Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Guns N’ Roses All Repeat At No. 1 On Weekly Charts

Three of Pollstar’s charts feature repeat appearances at No. 1, but while The Weeknd only reached the top of Global Concert Pulse and Guns N’ Roses debuted at No. 1 on LIVE75 one week ago, Lady Gaga’s stint atop the Artist Power Index stretches into a fifth week. Her success on the chart is fueled by arena performances on her current tour, “The Mayhem Ball,” now in the homestretch of its eight-week trek through Europe. Box-office figures from the first five venues booked on the continent show that 216,750 tickets were purchased at 14 concerts in the U.K., Sweden, Italy and Spain through Oct. 31. Grosses from those dates total $38.2 million.

The first venue she played on the European trek was The O2 in London, which hosted the tour from Sept. 29 through Oct. 4. From four shows at the arena, she sold a total of 63,629 tickets. She is set to play one more four-show engagement in Europe this year, and it comes at the end of the run. She will appear at Accor Arena in Paris with performances on Nov. 17, 18, 20 and 22. The last time she played both of those venues was eleven years ago during her “ArtRave: The Artpop Ball” tour.

So far, since “The Mayhem Ball” began on July 16 in Las Vegas, Lady Gaga has racked up more than $140 million in North America and Europe. Ticket sales top half a million at last count, peaking at 594,979 from a total of 41 reported concerts since launch. Prior to her London engagement, she also played four shows at two U.S. arenas: Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, July 28-Aug. 2, selling 54,809 tickets, and New York’s Madison Square Garden with 54,390 sold seats, Aug. 22-27.

The Weeknd’s second week at No. 1 on Global Concert Pulse is the result of a $7.07 million gross average from his final 12 tour performances this year in North American cities. At one Canadian and seven U.S. stadiums booked on the “After Hours til Dawn Tour,” he sold 554,391 tickets for a collective gross of $84.8 million. Among those eight venues, his largest ticket total was recorded at Houston’s NRG Stadium with 97,043 fans in attendance, Aug. 30-31.

Guns N’ Roses earns a second appearance at the top on LIVE75 with ticket sales reported from the first eight shows on the Latin American leg of the band’s current world tour. The hard rock veterans remain at No. 1 with an average of 29,904 tickets sold per show, from Oct. 1 through 21.

Since the group’s “Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things Tour” kicked off earlier this year in May, with treks in Asia and Europe prior to the current Latin American run, 928,421 tickets have been sold at 28 concerts, while the overall gross from the tour currently totals $103.4 million. Only the sales figures from the final six shows remain unreported on the tour, set to wrap in Mexico City on Nov. 8.

Among the performers making their debut on the charts, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Stevie Nicks joins the lineup on two of them. She enters LIVE75 with “Hot Shot” status as the touring artist with the highest-ranked debut at No. 8, then bows on Global Concert Pulse, also at No. 8 with the top debut. Both chart appearances are based on reported ticket sales from her current tour set in U.S. arenas. After kicking off the fall run at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, she performed for 99,937 fans at eight venues during October and grossed over $20.3 million.

Then on the Artist Power Index, Metallica earns the top debut at No. 18 after taking the “M72 World Tour” to Australia and New Zealand for a string of stadium shows during November. Kicking off at Optus Stadium in Perth on the 1^st of the month, the trek Down Under will continue through Nov. 19 with additional shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland. Since launching in April of 2023, the tour has been booked in Europe, North America and Asia, and the current trek adds Oceania to the list.