Top Tours: Phish’s Summer Run At Madison Square Garden Brings Career Gross At The Arena To $139 Million From 96 Shows

Phish is inching toward a historic milestone at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, as the band is only four shows away from playing the 100^th performance at the arena during their multiple-decade career. With ticket sales from 96 concerts reported to Pollstar during the past 32 years, the group has racked up an overall gross of $139 million from 1,739,752 sold tickets since first headlining a show at the venue on Dec. 30, 1994. This year, their annual summer tour included a five-show run in New York, July 22-29, with ticket sales totaling 83,183 and a gross of $9.8 million.

Since their 1994 Madison Square Garden debut, Phish has a career-long average of 18,122 tickets sold per show at the arena. At that inaugural performance, they grossed $431,212, valued at about $972,000 today, from a 1990s-era ticket price of $22.50. Attendance that night, though, was 19,165, which is still one of their biggest crowds on record at the venue.

Their largest average number of tickets sold per concert was 19,285 from four shows at the end of 2013 leading up to New Year’s Eve. That event is followed by another four-night New Year’s run that averaged 19,239 sold tickets from two shows at the end of 2015 and two more at the beginning of January 2016.

Along with those two events, the band averaged over 19,000 tickets at multiple-show engagements only five more times, and all but one of them were also for four-night New Year’s runs. They averaged 19,141 tickets in December of 2016; 19,140 in 2017; 19,021 in 2018 and 19,019 in 2019. The other event was a four-show stint in April 2022 that averaged 19,036 tickets per concert.

Along with the five New York shows on Phish’s current summer tour, two concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland have also been reported as of press time. Ticket sales from performances on July 18 on 19 at the Washington, D.C.-area amphitheater totaled 36,444 for a combined gross of $2.7 million.

A per-show average of 17,089 tickets sold at all seven concerts – the five in New York, along with the two in Washington – earns Phish the No. 7 ranking on the weekly LIVE75 lineup, along with the “Hot Shot” tag for the concert headliner with the highest ranked debut on the chart.

Phish’s summer tour is set to wrap in early September with the return of the band’s traditional Labor Day weekend event at DICKS’S Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, following a break in 2025. Their four shows there in 2024 drew 80,562 fans from Aug. 29 through Sep. 1 and grossed $7.4 million. They first played at the Denver-area soccer stadium during the holiday weekend in 2011 and continued to perform there every year at Labor Day through 2024, except during 2020’s COVID shutdown.

And, as recently announced, the band has added a string of October concerts to their 2026 touring plans with arena shows set for Atlantic City, New Jersey and Jacksonville, Florida. Then, two-show runs at amphitheaters in Richmond, Virgina and Huntsville, Alabama, round out the fall schedule.