Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ First To Exceed $1 Billion, Crowns Pollstar’s Year-End Top Tours List

Taylor Swift performs onstage during night one of “The Eras Tour” at Nissan Stadium. Photo: John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management

Pollstar has revealed its 2023 year-end charts, tallying up the most successful tours of the year. To no surprise, Taylor Swift’s record-breaking “Eras Tour” claims the No. 1 position on Pollstar’s 2023 Year-End Top Worldwide Tours and Top North American Tours charts.

Swift’s historic, $1 billion-plus-grossing “Eras Tour” highlighted a record-setting year for the live entertainment industry in 2023, with concert business up double-digit percentages in virtually every metric, with Swift’s tour topping all previous tours in ticket sales in a year marked by blockbusters. For the Pollstar eligibility box office year (Nov. 17, 2022-Nov. 15, 2023), Swift took in an estimated ticket gross of $1.04 billion, with 4.35 million tickets sold from 60 shows that took place during the period.

In addition to Swift, the Top 10 rankings on 2023’s Worldwide Tours are Beyoncé (No. 2), Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (No. 3), Coldplay (No. 4), Harry Styles (No. 5), Morgan Wallen (No. 6), Ed Sheeran (No. 7), P!nk (No. 8), The Weeknd (No. 9) and Drake (No. 10).

Charting in the Top 10 of the North American Tours along with Swift are Beyoncé (No. 2), Wallen (No. 3), Drake (No. 4), P!nk (No. 5), Springsteen & The E Street Band (No. 6), Sheeran (No. 7), George Strait (No. 8), Karol G (No. 9) and RBD (No. 10).

Total grosses for the Worldwide Top 100 Tours in 2023 were up 46% to a record-breaking $9.17 billion (2022’s total was $6.28 billion), and attendance was up 18.38% in total tickets sold to 70.1 million (2022’s total was 59.2 million). In 2023, the Top 100 North American Tours also set a gross record with $6.63 billion (2022’s total was $4.77 billion)

These stats and more can be viewed in the magazine’s 2023 Year-End Special Issue at pollstar.com.