Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour

[RyanS]

The Farewell Yellow Brick Road has now crossed 300 shows played worldwide, with the 300th show in Berlin, Germany on May 11th. 283 of the shows are boxscored, only the Hyde Park London show is not as this was part of the BST Festival. 45 more shows are to be reported, 44 of which are scorable.

Elton is currently saying nightly the show count before the last song, but he is saying 2 shows more than have actually been played as the shows in Verona, Italy (2019) and Liverpool, UK (2020) were cancelled. The show at Mannheim, Germany for May 13th was also cancelled due to illness. It is very unlikely they will reschedule any of the cancelled shows, and so the final show count for this tour looks like it will be 328, with 326 scored shows (Glastonbury is also unscorable).

[Forreal]

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[AndiIversen]

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[RyanS]

Missing scores reported:

Resorts World Arena, Birmingham: 12,159 (100%) - $2,077,333
SSE Arena, Belfast: 8,224 (100%) - $1,565,824

It seems the London BST date from last summer and Glastonbury this summer will be the only 2 non-scorable dates for this tour.

[Forreal]

He closed with a bang …

[RyanS]

MAJOR UPDATE FROM BILLBOARD BOXSCORE

Gross: $853 million
Attendance: 5.5 million
Shows: 293

With eight shows in Australia and New Zealand in January 2023, Elton John officially secured the highest grossing tour of all time. And after early reports from his final European leg — including a nine-show sweep at London’s O2 Arena — he further extends the record, passing the $850 million mark. His farewell run launched in 2018 and was scheduled for three years. That plan is still on, though interrupted by two years of COVID lockdown. He began in arenas before the pandemic and graduated to global stadiums after, accelerating the tour’s rise from a top 20 contender to the all-time champ. While on tour, John’s career earnings have grown to $1.898 billion, making him the highest grossing solo artist of all time.

Newly reported scores:

March 2023
$10,091,489 / 56,143 tickets / 6 shows

Individual scores:

$3,309,770 (2 shows)
17,030 / 17,030 (100%)
3Arena / Dublin, Ireland

$3,138,562 (2 shows)
18,730 / 18,730 (100%)
M&S Bank Arena / Liverpool, UK

This leaves $3,643,157 and 20,383 tickets split between Belfast, Northern Ireland and Birmingham, UK for the remaining dates from March 2023. No breakdown of those scores as they're below the monthly Top 30.

Billboard's increase to $853m as the running total through April 20th would account for the 10 UK shows (9 of which were London) which will report in April's boxscore. This would mean the London shows averaged well above $2m per night!

[RyanS]

The tour resumed this weekend in Liverpool, UK. This is the final leg of the farewell tour, which includes a 10-night O2 London run, and a headlining slot at Glastonbury!

[AndiIversen]

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[AndiIversen]

[Neha gi]

As a late 75th birthday to his fans, Elton John sets out the remaining dates for his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road The Final Tour."

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[RyanS]

https://www.billboard.com/pro/elton-...xscore-report/

Elton John Breaks & Extends Records Atop January Boxscore Report


The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour brought in another $40.9 million during the first month of 2023.

Though the calendar year has flipped and Billboard’s January Boxscore report celebrates the beginning of a new year in touring, the top of the charts carry over what became a constant toward the end of 2022. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour earned $40.9 million during the month, securing his seventh at No. 1 on the Top Tours chart overall, and third in the last four months.

Beyond extending his record for time atop the ranking, notably, January’s Oceania leg of John’s sprawling farewell tour pushed the entire run’s gross to $817.9 million – making it the highest grossing tour of all time. It surpasses Ed Sheeran’s The Divide Tour ($776.4 million), which set the previous high mark in 2019, and U2’s The 360 Tour ($736.4 million), which had held the title since 2011.

Simultaneously, John leads the Top Boxscores chart with $11.3 million at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium on Jan. 17-18. Since the charts launched in February 2019, it’s the ninth time an artist has ruled both rankings, and the second for John, who first did so in January 2020. BTS is the only other act to double-up twice.

John’s $40-million January breaks down to two stadiums shows apiece in Newcastle (Jan. 9, 11), Melbourne (Jan. 14-15) and Sydney (Jan. 18-19), plus single shows in Brisbane (Jan. 22) and Christchurch (Jan. 25).

Not only does John crown the Boxscores ranking, he follows himself at Nos. 2 (Melbourne), 4 (Newcastle), 6 (Brisbane), and 11 (Christchurch). Blanketing the chart with four top 10 appearances, he set himself apart from the pack in stadiums during Australia and New Zealand’s summer, while the Northern winter kept last year’s holdovers dormant and 2023’s from beginning later into the spring.

