Kelsea Ballerini’s Arena Tour Wraps With 350k+ Tickets Sold 

Kelsea Ballerini wrapped up her first-ever arena tour earlier this month with an impressive $35.2 million grossed during the three-month run and 353,807 tickets sold. The stats come from tour promoter AEG Presents.

The trek – dubbed “Kelsea Ballerini Live On Tour” – boasted 25 sold out dates and concluded with a show at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, on April 13. During the final tour stop Ballerini gifted her sparkly pink boots to a young fan, saying, “I know that you’re so tiny, but you’re growing up. And I’m thinking that one day maybe these boots will fit you,” according to a report from USA Today.  

Highlights from the tour submitted to Pollstar Boxoffice include a Jan. 31 show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena that sold 14,242 tickets and grossed $1,482,061.

Ballerini commemorated the tour with a post on Instagram April 15 saying, “first of many end of tour emo posts, but the BIGGEST thank you to the team of people that made this come to life and executed the show every night so smoothly and beautifully. it has been a labor of love from so many, and i’m beyond grateful to share this first with such talented and kind humans.”

The 31-year-old country pop star has been supporting her fifth studio album, Patterns, which was released in October on Black River Entertainment. The LP hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart and No. 4 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums. In March she released a deluxe edition of the album featuring five new songs including “Future Tripping.” 

Ballerini was featured on the cover of Pollstar in October, just days before she played a sold-out record release party at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

“It’s been a very slow, steady build for 10 years,” Ballerina told Pollstar. “And I truly didn’t skip any steps. I opened in clubs and then theaters and then amphitheaters and then arenas. And then I went back and I headlined every single one of those. This is the stuff that I’ve always been really protective of, wanting to do it at the right time, but always really eager to do it and hoping that one day I could. So it feels like a massive bucket list mark off to do this.”

Ballerini is managed by Sandbox Entertainment’s Jason Owen and Jake Basden. Her agents are Creative Artists Agency’s Marc Dennis and John Huie. 

During the tour Ballerini donated one dollar from every ticket sold to her Feel Your Way Through Foundation. The organization supports mental health charities and is dedicated to lessening “the stigma around the conversation of mental health, as well as finding a way to get people the tools they need to get help they may not have access to currently.”