Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran & Stray Kids Top Touring Charts; Billie Eilish Debuts on APX

Billie Eilish is back on the Artist Power Index for the first time in six weeks after kicking off the last stretch of U.S. dates on her “Hit Me Hard and Soft” world tour, set to wrap in Northern California in late November. The final leg of the tour began with a three-night engagement, Oct. 9-12, at Miami’s Kaseya Center, the first of 11 arenas booked in U.S. cities during the homestretch of the tour.

Following the Miami opener, she is set to perform two concerts at all but two of the arenas on the remaining tour schedule, one of them Orlando’s Kia Center where she played one show on Oct. 14. The other is Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia where she will appear on Oct. 23. Then, the tour’s finale will be held in San Francisco at Chase Center with shows on Nov. 22 and 23.

With her appearance at No. 5 in the APX ranking, Eilish is one of six female headliners to land in the top 10 on the chart. Topping that list is Lady Gaga, who remains at No. 1 for a second week while touring with “The Mayhem Ball.” She is currently on the European leg of the tour that features shows at arenas in eight countries on the continent through Nov. 22. But a final five-show trek through three Australian markets will complete her 2025 tour schedule in December.

Dua Lipa follows at No. 6 on the Artist Power Index, a ranking she earned after scoring the fifth-best Live rank among all the performers on the 50-position chart. That is the highest Live score among the six women in the top 10 and comes during the last stretch of U.S. dates on her “Radical Optimism Tour,” set to wrap with a final series of Latin American shows in November and December.

European arena dates on Katy Perry’s “The Lifetimes Tour” earn her the No. 7 position on the Artist Power Index, and Karol G’s four cabaret shows at the Crazy Horse Paris in September help her land the eighth ranking. Finally, Tate McRae moves to No. 10 on the chart with only three weeks remaining on her “Miss Possessive Tour,” set to wrap in Los Angeles on Nov. 8.

Like APX, the LIVE75 chart sees a repeat appearance at No. 1 as Ed Sheeran makes it four weeks in a row with the highest ranking. Ticket sales at the final stadium on his “Mathematics” tour earn the pop star the top ranking based on a sold-ticket average of 63,572 per show at Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, Sept. 5-7.

LIVE75 has 29 new touring artists joining the lineup this week, including a top 10 debut by the Eagles at No. 8 based on ticket sales from six performances of the band’s concert residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. The shows were the first of 12 booked during the second half of 2025, beginning on Sept. 5. Then, the final performance this year will be on Nov. 8.

With sellouts at all six performances, the residency averaged 16,266 sold seats and more than $4.8 million in ticket revenue per night. Altogether, since the beginning of the year, the group has sold a total of 359,621 tickets at 22 Sphere performances, grossing a whopping $104 million. That brings their overall box-office haul at Sphere to $190 million since the first performance on Sept. 20, 2024. The total number of sold tickets is 621,380 from the 38 shows performed through Oct. 4.

On Global Concert Pulse, there is a new headliner at No. 1 as K-pop band Stray Kids moves to the top based on a three-month gross average of $8.05 million per show from eight performances. The sold-out shows occurred during July and were staged at stadiums in Europe as part of the “Dominate World Tour,” set to end with two stadium performances in Incheon, South Korea, Oct. 18-19. The eight-member group replaced Beyoncé, who dropped off the chart after moving out of the eligibility timeframe. She reigned at No. 1 for 20 consecutive weeks, based on gross averages from her “Cowboy Carter Tour.”