Bruno Mars Tops Pollstar APX Chart With ‘The Romantic Tour’ Launch

Bruno Mars is on a roll.

He enters Pollstar’s Artist Power Index ranked No. 1 following the launch of “The Romantic Tour,” his new headlining trek booked at stadiums in 33 cities in North America and Europe with close to 80 dates. This follows his record-setting on-sale for the “The Romantic Tour,” which was the largest single-day ticket sale in history, selling 2.1 million tickets. And now with his opening two-show engagement, April 10-11, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, which kicked off the opening leg of the tour that will remain in the U.S. and Canada through the end of May, he tops Pollstar’s APX survey.

Prior to the opener, Mars was honored by the city of Las Vegas with a declaration of “Bruno Mars Day,” a parade and a ceremonial key to the Las Vegas Strip with that city’s Park Avenue renamed Bruno Mars Drive in celebration of the artist who has been a mainstay attraction in the city with his concert residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM.

Mars’ new tour supports his fourth solo studio album, The Romantic, released Feb. 27 on Atlantic Records, and will feature a total of 78 shows throughout the year.

Pollstar archives include his earlier events in the live entertainment mecca with arena concerts recorded at both T-Mobile Arena and MGM Grand Garden Arena. Multiple shows at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan over a decade ago are also part of his box-office history at Las Vegas venues. He last toured between 2022 and 2024, performing primarily in stadiums around the world with grosses from 54 headlining concerts during those years totaling $313 million. With just over 2.5 million tickets sold at 22 venues worldwide, his largest events included a seven-show run in 2024 at Tokyo Dome in Japan with 322,000 tickets sold. Later that year, he also played six nights at MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil with 403,622 in attendance.

On the current tour, Mars will appear on multiple nights at most of the stadiums on the schedule including Toronto’s Rogers Stadium with five shows planned at the end of May. Later this summer, the tour’s European leg will feature a six-show run at London’s Wembley Stadium, while the fall trek through North America will stop for five nights at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California and BC Place in Vancouver. Then, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey will host four performances, as will Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City where the tour will wrap in December.

The Artist Power Index also features two more top 10 debuts following the launch of new tours. With the return of BTS after members of the group completed South Korea’s mandatory military service, they enter the ranking at No. 3 after kicking off the “Arirang World Tour” with a three-night engagement at Goyang Stadium in the band’s home country. Then, at No. 7, country superstar Morgan Wallen hits the chart following the opening shows of his “Still The Problem” stadium tour that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota at U.S. Bank Stadium, April 10-11.

On LIVE75, Ed Sheeran appears at No. 1 for the second time in 2026, based on tickets sold during the opening Oceania leg of his “Loop Tour.” With 171,182 tickets sold at the last three performances at stadiums in Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia, he averaged 57,060 tickets per show to take the top chart ranking. Currently on hiatus, the tour is set to resume on May 9 in Latin America.

Then, Global Concert Pulse features Bad Bunny with his 14^th appearance at No. 1 this year, based on an $8.24 million gross average from 12 performances during the past three months. The chart also has top 10 debuts by two other headliners beginning with ILLENIUM at No. 5. The DJ averaged $2.68 million per concert at his nine-show residency at Sphere in Las Vegas that ran from March 5 through April 4.

Then, Nine Inch Nails’ No. 10 ranking is based on an average gross of $1.33 million from the 2026 North American leg of the band’s “Peel It Back Tour” that resumed earlier this year after a three-month run through Europe and North America in 2025. Between Feb. 5 and March 16 of this year, the group sold 250,480 tickets at 22 concerts for a combined gross of $29.3 million.