The eye-watering fee Bruce Springsteen’s current tour has grossed
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have completed their most successful tour in their touring history, after 129 shows across two continents.
In total, the tour made almost $730 million over the two-year run, due to a peptic ulcer postponement that extended the tour from 2023 to 2025. According to Billboard, this more than doubles the $347 million earned in his previous top-grossing tour in 2012 and 2012, named ‘Wrecking Ball tour’.
In fact, ‘The Boss’ has smashed all of his own records. The trek sold 4.9 million tickets in total, averaging 37,900 tickets nightly and bringing in $5.7 million per show.
Springsteen did not have to hike prices unreasonably to do this, either. Ticket prices jumped 29 per cent from his previous E Street tour in 2017. In the context of the music industry at large, this is well below what he might have charged for an arena show as a legacy act.
These figures cement the tour in music history, as it is now one of the top ten highest-grossing tours of all time. Springsteen joins Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and U2 as a fellow musician who has grossed over $700 million on a single tour.
He is also now one of only five artists to reach $2.3 billion or above over the course of his entire touring career.
During his recent shows, Springsteen hit the headlines as he adamantly and defiantly delivered a three-minute monologue that did not change from night to night. His speech attacked Donald Trump and the dictatorship of his new administration; Trump retaliated for a time, but has not commented on the matter since his threats were left unheeded.
Along with this impressive success, Springsteen will soon be honoured in other ways: Jeremy Allen-White will play the star in an upcoming biopic. Deliver Me From Nowhere will be released in cinemas on October 24th, 2025.
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