This Week’s Top Tours: Luke Combs, Gorillaz & James Arthur Have Top-Ranked Chart Debuts

Top debuts on the weekly Pollstar charts belong to Luke Combs on the Artist Power Index and Gorillaz on LIVE75, both following the launch of new world tours, while James Arthur joins the lineup on Global Concert Pulse, ranked highest among the 10 artists debuting this week. APX features debuts by a total of six concert performers, and LIVE75 has 11 new chart entries.

Combs lands on the Artist Power Index at No. 11 after kicking off his “My Kinda Saturday Night Tour” at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on March 21. Sold tickets at the show numbered 66,250, and the concert’s gross total was logged at $8.85 million. The stadium event also featured opening performances by Dierks Bentley, Ty Myers and Thelma & James.

The tour next heads to Charlottesville, Virginia, for an April 4 event at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium, followed by a string of stadium dates in eight more North American cities through early June. The country star last played U.S. stadiums in 2024 on his “Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour,” racking up $165 million at the box office from more than 1.23 million tickets sold at 25 shows. 

Later this year, Combs will take his tour to Europe for a run of 10 shows in five countries during the summer. Among his scheduled dates are two-night stints in Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland, followed by a three-show tour finale at Wembley Stadium in London, July 31-Aug. 2.

Gorillaz’s new tour, named “The Mountain Tour” in support of the band’s most recent studio album, released earlier this year, began with a pair of arena shows at Co-op Live in Manchester, England, on March 20-21, attended by 33,243 fans over two nights. Based on reported ticket sales at the first four shows on the tour, the average number of tickets sold per show totaled 15,836, which earns the No. 4 ranking on LIVE75, along with “Hot Shot” status for the band as the touring headliner with the top-ranked debut.

Prior to the tour opener, Gorillaz also played two warm-up shows in Bradford, England’s 3,500-capacity concert venue, Bradford Live. The concerts there, March 13-14, drew crowds of 3,088 on the first night and 3,217 on the second.

“The Mountain Tour” will run throughout the year, booked at arenas in the U.K. and Ireland through April 2, followed by a string of festival appearances in Europe during the summer months. The tour also features a stadium performance in London on June 20 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Finally, a run of North American arena shows will kick off in September, with a final stretch of Latin American dates completing the tour in November and December.

Arthur’s debut on Global Concert Pulse at No. 17 follows the end of the European trek on the English singer-songwriter’s “Pisces World Tour,” supporting his sixth studio album. The tour began last year in North America on the heels of the album’s April 2025 release, launching in Canada in May and remaining on the continent into July. Then he began his run through Europe on Nov. 16 with dates planned through mid-December.

He extended the European leg into 2026 with a run of arena dates beginning in late January, culminating with a Feb. 23 performance at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England. With box-office totals reported from eight concerts during the Global Concert Pulse’s most recent three-month period of eligibility, he averaged $665,618 per show to earn his spot on the chart. His ticket count for the same eight shows averaged 9,512 per concert.

Elsewhere on the charts, Bad Bunny continues his run at No. 1 on Global Concert Pulse with an $8.8 million per-show average from 21 shows reported during the past three months. Likewise, Lady Gaga continues her stand at the top of the Artist Power Index based on North American concerts during the final weeks of “The Mayhem Ball,” set to wrap April 13.

LIVE75, however, features an upward move of one position for Eagles, ranked No. 1 on the chart with a ticket average of 16,382 from four February performances of the band’s residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. Along with their ticket average, they also averaged $4.7 million in grosses per show at the same four concerts.