Boxoffice Insider: Bruno Mars’ Tour Will Be One Of The Year’s Best At The Box Office, But Will Grosses Reach Over Half A Billion Dollars?

Bruno Mars’ “The Romantic Tour” launched with considerable fanfare on April 10 when the city of Las Vegas declared “Bruno Mars Day” and changed the name of Park Avenue to Bruno Mars Drive prior to his concerts at Allegiant Stadium. Yet, with his eight-month trek through North America and Europe this year, the celebrations may just be getting started.

The 16-time Grammy Award winner should certainly have one of the highest grossing tours of the year, if he performs all 74 stadium shows booked through Nov. 11, the cutoff date for Pollstar’s 2026 chart year. But whether his overall gross lands in the $450 million range, as it would if this year’s grosses are similar to his last tour, or somewhere near the $500 million threshold remains to be seen.

His most recent tour booked primarily in larger venues was “Bruno Mars Live” which played stadiums in 20 cities on four continents, October 2022 through November 2024. He grossed $300.2 million from 2.5 million tickets sold at the tour’s 49 headlining shows set in stadiums and other large venues. His average gross from those concerts was $6.13 million.

An average gross of that size certainly falls in the range of other top-tier artists who performed at stadiums in recent years. Coldplay, The Weeknd and P!NK all averaged over $6 million per show on their last stadium tours. Likewise, all three of those headliners also had an average ticket price in a similar range.

During the three-and-a-half years of Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres Tour,” the band’s average ticket price came to $115.90, while The Weeknd’s “After Hours til Dawn” tour had a $126.33 average price during a three-year span. The average price on P!NK’s “Summer Carnival” stadium run was a bit higher at $133.72, while Mars’ 2022-2024 tour landed right in the middle with an average ticket price of $122.43.

Two other tours in the past two years, however, produced considerably higher gross averages with average ticket prices that were also significantly larger. Taylor Swift’s average gross per show on “The Eras Tour” (2023-2024) was the highest of all at $13.9 million, followed closely by Beyoncé with an average of $12.7 million per show last year on her “Cowboy Carter Tour.” Between those two superstars, though, Beyoncé had the largest average ticket price of $255.36, while Swift’s average price peaked at $204.33.

So, as has typically been the case since the return to live entertainment in the years following the pandemic shutdown, ticket prices will dictate just how close Mars and other major concert headliners get to the half-billion-dollar mark in overall tour grosses. His advertised ticket prices on ticketing websites feature a wide range, from the low $200s to $1,000 or more. But there is great fluidity in ticket pricing around the globe, so as box-office figures begin to be reported from “The Romantic Tour” and tours by other artists, the picture will become clearer.

Regarding other tours in 2026, Bad Bunny could land in the $450 million range with his “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour” that has grossed $225 million so far at 27 stadium shows. BTS will also make an impact this year. Using their $6.8 million per-show average from 2022, the 62 stadium shows on their “Arirang World Tour” this year could also land in that range.