Highest attendance for a music tour

Some 13.2 million tickets have been sold for Coldplay’s (UK) Music of the Spheres World Tour, which started on 18 March 2022 and paused on 12 September 2025 (with plans to continue in 2027). By just the end of 2024, Spheres had cemented its place as the second-highest-grossing tour of all time after just 175 of its scheduled 225 dates ($1,145,056,215, or £904,986,019), and while the band's mammoth excursion still trails Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour ($2,077,618,725, or £1,629,875,269) in terms of overall gross, Spheres’ total attendance exceeds Eras’ final head count of 10,168,008.

The Music of the Spheres World Tour kicked off with two shows witnessed by 87,000 fans at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica, on 18–19 March 2022. Other stops to date have included Mexico, USA, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Ireland, Australia and, multiple shows on home soil at Wembley Stadium in London, UK.

In an era of big-budget, fan-flocking stadium tours, Coldplay created more history on the weekend of 25–26 January 2025 when they played in front of 111,581 and 111,989 fans – the largest-ever stadium shows of the 21st century – at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Ed Sheeran’s (UK) ÷ [Divide] Tour – the highest-attended music tour before Swift’s Eras and Coldplay’s Spheres hit the road – generated a total attendance of 8.9 million at the 260 shows he performed between 16 March 2017 and 26 August 2019.