Coldplay’s ‘Music Of The Spheres World Tour’ To Increase All-Time Attendance Record To Projected 13M Tickets

Coldplay, once again, is set to make history next week (Sept. 12) after playing what is slated to be the final performance of the band’s “Music of the Spheres World Tour.” Next Friday the tour will have set the largest attendance ever recorded for a single concert tour with an estimated 13 million tickets sold, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports. Now, in their final 10-show hometown engagement at Wembley Stadium in London, the British rock band’s last concert will mark the final announced concert on the tour after a three-and-a-half-year run.

All of Coldplay’s box-office results from the tour were reported to Pollstar except for the last two engagements: a two-show stint at Sewell Group Craven Park Stadium in Kingston upon Hull, England, Aug. 18-19, and the final 10 nights at Wembley, Aug. 22-Sep. 12. Although box-office results from the last two venues will not be released until the final London show is completed, estimated ticket sales from those two stadiums, along with the sales figures already reported to Pollstar since the beginning of the tour, suggest the overall number of tickets sold should land in the 13 million range.

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Since the tour’s beginning, 12.3 million sold tickets were reported from 211 performances, prior to the final 12 shows. Based on archived box-office data from the tour, Coldplay already held the all-time attendance record for over a year. They passed Ed Sheeran’s 8.9 million attendance total from his record-setting “Divide” tour (2017-2019) last summer during the tour’s 2024 European leg. And, by the end of 2024, they had sold a total of 10.3 million tickets, topping the ticket count from, not only the “Divide” tour, but also Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” that sold 10.1 million tickets during its two-year run. “Eras,” however, remains the highest-grossing tour of all time with over $2 billion in ticket revenue.

Cumulative grosses from “Music of the Spheres” reached $1.39 billion after reports were received from the most recent North American leg that ended in Miami earlier this summer on July 27. Adding estimated grosses for the shows at Craven Park and Wembley Stadium could raise the overall gross to $1.4 billion or more by the end of the final London performance. The group is also No. 2 on Pollstar‘s Q3 2025 Top 100 Worldwide Tour chart with a $254.3 million dollar gross and 2.08 million tickets sold.

The “Music of the Spheres World Tour” launched on March 18, 2022 at San José, Costa Rica’s Estadio Nacional and included a total of 211 headlining performances through July 2025, along with festival appearances at “Rock in Rio” in Brazil in 2022 and the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2024.

Of the 79 stadiums booked on the tour since it began, only Wembley Stadium has hosted Coldplay for a second engagement. The band initially played the venue in August 2022 during the tour’s first European leg from Aug. 12 through 21. A total of 464,839 tickets were sold at six sellouts that summer for a $49.2 million gross. With the final 10-show run, Wembley will have staged 16 performances, the most of any venue during the tour.

Coldplay also played one other 10-show engagement during the tour, a run of shows at Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires, Argentina from Oct. 25 through Nov. 8, also during the tour’s first year on the road. The 10 concerts drew 626,841 fans and grossed $49.7 million, marking the end of the tour’s five-city Latin American leg at the end of 2022. Altogether during that first year, the tour featured 64 shows set at venues in the Americas and Europe.

In 2023, 58 shows occurred at cities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia, while the 2024 schedule featured more Asian dates followed by runs through Europe and Oceania – a total of 53 concerts. Finally, the 2025 schedule began with a Jan. 9 performance in Abu Dhabi, the first stop on a trek through Asia followed by a final string of North American dates through July. The show count this year was 36 prior to the final U.K. events.