In Green Day's 12 shows in September — 11 in stadiums, plus an amphitheater show in Austin, Texas — the band sold 415,000 tickets at an average ticket price of $114.71, grossing $47.5 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That puts The Saviors tour of California at No. 1 Bulletin boardmonthly Top Tours ranking.
The Saviors tour kicked off in June with $33.8 million in Europe, before crossing the Atlantic for a 26-city tour of the United States and Canada. Although Green Day had packed stages late on the 2004-05 American Idiot World tour and then fully committed to venues with Fall Out Boy and Weezer on the 2021-22 Hella Mega tour, this marks the band's first solo foray into playing primarily stages. .
The Saviors tour takes its name from Green Day's 14th studio album. The set debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 earlier this year and spawned “Dilemma,” which spent eight weeks atop Alternative Airplay. However, the trip helped improve the band's appeal by returning to two of their landmark albums in celebration of their 30th anniversary Dookie and its 20th anniversary American Idiot playing both LPs in full every night.
In September, Green Day hit a record high for their entire North American leg, taking in $5.7 million and 47,800 tickets at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. This is one of three entries for the band on Top Boxscores, at No. 24. Dates at San Francisco's Oracle Park and San Diego's Petco Park follow at Nos. 27 and 29, respectively.
It is unusual for an act to be No. 1 on the top tours without a similarly high position on Top Boxscores. Throughout 2024, the top-grossing tour has always had at least one entry in the Top Boxscores top 10, with the same act dominating both charts in five of the right months before September.
Furthermore, in its 51 editions Bulletin boardIn his monthly Boxscore charts since February 2019, the No. 1 Top Tours artist has been in the Top Boxscore top 10 43 times. Of the eight cases where they did not overlap, four were from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra during its annual takeover in December. This group regularly rules the top tours without impacting the Top Boxscores, amassing their massive monthly totals by playing multiple shows a day, aided by two coast-to-coast tour sets.
Although there is only one iteration of Green Day responsible for September's victory, the strategy is similar. The punk rock icons have their biggest tour of the month by volume, playing 12 stadium shows between September 1st and 28th. The acts driving the Top Boxscores – Coldplay, Metallica, Bruno Mars – all had brilliant multi-night engagements in international territories, but weren't touring consistently throughout the month.
Timing also helps. In August, Green Day's $47.5 million in earnings would trail the entire top five, led by Zac Bryan over $90 million and Coldplay over $80 million. The former took off in September and the latter completed its European leg on September 2nd, paving a path for Billie Joe & co. to claim their first monthly win.
However, the solo shows on The Saviors tour mark the biggest story of Green Day's career. While the SoFi Stadium shows were the biggest of the North American leg, a June 29 show at London's Wembley Stadium ($7.9 million, 76,000 tickets) topped the entire tour. It was also the highest-grossing and most-attended night in the band's entire reported Boxscore history.
Additionally, the 25 highest-grossing Green Day concerts come from this year's tour. In total, The Saviors tour grossed $132.4 million and sold 1.2 million tickets, easily ending up as the highest-grossing and best-selling tour ever.
Right behind Green Day on Top Tours are two of the biggest R&B acts on the road. Bruno Mars is No. 2 with $43.8 million and Usher is No. 3 with $36 million. The former played in Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan (plus a show in Las Vegas). Three shows at Jakarta's Beach City International Stadium account for nearly half of Aris' total monthly ticket gross, bringing in $21.5 million from 142,000 tickets.
Notably, Aris isn't technically on tour, but is playing one-off engagements around his ongoing residency at Las Vegas' Dolby Live. His last trip was the 24K Magic World tour, which grossed $396.1 million and sold 3.6 million tickets in 2017-18. His current stint in Vegas is among the top 10 home runs in Boxscore history, now up to $138.8 million.
Usher, on the other hand, is on his first proper tour since 2015 after closing his own Vegas residency late last year. Usher: Past Present Future opened in August, averaging $2.3 million per show in September. His biggest stop so far was a four-night run at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, which grossed $10.2 million and sold 58,000 tickets.
Rock tours flood the rest of the top 10, with Metallica, Jeff Lynne's ELO and Pearl Jam following at Nos. 4-5 and 8, respectively. Coldplay, Twenty One Pilots and the Eagles line up consecutively just outside the top 10.
While Green Day tops the tour charts while missing the Boxscore top 10, Coldplay do the opposite, at No. 1 on the latter chart and No. 11 on the former. Coldplay only had two shows in September, but they made them count. The British quartet played four dates in Croke Park, Dublin – two on August 29-30, which counted towards the August chart, and two on September 1-2. The September dates grossed $24.8 million and sold 165,000 tickets.
Further down in Top Boxscores, Sebastian Maniscalco grossed $10.7 million over five nights at Madison Square Garden, earning No. 8. It's the highest-grossing show for a comedian in Boxscore history. The number of acts who can play one night in an arena is small, so consider Maniscalco one of the very few who could sell out five.
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