U2s mammoth 360 tour will set a new world record tonight, becoming the highest grossing tour in history.
Tonight’s show (Sunday, 10 April, 2011) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will see the band top $558 million gross for one tour, with the record current held by The Rolling Stones with their ’05 - ’07 ‘A Bigger Bang’ tour.
They also have beaten The Rolling Stones record of the highest attendance, which was set by their ‘Voodoo Lounge’ tour in ’94 - ’95 with 6.4 million tickets. U2’s tour has sold a whopping 7 million tickets to 110 shows.
U2’s manager Paul McGuiness told Billboard that “the biggest tour ever record is something we’re very proud of having set, and to set it with a further 20-plus shows to go on the tour is kind of mind-blowing. It means that it’s a record that will probably never be outstripped.”
The band’s current tour features “the only stage with a full lightning protection system”, set designer Willie Williams told Undercover when the show made it to Australia late last year.
If you haven’t seen the show yet, you can catch it at any of the following shows:
APRIL
10 - Estadio Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 - Estadio Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
MAY
11 - Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
14 - Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
15 - Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico
21 - Invesco Field, Denver, CO, USA
24 - Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
29 - CANAD Inns Stadium, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
JUNE
1 - Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Canada
4 - Qwest Field, Seattle, WA, USA
7 - Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA, USA
17 - Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA, USA
18 - Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA, USA
22 - M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, MD, USA
26 - Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI, USA
29 - Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL, USA
JULY
2 - Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN, USA
5 - Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, USA
8 - Montreal Hippodrome, Montreal, QC, Canada
9 - Montreal Hippodrome, Montreal, QC, Canada
11 - Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
14 - Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA, USA
17 - Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO, USA
20 - New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
23 - TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, USA
26 - Heinz Field, Pittsburg, PA, USA
30 - Magnetic Hill Music Festival, Moncton, NB, Canada
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