Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Still One Of The Best In Rock

2024 Top 10 Worldwide Tours
No. 5 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Gross: $251,296,432
Average Ticket Price: $150.69
Average Tickets Sold Per Show: 37,900
Total Tickets: 1,667,607
Average Gross: $5,711,282

In what amounts to an historic two years of touring, Bruce Springsteen has re-asserted his status as the King of Rock ’n Roll (Touring), putting up the biggest box-office numbers of his career, as well as one of the most successful tours of all time, while blowing away fans and critics with energetic performances around the world.

For 2024, Springsteen and the E Street Band clocked in with over $251 million in sales worldwide, with nearly 1.7 million tickets sold to 44 shows reported to Pollstar. That’s an average gross of just under $6 million per night, with average ticket sales of nearly 38,000 in mostly Euro stadiums. Springsteen’s ticket prices are on the low side for the upper echelon of artists at $150 in American dollars.

This year’s sellouts were a continuation from 2023, where, as the third-highest grossing act in the world for the year, Springsteen sold out arenas and stadiums mostly in North America. For ’24, most of the focus was on Europe and the United Kingdom, where the reception was beyond enthusiastic. Nearly 50 years after he exploded onto the London music scene with a “Born To Run Tour” sellout at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975,

Springsteen returned for the biggest stand of his 2024 tour a July 25-26 throwdown at London’s Wembley Stadium that took in a whopping $252 million and moved 153,904 tickets. Springsteen also churned massive business in Madrid ($17 million gross/161,379 tickets sold), the Netherlands ($16.3 million/129,962), and Croke Park in Dublin ($12.6 million/78,109). Returning to America in the Fall, the top show stateside for 2024 was in the longtime stronghold of Philadelphia, where two sellouts grossed $13.7 million and moved 40,765 tickets at Citizens Bank Park.

Boss & Co.’s 2024 efforts take the two-year totals to a staggering $605,332,069 gross and over 4 million tickets sold to 113 shows reported, making it one off the highest-grossing tours of all time. The average gross over this two-year period is $5.3 million, from one of the most conservative ticket prices among all superstar artists.

That total will increase, as a spate of new UK/Euro dates begin next year with a double at Co-Op Live in Manchester, UK, on May 17 and 20. Two shows in Lille, France, along with Marseille, a double in Liverpool, Berlin, Prague, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and doubles in Milan and San Sebastian, Spain, wrap up the confirmed dates on this epic run that will so far span three years.

While no official dates have been announced as of yet, a typical world domination game plan forTeam Springsteen could see the tour traveling to Australia/New Zealand, South America, or even Southeast Asia. Clearly, the demand is there, but what’s most important about these shows—and the reason why Springsteen remains one of the most popular live acts in the history of the business—is the high quality of the performances.

“The show itself, his performance capacity, has remained so high, and the level of authenticity is so real,” Jon Laundau, in his 50th year as Springsteen’s manager, told Pollstar earlier this year. “If you want to see live, real live, what you see is what you get, that’s what he does, and the number of people who are still doing that just continues to decline.”

Landau was clear he wasn’t knocking younger performers, nor the impact of technology on live. “I see things all the time I think are fantastic,” he said, “but for us, he has a style, a point of view, and an approach that you’ve got to be there to experience it. There is no substitute. And I can tell you that the same 1,000% that he puts into that you saw the first time you saw him 50 years ago, it’s exactly what he puts into it now. It’s just who he is.

“Bruce’s goal is going out there to do a show you never forget.”