Chart Scene: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Enter Live75 At No. 1

Bruce Springsteen debuts on LIVE75 with the best-attended and highest-grossing tour of the week, based on ticket sales at nine concert venues in Europe on his ongoing world tour with The E Street Band. He sold a total of 745,662 tickets at 13 performances, averaging a whopping 57,358 sold seats per show to score the top ranking. And the tour’s 13-show gross average of $7.2 million per concert is also the highest among the tours ranked on the chart.

Of the nine venues, four hosted the tour for two shows including Wembley Stadium in London where he moved the most tickets. Attendance for the concerts there on July 25 & 27 totaled 153,904 with a gross of $25.2 million. Then, the other three venues were Goffertpark in Nijmegen, Netherlands, where he sold 129,962 tickets for two performances, June 27 & 29, and Estadi Olimpic de Montjuic Lluis Companys in Barcelona, Spain with 115,504 sold at two concerts the previous week. Finally, in Stockholm, the tour played two nights at Strawberry Arena and drew 108,202 fans.

So far in 2024, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s world tour has sold a total of 1,384,273 tickets at 33 concerts in 26 venues. Grosses from the tour top $201.5 million from shows at North American arenas in March and April, along with the European stadium performances from May through July.

Later this month on Aug. 15, Springsteen will return to North America for the remainder of the year with concerts planned at arenas and stadiums through Nov. 22. He is also booked as the closing night headliner for the “Sea.Hear.Now” music festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Sept. 15.

Following at No. 2 on LIVE75 is Coldplay with a sold ticket average of 47,883 from three performances at one stadium in Germany during the group’s massive “Music of the Spheres” world tour. They played three concerts at Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, July 20-23, and racked up a $20.4 million gross from 143,651 sold tickets. The stadium is one of 10 booked on the tour’s final European leg that began earlier this year on June 8 and is set to continue through Sept. 2.

Coldplay’s tour, that launched on March 18, 2022, is set to wrap later this year in mid-November after the band’s final three-city trek through Australia and New Zealand in the fall. Although the Düsseldorf concerts are currently the only dates reported so far from this summer’s European leg, the per-show gross average of $6,794,484 at the venue suggests that grosses from the European run could well bring the tour’s total box-office haul to the $1 billion mark or beyond. Overall grosses through the end of the Asian leg back in January and February totaled $811 million at that point, but with 32 stadium shows planned for Europe this summer, grosses on the continent could potentially add about $217 million more to the total.

On the Artist Power Index, four concert headliners make a debut appearance led by Metro Boomin, currently co-headlining the “We Trust You” tour with Future. Six of their concert dates together earn the artist the No. 20 ranking. Also entering the chart this week are Grupo Frontera, Glass Animals and Earth, Wind & Fire.