This Week’s Top Tours: Sabrina Carpenter Impacts Charts With European Boxoffice Success

Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet Tour” helps propel her to the top of the Artist Power Index this week as the pop star moves up one position to No. 1 on the chart. She unseats Billie Eilish who has held the top ranking seven times so far in 2025, including the six most recent weeks.

Carpenter’s top APX ranking is based on shows performed during the European leg of her tour that included 20 performances at 14 arenas. All but the final two concerts fall in the eligibility timeframe for chart inclusion which gives her the sixth highest Live rank among all performers. The Airplay metric, however, is where she makes her best showing, earning the third highest score of the week.

With boxoffice results reported for three of her concerts in Europe, Carpenter also lands at No. 3 on LIVE75 with “Hot Shot” status as the artist with the highest ranked debut on the chart. She averaged 16,511 sold seats per show from two concerts at Co-op Live in Manchester, England and one performance at Hallenstadion in Zürich, Switzerland. In Manchester, she sold 17,626 tickets on March 13 and 17,692 more the following evening; then on the 27^th, she played for a sellout Swiss crowd of 14,216.

The “Short n’ Sweet Tour” began in Colombus, Ohio on Sep. 23, 2024 and continued through Nov. 18 in the U.S. and Canada. Ticket sales reported last year show that she averaged 13,789 sold seats per concert at arenas booked on the tour, with a gross average of $1.61 million.

Usher returns to the Artist Power Index after also resuming a 2024 headlining tour in Europe. He lands at No. 12 after kicking off his “Past Present Future” tour’s trek through the continent at The O2 in London on March 29. He has a total of 10 concerts booked at the arena this year.

Four more artists make their debut on APX following recent concert appearances, beginning with Nicky Jam who enters the lineup at No. 34 after playing two nights in Santiago, Chile. His first show, March 14, was at Sun Monticello with 3,800 tickets sold, and a March 16 concert at Movistar Arena drew 11,630 fans. Produced by Iguana Producciones, both concerts grossed a combined $782,691.

Carrie Underwood follows at No. 37 on the Artist Power Index after returning to Las Vegas for the final series of dates with her “Reflection” residency at The Theatre at Resorts World. She began the nine-show run on March 26 and will wrap on April 12.

Then, the final two debuts on APX are ranked in the last two positions on the chart. Los Tigres Del Norte, the San Jose, California-based norteño band, comes in at No. 49, followed by Colombian Latin pop singer Camilo at No. 50.

On LIVE75, Shakira retains her ranking at No. 1 based on four performances at two Latin American stadiums on her current world tour. She performed Feb. 26-27 at Estadio El Campín in Bogotá, Colombia and March 12-13 at Guadalupe, Mexico’s Estadio BBVA, selling a combined total of 171,098 tickets at both venues.

LIVE75’s “Noisemaker,” highlighting the tour with the greatest move up the chart compared to the previous week, belongs to comedy stars Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan. Together the pair entertained 38,291 fans at arenas in Toledo and Columbus, Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina during March. Toledo’s Huntington Center sold 8,013 tickets, and Nationwide Arena in Columbus reported 15,402 sold seats. Then, Spectrum Center in Charlotte logged an attendance of 14,876 for the comedy event.

Comedy is also represented on Global Concert Pulse where Sebastian Maniscalco has the top debut of the week, entering the chart at No. 6. His ranking is based on a gross average of $1,045,547 per show from 14 arena performances during the past three-month period. The largest individual gross among them was recorded at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York. His show on March 15 grossed $1.84 million from 16,953 sold tickets.