Top Tours: Shane Gillis Sets New Attendance Record At Boston Arena, Earns Top Debut On Live75

Shane Gillis has the highest ranked debut on LIVE75 following his recent record-setting appearance at TD Garden in Boston. With 51,145 tickets sold at three performances, May 7-9, his engagement is now the best attended multiple-night comedy run in the arena’s history. His success in Boston also impacts Pollstar’s weekly chart, earning the comedian the No. 2 ranking with an average of 17,048 tickets sold per show. It is the highest ticket average on the chart for any event in an arena.

The Boston event was the second three-show run for Gillis in 2026. Early in the year, he performed three nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Jan. 22-24. And later in April, he kicked off a string of more arena dates beginning with a two-show stint at United Center in Chicago, followed by single performances at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and Charlotte’s Spectrum Center. Then in May, he appeared in the Los Angeles area at both the Hollywood Bowl and Kia Forum.

Last year, Gillis also played arenas in North American cities and averaged 15,426 sold tickets per show, based on box-office figures reported throughout the year. His best attendance was recorded at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. with 19,619 tickets sold on April 12, but he also topped 19,000 in ticket sales at two more venues. He sold 19,172 tickets at Cleveland, Ohio’s Rocket Arena on April 11 and 19,003 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York on May 3.

Gillis currently has one more show scheduled this year, and it’s a big one. He will be returning to his home state of Pennsylvania on July 17 for one performance at Philadelphia’s NFL football stadium, Lincoln Financial Field. Stadium events by comedians are rare, but they do appear in the Pollstar archives. Gabriel Iglesias currently has the best attendance recorded at a stadium by a comedy artist. He sold 53,492 tickets at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, May 6-7, 2022, as part of the inaugural “Netflix Is a Joke” comedy festival held in the L.A. area.

Elsewhere on LIVE75, two more artists debut in the top 10 on the chart, both based on box-office totals from European tours. Pop artist Alex Warren enters the lineup at No. 4 with a 21-show ticket average of 14,207 from his “Little Orphan Alex Live” tour that began on April 4 at PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany. His arena trek continued through May 7, wrapping with a two-show run at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.

Then, Tame Impala takes the seventh ranking on LIVE75 with a per-show average of 13,631 tickets from three performances at European arenas booked on the group’s “Deadbeat Tour.” Along with PSD Bank Dome, the tour’s concerts at LDLC Arena in Decines-Charpieu, France and Hallenstadion in Zürich, Switzerland also contributed to the ticket average.  

Country superstar Luke Combs maintains his hold at No. 1 on LIVE75 as the only touring artist on the chart with stadium box-office results reported during the past month. He scores the top ranking for a fourth consecutive week with a per-show ticket average of 78,913 from five concerts at U.S. university venues, beginning with the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium in Charlottesville on April 4. Sold-out concerts followed at Iowa State’s Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Notre Dame Stadium in Indiana, Ohio Stadium at The Ohio State University in Columbus and the University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.

The Artist Power Index and Global Concert Pulse also feature repeat appearances at the top. Bruno Mars is No. 1 on APX for a fifth week while touring in support of his latest album The Romantic, and Ed Sheeran, who just resumed his “Loop Tour” in Latin America, makes it three weeks at No. 1 on GCP.