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\n\tIt goes without saying that Bruce Springsteen<\/a> is one of the most iconic and successful touring acts in history. So it\u2019s noteworthy that more than 50 years deep into his career, his recent 2023-25 tour, which wrapped on July 3 in Italy, was his biggest ever, without qualification.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter 129 shows, the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour grossed $729.7 million and sold 4.9 million tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Any way you slice the data, it\u2019s the biggest of his career.<\/p>\n \n\tAt $729.7 million, this is the highest-grossing tour of Springsteen\u2019s career, two times over. His previous best was the Wrecking Ball World Tour, which grossed $347 million in 2012-13. The Rising Tour (2002-03), The Magic Tour (2007-08) and The River Tour (2016-17) each grossed more than $200 million.<\/p>\n \n\tPerhaps it\u2019s not shocking for a vital rock icon to outgross his earlier tours, considering the industry-wide surge in ticket prices, especially post-pandemic. But while Springsteen\u2019s average price is up 29% ($149.30) from The River Tour ($115.52), that increase from 2016 to 2025 is well below the typical uptick for other arena and stadium acts, legacy or contemporary.<\/p>\n \n\tBeyond the market-level rise in demand, Springsteen sold more tickets than ever before. The 2023-25 tour closed with 4.9 million tickets, handily outdoing the Wrecking Ball World Tour\u2019s 3.6 million by 37%. The Rising Tour is next, at 3.2 million. (Boxscore reporting formalized in the mid-late 1980s, and some of Springsteen\u2019s tours in the \u201970s and \u201980s may be underreported.) <\/p>\n \n\tThe 2023-25 tour is also Springsteen\u2019s longest tour yet. With 129 shows over the course of nearly two and a half years, he beats the Wrecking Ball World Tour\u2019s 125, The Rising Tour\u2019s 104 and Magic Tour\u2019s 100.<\/p>\n \n\tBut Springsteen\u2019s stamina did not make his recent triumph inevitable. On a nightly basis, he posted the best gross and sales of his career, at $5.7 million (The River Tour paced $3.4 million per show) and 37,900 tickets (The Rising Tour averaged 30,300) per show. Based on gross, attendance, and number of shows, in terms of pure volume and each night, these are the best Boxscore results of Springsteen\u2019s career.<\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s not just a high mark among The Boss\u2019s own touring history; it\u2019s one of the biggest of all time. With reports for the trek\u2019s final leg in Europe, The Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour is now one of the 10 highest grossing tours in history. It\u2019s only the seventh to gross over $700 million, among others by Coldplay<\/a>, Ed Sheeran<\/a>, Taylor Swift<\/a> and U2<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tSpringsteen and The E Street Band played four legs of shows in the United States and Canada, and three in Europe. Though he\u2019s an American icon with deep associations with his home state of New Jersey, Europe delivered the lion\u2019s share of the tour\u2019s overall gross. The split of shows was relatively even (69 in Europe vs. 60 in North America), but the exclusive stadium routing in the former tipped the scales against the mix of stadiums and arenas stateside. Ultimately, the three European legs combined to $472.7 million, or 65% of the tour\u2019s total earnings.<\/p>\n \n\tThis is in keeping with Springsteen\u2019s previous tours. Over his career, he\u2019s grossed more than $1 billion in each continent, but slightly more in Europe ($1.1 billion vs. $1.07 billion) despite far fewer reported shows (283 vs. 695). He\u2019s played stadiums there since the 2008 leg of Magic Tour, while he\u2019s continued to include arenas in his North American routing.<\/p>\n \n\tCombining Springsteen\u2019s solo tours with his work alongside the E Street Band, he has grossed nearly $2.3 billion from 22.6 million tickets sold across 1,028 shows, dating back to sparse reporting from 1976\u2019s Born to Run Tour. He\u2019s only the fifth artist to cross the $2 billion threshold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n