Hot Tours: Coldplay Scores Massive Haul on World Tour

 

 

Coldplay clocks in at No. 1 on our latest ranking of top-grossing tours with a hefty box office total ($99.7 million) reported from the 2012 North American and European legs of the world tour supporting the album "Mylo Xyloto," the band's fifth studio set released last October. The tour launched that same month in Europe and continued through the end of the year, but did not resume in 2012 until mid-April with the kick off of the first North American leg.

 

Edmonton hosted the British rock band for its first tour date of the year with a performance on April 17 at the 16,000-seat arena, Rexall Place. Five more dates followed at arenas in Canada and the western U.S. before the tour leg wrapped in early May with a three-show stint at the Hollywood Bowl. All three performances at the Southern California amphitheater were sellouts with almost 50,000 tickets sold for concerts on May 1, 2 and 4.

 

Two weeks later the band headed back to Europe to begin a three-week sweep through six countries to play stadium shows in nine cities. The first event was on May 18 in Porto, Portugal with a sellout crowd of 52,457 in attendance at the city's football stadium, Estádio do Dragão. The band played sold out concerts at stadiums in Spain, France, Italy and Switzerland before returning to its home country on May 29 with a performance at Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England.

 

Next on the schedule was a three-show run in London at Emirates Stadium on June 1, 2 and 4 with sellout crowds on each night. With attendance totaling 173,596 for the trip of dates, and an overall gross of £9.3 million ($14.4 million US$), Coldplay joins Roger Waters, The Stone Roses, Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen as 2012 touring artists that have scored a gross of $10 million (US$) or more in a multi-show concert engagement at one venue.

 

The European trek wrapped following U.K. stadium concerts in Sunderland and Manchester as well as a headlining slot at the 95.8 Capital FM Summertime Ball at London's Wembley Stadium on June 9.

 

The North American summer leg began with two shows in Dallas at American Airlines Center on June 22 and 23 and wrapped with a two-show run at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center on August 10 and 11. During the seven-week tour leg through the U.S. and Canada, Coldplay played 15 arenas selling more than 413,000 tickets at 25 performances.

 

So far this year, in two North American legs and the first European leg, more than 1.2 million fans have attended the Mylo Xyloto Tour, generating the $99.7 million in worldwide ticket sales. The band is currently on the road in Europe through late-September and is set to play stadiums in New Zealand and Australia in November.

 

 

Total Gross

Show Dates

Show Venue/City (Shows/Sellouts)

Total Attendance (Capacity)

 

COLDPLAY

 

$99,746,651

April 17-Aug. 11

Rexall Place, Edmonton (1/0)

Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary (1/1)

Rogers Arena, Vancouver (2/0)

Rose Garden, Portland (1/1)

KeyArena, Seattle (1/0)

HP Pavilion, San Jose (2/2)

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles (3/3)

Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal (1/1)

Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid (1/1)

Stade Charles-Ehrmann, Nice (1/1)

Stadio Olimpico, Torino, Italy (1/1)

Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich (1/1)

Ricoh Arena, Coventry, U.K. (1/1)

Emirates Stadium, London (3/3)

Stadium of Light, Sunderland, U.K. (1/1)

Etihad Stadium, Manchester (2/2)

American Airlines Center, Dallas (2/2)

Toyota Center, Houston (2/2)

Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa (1/0)

American Airlines Arena, Miami (1/1)

Philips Arena, Atlanta (1/1)

Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte (1/1)

Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia (2/2)

Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. (2/2)

Air Canada Centre, Toronto (2/2)

Bell Centre, Montreal (2/2)

TD Garden, Boston (2/2)

Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Mich. (1/1)

Izod Center, East Rutherford, N.J. (2/2)

United Center, Chicago (2/2)

Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul (2/0)

1,201,994 (1,212,722)

 

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So 7 concerts weren't sold out but only 10728 tickets weren't sold. Nice job Coldplay! :nice:

Man, that's a lot of cash :wideeyed:

 

 

Well deserved! :thumbsup:

That's pretty awesome!!!

And it's without counting the current European leg of the tour, which includes other big sell outs like Paris!

This is awesome! : )

This is such wonderful news!! So happy for the guys!

($99.7 million)

 

 

($97.7 million) went to Xylobands so a good 2 million cleared... Good job Boy's :P "JK"

WooHoo!!

So 7 concerts weren't sold out but only 10728 tickets weren't sold. Nice job Coldplay! :nice:

 

Even that may be an overestimate. Often when these things are calculated they don't fully take into account seats that were never actually offered for sale due to production demands etc. There's also the issue of last minute blocks released for similar reasons which often don't sell because people are unaware they're available. This tour has been a huge step upward for Coldplay's already formidable live draw.

awesome! A great tour that deserves it!

Even that may be an overestimate. Often when these things are calculated they don't fully take into account seats that were never actually offered for sale due to production demands etc. There's also the issue of last minute blocks released for similar reasons which often don't sell because people are unaware they're available. This tour has been a huge step upward for Coldplay's already formidable live draw.

 

Yep, and the front row seats the band sets aside for the fans every show in the US. The numbers are amazing, and well deserved for the show they put on.

Whoo! I could've used these scores last week for my statistics project, but whatever :P

 

a neverending congratulations again to Coldplay and the Coldplay team... and to Coldplayers everwhere too for making these type of accomplishments possible! :D :D

wow, great :)

$99,746,651

this result is without last European tour!!! :o :o :o

That's gigantic !!! Well deserved !! :D :awesome: