Roger Waters’ three-year world tour of “The Wall” has broken Billboard’s Boxscore record for a solo act.
The tour took in $459 million over the course of 219 performances, breaking the previous record of $407 million set by Madonna on her 2008-09 Sweet and Sticky Tour.
Waters now holds third place for highest-grossing tour of all time, solo or group act. U2 is at number one with $736 million for its 360° tour in 2009-2011. The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang tour grossed $558 million from 2005-2007.
Waters launched “The Wall” revival in September 2010 playing six legs in North and South America, Europe and Australia/New Zealand over three years.
Of course, you’d think that pretty much any big-name star could make similar money IF they toured for THREE straight years involving almost 220 shows. Do they have #s that show how much he made per show, or per year? Did those break records?
With that said, I did see two of these shows. And they were INCREDIBLE!! One of the best that I’ve seen. And saying this, I can only assume he probably spent almost the same amount of money putting on the show in each of these 219 performances as he took in. Anybody know how much actual profit he made from this tour?
If there is any record that he did truly break, it was stamina. Let me see Madonna tour for 3 years straight!! 🙂
A fabulous production of which I saw it once in Sydney and once in Dublin (last month)! I wonder how much Roger got to pocket of the gross : I’m sure he’s nowhere near being destitute!!!