December 16, 2025 • 6 mins
As year end content continues to unfold, we asked the question, who has sold the most concert tickets over the last 25 years. There's some classics, some favorites, and some completely surprising answers that might shock you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come hang out with us at Torchies tomorrow and for
us go from three to six. We'll go around the
sports here momentarily, talk about that little MAVs overtime loss
last night, that today game's coming up, and we'll cuss
the Cowboys at five.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But right now it's time for this. Give me that
news quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This sounds this sounds like some urgent and breaking news.
This sounds like the biggest story of the day. Probably is, guys.
I've had this graphic up for a while. I just
wanted to do this. This is the most popular touring
artist of the millennium. They've gone since two thousand and one.
They left two thousand out weirdly since two thousand and one,
ranked by the total you know, grossing total amount of
(00:41):
money here, but top twenty five touring artist Gay.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's a gross revenue Rev. All right, Rev.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And I would say if we were doing this, I
would say, no, actually, no, I can.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I can divide it this.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Way by total tickets sold, by total concerts ticket sold
over the last twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's great. This is better to do because inflation and such.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, so I would I would say bands that can
pretty much play anywhere they want to.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, for the most part, top twenty five, number one, Yes,
number one's got to be Tate, right, she's number five.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
If you look at Taylor Swift popular two eight and
nine is where it kind of started.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So she missed that first seven years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh right, right, I see what you're saying. So it's
gonna be somebody who's been playing the whole way. It's
been cold Play.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Cold Play's number one.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Wow, the most tickets sold of all bands since two
thousand and one is Coldplay?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is shocking? How rich is Chris Martin so rich? So
I'm assuming like legacy bands are on there, like The Stones,
although they don't probably don't tour that much, but when
they do, and they did, they did tour hard. They're
number twelve the Rolling Stones. Yes, it's Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's basically, you play for so long that you sell
so many tickets or get so many strikings.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Right. What about whatever in various incarnation of the Grateful Dead,
Dead in Company or whatever they call it. I don't
because they didn't do much. Okay, once he died, I
thought they kept going is Dead in Company? And well
they did over the last on Mayor and over the
last ten years, but not in what about the Eagles?
(02:17):
The Eagles seems like a good guess, Yeah, seventeen number
seventeen the Eagles. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And this would include bands who like have new members,
right so.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Because he can't have the same members the whole way.
So there's journey on there, No journey you two is
on there? You two is number two? Okay, number three.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you guys, I don't
fully understand this at all because he was not around
for the whole time. His popularity. I don't know a
single person who just loves this guy thing, but he's
very popular.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh oh, Joe Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He's also a guy who's got a basic name, and
he goes against my theory of like, your name's got
to be kind to cool if you're just going to
use your name as your artist. Whoa Seal not Seal?
He's got two names. He's got a basically normal name
that's not like that marketable, right, said Fred, Like even Taylor.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Swift is kind of like Swift, you can we can
make it work. So it's like Bill Smith.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Number three most tickets sold since dosen't one is ed Sheeran.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh, I get it. I mean he's here. Who likes him?
People who loves him? Who's that he's in town? We
got to go people that are younger than us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's got a lot of catchy songs, and he's fun
to watch because he does the loop thing with the
guitars and all the vocals and stuff. He kind of
produces it live on stage.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But more tickets than Taylor. What about is that is shock? Yeah?
