By The Numbers: The Beach Boys And Four Decades On The Road

With the June 11 passing of Brian Wilson, co-founder of The Beach Boys, we honor the memory of the legendary singer-songwriter and the other members and former members of the California rock band with a glance at boxoffice highlights during their storied career.

As with many music groups that have seen their impact on popular American music stretch over multiple decades, The Beach Boys’ peak years in the 1960s and the era of their greatest hits was already part of history by the time Pollstar began publishing in the early 1980s.

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Visionary Leader And Summer’s Poet Laureate, Dies At 82

Yet, live performances by The Beach Boys with co-founder and sole surviving original member Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, a member since the 1970s, continue to this day. Through multiple decades and various incarnations of the group, with members past and present, the band has maintained a boxoffice presence on the Pollstar charts since 1981.

The first concert to appear in the archives occurred on June 27 of that year when the band performed for a crowd of 7,868 at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. Most recently, The Beach Boys last appeared on the charts with an April 2 performance in Canada at London, Ontario’s Canada Life Place.

Over the years, a total of 1,454 shows have been reported with The Beach Boys as solo headliner or co-headliner. Of those shows, 486 of them occurred prior to 2000. The number of tickets sold at those early concerts was 3,532,255 with an overall gross of $61,819,279.

From The Archives: Brian Wilson Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of ‘Pet Sounds’ With World

Then looking at ticket sales results from 2000 through the present, reported grosses are $130,887,052 from 2,404,879 tickets sold at 968 shows. Note that these grosses reflect the numbers that appeared on the original reports of the shows when they occurred, so they do not account for inflation and what ticket sales earnings from previous years would be valued at today.

In 2025, the group is still actively touring with a full slate of concerts booked since early this year, but 2024’s “Endless Summer Gold” trek is the most recent tour to appear with multiple shows on the charts. Last year’s tour featured primarily theater dates as well as shows at amphitheaters and other outdoor venues. With a total of 87 performances reported, they grossed $15.4 million from 239,838 sold tickets. That’s an average of $176,914 per show and a ticket average of 2,757.

The archives include a handful of co-headlining tours stretching back as far as 1989 when The Beach Boys hit the road with Chicago. From 24 shows together on record, they performed for 298,072 fans and grossed $6.5 million, about $17 million in 2025 dollars. Both bands were out again together in 1997 with 25 shows in the archives. Their ticket count was 207,885 with a $4.5 million gross, now valued at about twice that amount.

In 2000, The Four Tops shared the bill for a string of shed dates during the summer including a July performance at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Walnut Creek Amphitheater. With 15,015 fans in attendance, it was the best attended show among that group of dates. Then in 2105, America shared the spotlight on several shows, while The Temptations also co-headlined a slew of August dates the same year.Overall, the boxoffice figures recorded for The Beach Boys during the Pollstar Era show worldwide grosses totaling $192.7 million. During that four-decade-plus span, more than 5.9 million tickets were sold