Credit: John LanzaGuns N’ Roses fans have had quite an appetite for the band’s Not in This Lifetime… Tour, which according to Billboard‘s Boxscore archives had passed $475 million in gross sales by the time it wound down at the end of November.
The trek, which launched in April 2016 and marked the return of founding members Slash and Duff McKagan to the GN’R lineup, has now eclipsed Roger Waters‘ 2010-2013 The Wall Live Tour to become the fourth highest-grossing trek ever.
U2‘s 360° stadium tour, which ran from 2009 to 2011, is #1 on Billboard‘s list of most successful tours with $736 million in gross sales. The Rolling Stones‘ 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang trek is #2 with $558 million, while Coldplay‘s recently completed A Head Full of Dreams tour is #3 with $523 million.
Waters’ outing grossed $459 million.
Guns N’ Roses will add to their total when the Not in This Lifetime… Tour resumes with a lengthy European leg in June.
This past November, GN’R’s trek won the Top Tour and Top Draw prizes at the 2017 Billboard Touring Awards in recognition, respectively, of the fact that the band had the highest-grossing and most-attended tours during the period beginning October 1, 2016, and ending September 30, 2017.
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