Is it really summer without the Rolling Stones on tour? The rock icons have toured North America, Europe, or both, every summer but three of the last 12 years, consistently topping the charts and setting records. After a hiatus in 2023, the Stones returned for the Hackney Diamonds tour, playing 18 shows in 15 cities across the US and Canada from late April to mid-July. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the trip grossed $235 million and sold 848,000 tickets.
The tour was in support of the band Hackney Diamonds album, released in October 2023. The set marked the band's first album of original material since 2005 A bigger explosion. Hackney Diamonds debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 – the group's highest-charting album to date Bang It also reached No.3 – and extended the band's record for most top 10s on the chart.
The Hackney Diamonds tour kicked off at Houston's NRG Stadium on April 28, 2024, bringing the Stones to more than 40,000 fans. By the time the band wrapped up at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on July 17, he had notched the highest-grossing summer of his career. Sixty, the 2022 jaunt, earned $120.8 million, and the longest of the four No Filter tour runs brought in $177.8 million in 2019. While they've made more money from multi-year runs, Mick Jagger & co. they have never earned more than $200 million in a single season.
The Stones' 2024 route was highlighted by double-headers in East Rutherford, NJ (17 miles outside New York), Chicago and Inglewood, California (11 miles from downtown Los Angeles). Each of those engagements grossed more than $20 million, topped by the New Jersey shows at MetLife Stadium on May 23 and 26, which grossed a combined $29.2 million and sold 105,000 tickets.
These MetLife dates mark a career high, setting the highest gross in the Stones' 35-year Boxscore history. Inglewood and Chicago dates also fall in the top 10, while Denver, Foxborough, Las Vegas and Philadelphia are in the band's all-time top 20, all between $15-16 million.
Every purchase on the tour grossed eight figures, with the sole exception of Glendale, Ariz., whose May 7 State Farm Stadium show grossed $8.4 million and sold 44,800 tickets.
The Hackney Diamonds tour sets a new high for the Rolling Stones and pushes the band further into uncharted Boxscore territory. This is her sixth tour to gross more than $200 million and 10th to gross more than $100 million. Both tallies are Boxscore records, extending their lead for most nine-figure tours, now three $100 million tours away from the group's closest competitors.
Dated from a report for two shows at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium on Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1989, The Rolling Stones grossed $2.873 billion and sold 28.9 million tickets.
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