tickets. The top-grossing engagement at Auditorio Nacional, Jan. 20-21, 2023, earned $1.3 million from 19,049 tickets at two shows. In the U.S., her top results were at Allstate Arena in Chicago with a $621,516 gross from 7,949 tickets on Sept. 10, 2022.
From 291 reported shows during the past 19 years, Trevi’s nine tours grossed over $96.1 million from 1.79 million tickets, but her “Mi Soundtrack” world tour, set to launch this month, should take her over $100 million in career grosses.