January 2023 boxscore sheet:

[RyanS]

January boxscores

$11,274,550 (2 shows)
65,327 / 65,327 (100%)
Allianz Stadium / Sydney, Australia

$10,282,598 (2 shows)
58,129 / 58,129 (100%)
AAMI Park / Melbourne, Australia

$8,424,664 (2 shows)
47,230 / 47,230 (100%)
McDonald Jones Stadium / Newcastle, Australia

$6,950,826
43,500 / 43,500 (100%)
Suncorp Stadium / Brisbane, Australia

$3,964,296
27,867 / 27,867 (100%)
Orangetheory Stadium / Christchurch, New Zealand

[Forreal]

He is ending her tour career with a bang!! Well deserved after all

[RyanS]

This started in 2018???

Yeah it was supposed to be ~3.5 years, mid 2018 to late 2021, but the pandemic pushed it out by 18 months.

[Forreal]

This started in 2018???

[RyanS]

"Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour Is the Highest-Grossing Concert Tour of All Time"
It is the first trek in Billboard Boxscore history to gross $800 million.

In January 2018, Elton John announced his impending retirement from touring, but only after a worldwide, multi-year farewell tour to say goodbye. He kicked off the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour in September of that year and began a record-breaking run, though it isn’t over yet.

According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour has grossed $817.9 million across 278 shows so far — more than any tour in Boxscore history. Bypassing Ed Sheeran’s The Divide Tour ($776.4 million), it is the first tour in Billboard’s archives to cross the $800 million benchmark.

The Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour was promoted by AEG Presents, with select local partners in certain international markets.

Sheeran set the record in 2019 toward the end of his 258-show run, replacing U2’s The 360 Tour ($736.4 million). Both of those tours went far and wide, playing six and five continents, respectively, and spending most, if not all, of their time in stadiums. Conversely, John spent 2018-20 and the first quarter of 2022 in arenas in North America, Europe, and Oceania, before advancing to stadiums in each continent for the tour’s final year.

That advancement paid off. John’s first three North American legs combined to $268.2 million over 116 shows. His stadium run from July – Nov. 2022 brought in $222.1 million, or 83% of his arena grosses, in just 33 shows.

Similarly, his European stadium outgrossed his arena leg, $69.2 million to $49.9 million, despite playing 12 fewer shows. And most recently, his average per-show gross in Australia and New Zealand swelled from $2.5 million in 2019-20 in arenas to $5.1 million in stadiums.

In total, the January ’23 Oceania leg grossed $40.9 million and sold 242,000 tickets. Combined with updated North American grosses to account for previously unreported platinum lifts, the Farewell tour’s total revenue surges passed $800 million, with 51 European shows still to play through July 8.

While the tour’s first couple years in arenas certainly laid the foundation for John to scale the all-time ranking, it took three full legs in North America and Europe to hit the all-time top 40, at $217.8 million after 108 shows. His return to the U.S. and Canada in the Fall of 2019 lifted the tour’s total to $292.3 million, moving up to No. 20.

The following Oceania leg from Nov. 2019 – March 2020 (it was mercifully scheduled to end days before the global lockdown began) brought the gross up to $385.4 million, lifting to No. 13. John’s post-COVID North American arena run added $100 million, climbing into the all-time top 10 at No. 6 with $485.7 million. The stadium run in Europe brought him to No. 4, followed by a nudge to No. 2 with North American shows, finally ascending to the all-time crown with a brief run in Oceania from Jan. 8-24. 6

Sorting by tickets sold, John still has a way to go on the all-time ranking. The Farewell Yellow Brick Road has sold 5.3 million tickets, ranked behind Sheeran and U2’s previous record-holders, in addition to The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge Tour (1994-95), Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour (2016-17) and Guns N’ Roses’ Not in This Lifetime… Tour (2016-19). Sheeran’s Divide Tour still stands atop the all-time attendance chart with 8.9 million tickets.

While it’s next-to-impossible for John to catch up to the tickets-sold record with just one leg of shows, his European dates will allow him to pass Coldplay and GNR, presumably moving into fourth place on the all-time list. Returning to “intimate” arenas for the final leg, John could be setting his sights on another unprecedented benchmark, sure to approach and likely to cross $900 million by his final performance.

Dating back to reports for John’s Ice on Fire Tour (1986), and including his share of co-headline runs with Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Tina Turner, and, many times over, Billy Joel, John has grossed $1.863 billion and sold 19.9 million tickets over 1,573 reported shows. That’s the highest career gross and attendance for a solo artist in Boxscore history, having passed Bruce Springsteen and Madonna while on this tour. On Billboard’s 2019 recap of the top 125 artists of all time, John finished at No. 3, behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

[Nost]

King of world.

[RyanS]

Damn, he crossed $800m with just the Australian dates added along with missing shows. I hope they release the individual scores!

[Sebastian]

Watch him tour again in 5 years or so

[Wayne]

He's already the top-grossing soloist of all-time - I think he'd grossed like $2 billion even before this tour - but I wonder how close he is to $3 billion...

[AndiIversen]

whoa! I'd retire too

[Wayne]

Incredible really!