This Week’s Top Tours: Kylie Minogue Debuts On LIVE75 With ‘Tension Tour’ Launch

The first boxoffice figures reported from Kylie Minogue’s “Tension Tour” earn the Australian pop star a top 10 debut on LIVE75. The 2025 tour, booked at venues on five continents throughout the year, kicked off on Feb. 15 with 10 shows planned at five arenas in the singer’s home country. Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena hosted the final engagement during the opening leg, a three-night run that drew 34,872 fans at the beginning of March. With an average of 11,624 sold seats per show in Sydney, she scores the No. 7 ranking on the chart.

The tour supports her Tension album that debuted in 2023 and its sequel Tension II that followed in 2024. The opening leg through Australia included single performances in Perth and Adelaide, two shows in Brisbane and three concerts in both Melbourne and Sydney. A brief trek through three Asian markets follows in March before the tour heads to North America. Then European dates are scheduled from May through July prior to a stretch of Latin American concerts planned for August. A final performance in Monterrey, Mexico will complete the tour on Aug. 26.

Along with festival appearances in 2024, Minogue also previously appeared on stage with her Las Vegas residency at The Venetian from November 2023 through May of last year, preceded by an earlier festival run in 2019 and 2020. Her last stint on the road was the “Golden Tour” that played arenas and other venues in Europe and Australia in 2018-2019. On that tour, she averaged $781,141 in grosses and an 8,091-ticket total per show.

On the Artist Power Index, Christina Aguilera has the highest-ranked debut at No. 17 following two concert appearances in Brazil during February. Her first engagement was at Rio de Janeiro’s Farmasi Arena where she performed for 11,225 fans on Feb. 6, grossing $842,393. Then, she headlined the “Festival CarnaUOL” held at Allianz Parque in São Paulo on Feb. 8. Also in the lineup for the event were Sean Paul and Steve Aoki along with Brazilian singers Claudia Leitte and Ana Castela among others. Attendance at the stadium was logged at 33,713 for a gross of $1.7 million.

Both the Artist Power Index and LIVE75 feature repeat appearances at No. 1 as Billie Eilish tops the APX rankings and Luke Combs remains in the top position on LIVE75, each for a third consecutive week. Both artists earn their chart appearances based on recent concerts in Australian cities. Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour” included four-show stints in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, while Combs also played those same markets along with Auckland, New Zealand during his stadium run in January and February.

Boxoffice totals reported from Eilish’s Sydney concerts at Qudos Bank Arena, Feb. 24-28, earn the nine-time Grammy Award winner a ranking on LIVE75 based on her per-show ticket average of 19,828 at the venue. Ranked No. 2 behind Combs, she earns “Hot Shot” status as the touring headliner with the highest-ranked debut on the chart.

Along with Minogue and Eilish, country star Kelsea Ballerini also debuts in the top 10 on LIVE75 with ticket sales reported from three arenas on her “Live On Tour 2025” trek that kicked off in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Jan. 21. The first of the three reported shows, a Jan. 31 performance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, moved 14,242 tickets for a gross total of $1.5 million. In February, she performed on the 10^th at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for a sellout crowd of 13,287 with $1.2 million earned at the boxoffice. Then, her sold-out show at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut welcomed 6,858 fans on Feb. 14 and grossed $769,289.