Not The Time For Quittin’: Zach Bryan Continues Top Touring Momentum Into 2025

2024 Top 10 Worldwide Tours
No. 8 Zach Bryan
Gross: $199,163,146.90
Average Ticket Price: $189.34
Average Tickets Sold Per Show: 21,467
Total Tickets: 1,051,893
Average Gross: $4,064,554

Headlining major music festivals, stadiums and doing doubles and triples at arenas, Zach Bryan’s ceiling has still yet to be found, although there’s only so much higher anyone can possibly go.

Landing at No. 8 on Pollstar’s Year End Top 100 Worldwide Touring artists, Bryan is clearly more than the next country headliner, having shot to the top of the business on his own terms and without the usual support role that sees many career artists rise through the ranks gradually.

His heartfelt storytelling of rural Americana brings an earnest and relatable emotion to a genre sometimes criticized for a lack of substance, which translates to core country audiences while expanding to mass appeal as popular music sees an overall trend toward country as everyone from Beyoncé to Post Malone to even Yung Gravy releasing country-specific projects or even tours.

This year’s “Quittin Time Tour,” produced by AEG Presents, grossed just shy of $200 million on 49 shows reported to Pollstar. Bryan’s average ticket price is $189, all the more impressive considering for much of the summer he was regularly breaking attendance records at arenas, headlining stadiums and music festivals at will, including Bourbon and Beyond in Louisville, which saw 60,000 fans in attendance for the Saturday that included his closing headline set.

The multi-genre festival had a decidedly Americana bent to it this year, mirroring trends in popular music in general and, perhaps, Bryan specifically, being joined by contemporaries including Whiskey Myers, Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers and more. Another Planet Entertainment recently announced a special one-off featuring Bryan and Kings of Leon at Golden Gate Park for August, billed simply as a Live Concert At Golden Gate Park, essentially making a stadium-sized special occasion for Bryan specifically.

That will follow Bryan’s April headlining set at Stagecoach, the festival he was a late addition to in 2022 as his live career was exploding.

“I was an early fan,” Goldenvoice’s Stacy Vee, who is credited with much of the growth of Stagecoach, previously told Pollstar. “It was really wonderful to work with Zach in the festival space for as long as I have and then translate that into touring business.”
This summer, an in-the-round configuration saw record-breakers at arenas including Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 25, breaking a record set by U2 at more than 18,000 fans. That followed another record-breaker, at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, with 19,000 tickets sold. Venue manager Antony Bonavita said Aramark’s food and beverage per caps for that show were $31.56, demonstrating further excitement from fans.

“It’s hard to put into words how great Zach’s “The Quittin’ Time” tour was,” said Rich Schaefer, president of global touring at AEG Presents. “From a massive onsale to high drop counts at each incredible show, this was the perfect tour.  How else can you can describe over 1.8m tickets sold at 81 shows including 16 sold out stadiums and 65 sold out arenas?  Working with Zach, his management team and his WME team was a true partnership, a giant team effort, from marketing to ticketing to production, with all working in sync to launch and manage this behemoth of a tour.  Zach is a true artist and has a connection with his fans that few others do.  That along with an incredible band, crew and production led to a great fan experience and shows that people will talk about for years to come.  It was truly an honor to be involved in this groundbreaking tour and can’t wait for whatever Zach and the team has in store for the future.”

Highlights include three nights at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, which moved a combined 49,175 tickets and grossed $8.5 million, and doubles at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas ($7.75 million) and Frost Bank Center in San Antonio ($6.57 million).

Those are clearly not isolated incidents, as dates continue through December in markets and venues Bryan already hit earlier this year, including two nights at Desert Diamond Arena, three nights at BOK Center in his native Oklahoma and two nights at Barclays Center in Brooklyn before closing out the year.

He’s seen success in stadiums, too, with US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia getting in the mix as part of “The Quittin Time Tour,” to name a few.

July 2025 sees him do three nights at MetLife Stadium, surely a feat for any artist, especially one who just played New York the previous winter.

There is room for growth, however, overseas, where he is stepping into stadium-sized settings as well, with BST Hyde Park and Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, on the books for summer 2025, both sprawling outdoor spaces with capacities into 65,000. Doesn’t sound like quittin time to us anytime soon.