Elton John earned eye-watering sum every SECOND on farewell tour as list of highest grossing concerts ever is revealed
SIR ELTON JOHN’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is the highest grossing of all time, making a whopping £269 per second.
The 330-show, five-year tour, which wrapped up this month, grossed £720.11million, which is the equivalent to £2.18million per show or about £16,000 a minute.
That figure doesn’t include his earnings from headlining Glastonbury last month, where the crowd was estimated at 120,000.
About six million people are believed to have seen Elton’s tour shows.
The hard-working superstar smashed the record held by his close friend Ed Sheeran for his Divide Tour – by a staggering £90million.
But Ed could soon take over once again, given he has repeatedly extended his current Mathematics gigs, which have been going since April last year.
Harry Styles’ Love On Tour is also proving incredibly popular and is already the fourth highest-grossing series of live shows of all time, and they are still going.
The figures were revealed by Billboard mag and make impressive reading for acts from the UK and Ireland as they hold nine out of the ten spots in the list.
But with global tours from Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Metallica on the horizon, I imagine this rundown will look very different in a couple of years’ time.
Last month at Glastonbury, viewing figures had gone stratospheric by the time a flourish of fireworks accompanied his anthemic final song Rocket Man.
Speaking to the huge crowd and the 7.7 million watching at home — the highest in Glasto history — Elton said: “It’s a very special and emotional night for me because it might be my last show ever in England, so I’d better play well and I’d better entertain you.”