Ed Sheeran Scores No. 1 Ranking On Artist Power Index With ‘Loop Tour’ Launch

Ed Sheeran jumps to No. 1 on the Artist Power Index following the 2026 launch of his “Loop Tour,” which is booked for 51 shows this year at stadiums in Oceania and the Americas. After playing a string of December dates promoting his latest studio album, Play, released last September, his first tour stop in January was a two-show engagement at Go Media Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, Jan. 16 and 17. It marked his return to the venue, formerly known as Mt Smart Stadium, for the first time since playing three nights in 2018 during his “Divide” tour.

Stadium dates in two more New Zealand cities, Wellington and Christchurch, are also planned for this month, then the tour’s five-city Australian run will kick off on Jan. 31 at Optus Stadium in Perth. Three show runs in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and a single performance in Adelaide will complete the Oceania trek.

Latin American shows in seven cities on the “Loop Tour” will follow in May before Sheeran heads to North America in June for the remainder of the year. The tour is currently set to wrap on Nov. 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Bad Bunny hangs on to his No. 1 ranking on two charts with box-office sales figures reported from his “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour.” An average of 56,498 sold tickets per show at the first 17 concerts on the tour secures his hold at the top on LIVE75, while his $8.1 million gross average earns another chart-topping week on the Global Concert Pulse.

The tour’s first series of concerts during November and December featured multiple shows in three markets, including Mexico City, where he racked up an $81 million gross from more than half-a-million tickets at eight concerts. This week’s chart tallies, though, include the earlier 2025 ticket sales numbers, along with totals from the first two venues on this year’s schedule, the national stadiums in both Santiago, Chile, and Lima, Peru.

Santiago’s Estadio Nacional moved a total of 169,461 tickets over three nights, Jan. 9-11, for a gross of $20.1 million, and Lima’s stadium drew 93,612 fans for two shows, Jan. 16-17. The combined gross from both performances in Peru reached $16.8 million. Concerts in three more Latin American buildings are booked through Feb. 21.

Among the three highest-ranked concert headliners making their debuts on the charts, Zac Brown Band enters the lineup on Global Concert Pulse with the top ranking among them at No. 4. The group averaged $3.2 million per show based on sales from eight performances during December and January at Sphere in Las Vegas. The launch of the residency on Dec. 5 coincided with the release of Love & Fear, the band’s eighth studio album. Together at all eight shows, attendance totaled 129,331 with a gross totaling $25.6 million.

LIVE75’s top debut belongs to Lorde, who appears at No. 8 on this week’s chart with a three-show ticket average of 13,741. The first of her reported shows was a concert on Nov. 19 at The OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, attended by 13,965 fans, during last fall’s European leg of her “Ultrasound World Tour.” Then her last two concerts in 2025 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 16 and 17, added 27,260 tickets to the total three-show ticket count of 41,225.

On the Artist Power Index, three headliners, Linkin Park, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton, return to the chart after having previously appeared in the top 50 at least one week during the past quarter, but the highest ranked debut goes to Calvin Harris at No. 20. The Scottish DJ joins the lineup following his Jan. 17 appearance at Lummus Park in Miami Beach, Florida, as part of the “AT&T Playoff Playlist LIVE!” ahead of the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 19. The free concert Saturday night also featured appearances by John Summit and Xandra. Then, the following evening, Peso Pluma topped the lineup along with Latin Mafia and Greeicy.