What about uh? Timberlake?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What about uh one Direction or Harry Styles?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No? Let me jam through some of these Ye Depeche
Modes twenty five, Guys Still Wild, Billy Idols twenty four,
God and the Late Toby Keith twenty three, Paul McCartney's
twenty two Moving Ahead, Iron Maidens nineteen, Let's Go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Six hundred and twenty shows since two thousand and one
Iron Maiden? How many did you go? See?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You didn't?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're a real fan. I haven't seen him in the
New millennium. I haven't seen him since Junior High.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Fish Is eighteen, n Roses sixteen, Beyonce thirteen, Oh Yeah,
Top Ten's Elton John, Oh Billy Joel Billy Joe's not
on the list. Oh no, he's number twenty four. Okay,
he's number twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Bon Jovi nine job Ben Metallica is a Metallica? Did
you put an R on the end? So I have
all fun?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Kenny Chesney Number seven, Barefoot Nation, you're just goofing. Number
six Bruce.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Springsteen, the movie has still haven't. I don't know a
person who won't saw that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And we'll watch it tonight. Number five, Table Shift, number four,
the Dave Matthews ban Let's go. Number four, most most
tickets sold.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
The problem is it's the same about twenty thousand people
buying all the tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's not they toured it with him. I have a
Q for skin.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's the main difference between Dave Matthews and that band
that sings sings, Hey now you're an all Star? They're similar,
different question, He's not qualify Wait wait, wait, hold on,
that's not Dave Matthews.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It sings that I think that I think they sing
and keep y'all hands. You all say, I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
and then they also sing the World's going, And that's
why they're so popular. They're the most popular at touring. Yeah,
because of all the Shrek songs they had and all
(05:34):
the frats, yes, all the turn you guys go. They
sing that song, Oh I want to be with you.
It's like you guys were in the same pants for
three days straight. Actually I do man jokes. What are
you talking about? Many jokes. We have greatest hits like Crash.
You get up on stage and play them, little boys,
(05:58):
show your world.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Man dream that there was a Dave Matthews tribute band
playing roller Towel.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I was like, you guys like made me be there.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't really want to.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're there by yourself in the lawn in a lawn chair. No, dude,
it was packed cause okay, okay, So in the dream,
you guys are coming to me and being like, wow, okay,
I can't believe how many people are hear for this
I heard. I was like, yeah, it's kind of older people.
I heard. The Dave Matthews cover ban was right outside
that top twenty five for tickets sold. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They have a They float a blimp over the show.
It looks like a bus and they drop fake urine
on everyone that's looking part all right, all right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We go around the Sports the maps with an OT
loss last night, we'll break it on down with Jeff
skin Wade next
Come hang out with us at Torchies tomorrow and for
us go from three to six. We'll go around the
sports here momentarily, talk about that little MAVs overtime loss
last night, that today game's coming up, and we'll cuss
the Cowboys at five.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But right now it's time for this. Give me that
news quickie.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This sounds this sounds like some urgent and breaking news.
This sounds like the biggest story of the day. Probably is, guys.
I've had this graphic up for a while. I just
wanted to do this. This is the most popular touring
artist of the millennium. They've gone since two thousand and one.
They left two thousand out weirdly since two thousand and one,
ranked by the total you know, grossing total amount of
(00:41):
money here, but top twenty five touring artist Gay.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's a gross revenue Rev. All right, Rev.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And I would say if we were doing this, I
would say, no, actually, no, I can.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I can divide it this.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Way by total tickets sold, by total concerts ticket sold
over the last twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's great. This is better to do because inflation and such.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, so I would I would say bands that can
pretty much play anywhere they want to.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, for the most part, top twenty five, number one, Yes,
number one's got to be Tate, right, she's number five.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
If you look at Taylor Swift popular two eight and
nine is where it kind of started.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So she missed that first seven years.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh right, right, I see what you're saying. So it's
gonna be somebody who's been playing the whole way. It's
been cold Play.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Cold Play's number one.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Wow, the most tickets sold of all bands since two
thousand and one is Coldplay?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is shocking? How rich is Chris Martin so rich? So
I'm assuming like legacy bands are on there, like The Stones,
although they don't probably don't tour that much, but when
they do, and they did, they did tour hard. They're
number twelve the Rolling Stones. Yes, it's Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's basically, you play for so long that you sell
so many tickets or get so many strikings.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Right. What about whatever in various incarnation of the Grateful Dead,
Dead in Company or whatever they call it. I don't
because they didn't do much. Okay, once he died, I
thought they kept going is Dead in Company? And well
they did over the last on Mayor and over the
last ten years, but not in what about the Eagles?
