Ed Sheeran Is No. 1 On LIVE75 Following Final Stadium Show On ‘Mathematics’ Tour

Ed Sheeran scores the No. 1 ranking on LIVE75 after completing his long running “+-=÷x Tour,” pronounced Mathematics Tour, that wrapped after a three-and-a-half-year run with a final stop at Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, Sep. 5-7. With 190,718 fans in attendance, the three performances grossed $18 million, bringing the tour’s overall box-office haul to $807 million, although that number will climb as several of the final European stadium dates have not yet been reported. Currently, 160 shows from the tour are stored in the archives with the total number of tickets surpassing 8.1 million.

Along with the Düsseldorf shows, Sheeran’s two concerts at Stadion Letzigrund in Zürich, Switzerland also land in the LIVE75 chart’s period of eligibility. So, with 94,745 tickets sold at those shows, Aug. 2-3, his five-night ticket total from both markets is 285,463. That averages 57,092 per show which earns the top chart ranking.

The grosses from all five “Mathematics” shows total $33.5 million, giving Sheeran a $6.7 million gross average per night, the third highest on the chart. He follows The Weeknd, who averaged $7.06 million at 13 stadium performances, and My Chemical Romance with the highest per-show average of $8.38 million from seven stadium shows on the band’s “Long Live The Black Parade” tour.

My Chemical Romance, No. 4 on the chart, launched their tour on July 11 at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, the first of 10 stadiums booked in the U.S. and Canada through Sep. 13. With opening sets provided by different artists at each venue, the band performed primarily in Major League Baseball parks, although NFL football stadiums in the New York City, Chicago and Tampa, Florida markets were also in the mix. Overall grosses from the nine-week, Live Nation-produced tour ultimately totaled $88.6 million from 448,045 tickets at 11 shows.

Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, the only venue on the tour with two shows booked this summer, moved a total of 87,431 tickets, July 26-27, for a $15 million gross. The largest crowd at a single performance was 48,489 for the tour’s North American finale at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. That show on Sep. 13 grossed $9.8 million. Chicago’s Soldier Field claims the highest gross among the single performances with $10.7 million earned from 46,434 sold seats on Aug. 29.

My Chemical Romance also recently headlined the second day of the Shaky Knees Music Festival, held at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Sep. 19-21. Looking ahead to 2026, the band will resume the “Long Live the Black Parade” tour with a trek through Latin America and Asia beginning in January, followed by stadium dates in Europe and the U.S. next summer.

Entering the lineup on LIVE75 with the highest ranked debut is Kali Uchis, the “Hot Shot” touring artist with the No. 21 ranking, based on a ticket average of 11,562 from three shows. Two sellouts at New York’s Madison Square Garden and a single sold-out event at PHX Arena in Phoenix drew 34,688 fans: 11,963 of them in Arizona on Aug. 27 and 22,725 in New York, Sep. 11-12. The Virginia native kicked off her “The Sincerely, Tour” on Aug. 14 at Portland, Oregon’s Moda Center, while a final arena event is planned for Sep. 28 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. She is also booked for an Oct. 23 performance at Yaamava’ Theater at Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland, California.

On the Artist Power Index, only two concert headliners debut on the chart. The highest ranked is Twenty One Pilots at No. 28 after the band began the final North American leg of “The Clancy World Tour,” set to continue this year through October. Aside from the Sep. 18 opener at Cincinnati’s soccer-specific venue, TQL Stadium, the bulk of the shows during the ongoing leg are set in outdoor amphitheaters. Two other stadium dates are also included, however, including Hershey, Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark Stadium which will host the band Sep. 27. Then, the final two shows this year will be held at another Major League Soccer venue, BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, Oct. 25-26.Finally, OneRepublic joins the Artist Power Index at No. 30 following the launch of the band’s “Escape to Europe” tour that began at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, Sep. 18. Arena dates are booked on the continent through mid-November with a final European show planned at MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Then in 2026, the group will be on the road in New Zealand and Australia, followed by a trek through Asian cities through early March.