This Week’s Top Tours: AC/DC Kicks Off First North American Tour In Nine Years To Earn Top Debut On Artist Power Index

AC/DC enters the top 10 on the Artist Power Index following the North American launch of the “Power Up Tour,” a 13-city stadium run marking the band’s first trek through the U.S. and Canada since 2016. It began on April 10 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis and will span seven weeks before ending May 28 at Cleveland’s Huntington Bank Field. The sole Canadian stop on the tour will be on April 22 at Vancouver’s BC Place. 

The veteran Australian rockers launched the tour last year in support of Power Up, their most recent studio album released on Columbia Records in November 2020. The first leg of the world tour in 2024 was set in European cities with 17 stadiums and outdoor venues booked between May and August. According to sales figures reported from the opening leg of the tour, the group averaged 66,174 sold tickets per show last year with grosses averaging $9.9 million.

Among reported concerts during the 2024 tour, a sellout at Hippodrome de Longchamps in Paris drew the largest crowd for a single performance, as 82,548 tickets were sold on Aug. 13, 2024. The top gross for one show, however, was recorded at Croke Park Stadium in Dublin on Aug. 17 with a boxoffice haul of $14.3 million from 82,298 sold seats.

Following the current North American jaunt, AC/DC will head back to Europe for a second leg of dates beginning June 26 and running through Aug. 21. Included are two-show stadium engagements in three markets. Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metropolitano will host the tour July 12 & 16, and Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden has shows scheduled July 28 and Aug. 1. Later in August, the band will return to Paris to play two nights at Stade de France on the 9^th and 13^th.

Also on the Artist Power Index, Sabrina Carpenter maintains her hold at No. 1 for a third consecutive week, but LIVE75 features a new artist in the No. 1 position. Dua Lipa moves up one slot to take the top ranking based on ticket sales at three concerts during the Oceania leg of her “Radical Optimism Tour.” She is the ninth artist overall and fourth woman to score the highest ranking in 2025. It is her first appearance ever atop the chart.

Her trek through Australia and New Zealand ran just under three weeks and included multiple concerts in three cities. Along with five nights at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena and two at Auckland’s Spark Arena, she also performed three shows in Sydney at Qudos Bank Arena. Her three concerts there drew 47,675 fans for a per-show ticket average of 15,891 to earn the chart’s top ranking.

Four touring artists enter the LIVE75 chart in the top 10 including Deftones with the “Hot Shot” classification as the headliner with the highest ranked debut of the week. The band lands at No. 2 based on a three-show ticket average of 14,128 from arena concerts in Dallas, Nashville and New York City during the current North American tour, their first in three years.

Then, Tyler, The Creator ranks fourth based on sales during March at two Texas arenas on his “Chromakopia” world tour. His three-show ticket average from Austin’s Moody Center (two shows) and American Airlines Center in Dallas is 12,794, but the grosses from those concerts averaged $1.94 million, the highest of any concert headliner on the chart.

At No. 5 on LIVE75, Tyler Childers averaged 12,764 tickets from the first four arenas scheduled on his “On the Road” tour’s U.S. leg. His opening performance, held at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on April 3, was followed by sold-out shows at Simmons Bank Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Paycom Center in Oklahoma City and Target Center in Minneapolis.

Finally, J Balvin owns the No. 10 position on LIVE75 based on a ticket sales average of 8,330 from four performances in U.S. arenas. The top attendance was 11,788 recorded at a March 30 sellout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. His “Back to the Rayo” North American tour began on March 20 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta and is booked through May 17 with Portland, Oregon’s Moda Center hosting the U.S. finale.