(02:17):
The Eagles seems like a good guess, Yeah, seventeen number
seventeen the Eagles. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And this would include bands who like have new members,
right so.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Because he can't have the same members the whole way.
So there's journey on there, No journey you two is
on there? You two is number two? Okay, number three.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you guys, I don't
fully understand this at all because he was not around
for the whole time. His popularity. I don't know a
single person who just loves this guy thing, but he's
very popular.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Uh oh, Joe Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He's also a guy who's got a basic name, and
he goes against my theory of like, your name's got
to be kind to cool if you're just going to
use your name as your artist. Whoa Seal not Seal?
He's got two names. He's got a basically normal name
that's not like that marketable, right, said Fred, Like even Taylor.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Swift is kind of like Swift, you can we can
make it work. So it's like Bill Smith.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Number three most tickets sold since dosen't one is ed Sheeran.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh, I get it. I mean he's here. Who likes him?
People who loves him? Who's that he's in town? We
got to go people that are younger than us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
He's got a lot of catchy songs, and he's fun
to watch because he does the loop thing with the
guitars and all the vocals and stuff. He kind of
produces it live on stage.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But more tickets than Taylor. What about is that is shock? Yeah?
What about uh? Timberlake?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What about uh one Direction or Harry Styles?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No? Let me jam through some of these Ye Depeche
Modes twenty five, Guys Still Wild, Billy Idols twenty four,
God and the Late Toby Keith twenty three, Paul McCartney's
twenty two Moving Ahead, Iron Maidens nineteen, Let's Go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Six hundred and twenty shows since two thousand and one
Iron Maiden? How many did you go? See?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You didn't?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're a real fan. I haven't seen him in the
New millennium. I haven't seen him since Junior High.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Fish Is eighteen, n Roses sixteen, Beyonce thirteen, Oh Yeah,
Top Ten's Elton John, Oh Billy Joel Billy Joe's not
on the list. Oh no, he's number twenty four. Okay,
he's number twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Bon Jovi nine job Ben Metallica is a Metallica? Did
you put an R on the end? So I have
all fun?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Kenny Chesney Number seven, Barefoot Nation, you're just goofing. Number
six Bruce.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Springsteen, the movie has still haven't. I don't know a
person who won't saw that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And we'll watch it tonight. Number five, Table Shift, number four,
the Dave Matthews ban Let's go. Number four, most most
tickets sold.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
The problem is it's the same about twenty thousand people
buying all the tickets.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's not they toured it with him. I have a
Q for skin.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's the main difference between Dave Matthews and that band
that sings sings, Hey now you're an all Star? They're similar,
different question, He's not qualify Wait wait, wait, hold on,
that's not Dave Matthews.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It sings that I think that I think they sing
and keep y'all hands. You all say, I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
and then they also sing the World's going, And that's
why they're so popular. They're the most popular at touring. Yeah,
because of all the Shrek songs they had and all
(05:34):
the frats, yes, all the turn you guys go. They
sing that song, Oh I want to be with you.
It's like you guys were in the same pants for
three days straight. Actually I do man jokes. What are
you talking about? Many jokes. We have greatest hits like Crash.
You get up on stage and play them, little boys,
(05:58):
show your world.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Man dream that there was a Dave Matthews tribute band
playing roller Towel.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I was like, you guys like made me be there.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't really want to.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You're there by yourself in the lawn in a lawn chair. No, dude,
it was packed cause okay, okay, So in the dream,
you guys are coming to me and being like, wow, okay,
I can't believe how many people are hear for this
I heard. I was like, yeah, it's kind of older people.
I heard. The Dave Matthews cover ban was right outside
that top twenty five for tickets sold. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They have a They float a blimp over the show.
It looks like a bus and they drop fake urine
on everyone that's looking part all right, all right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Coming up next?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We go around the Sports the maps with an OT
loss last night, we'll break it on down with Jeff
skin Wade next
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