Harry Styles makes top tours list as two-year run of gigs rakes in £500million

22 July 2023 , 19:09

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Harry Styles on stage (Image: Getty Images for Coachella)

Harry Styles’ life will never be As It Was after his Love on Tour shows pulled in close to half a billion pounds.

The 29-year-old, whose world tour ends on Saturday night at the RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia, Italy, has played 169 dates in the last 23 months.

And the five million fans who flocked to the sell-out shows helped the Adore You singer earn more than £460million, with income from his final few gigs still to be calculated.

It puts the former One Direction star fourth on the Billboard Boxscore chart of the Top 10 Tours of All Time – with Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Irish rockers U2 in the top three spots.

Sir Elton’s 330-date Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour earned him £730m, while Ed’s 258 shows on his Divide Tour brought in £603m. Harry’s tour success comes on the back of double-platinum Brit Awards and the Grammy-winning album, Harry’s House, which was the UK’s fastest selling album of 2022.

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Harry's tour has been a roaring success (Getty Images)

Harry also held both the No.1 album and single spots simultaneously in several countries worldwide.

Top Ten Tours of All Time:

1 - Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour (2018-20, 2022-23) 730m

2 - Ed Sheeran - The ÷ (Divide) Tour (2017-19) £603.5m

3 - U2 - U2 360° Tour (2009-11) £572m

4 - Harry Styles - Love on Tour (2021-present) £459m

5 - Guns N’ Roses - Not in This Lifetime... Tour (2016-19) £454m

6 - Coldplay - Music of the Spheres World Tour (2022-23) £436m

7 - The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Tour (2005-07) £434m

8 - The Rolling Stones - No Filter Tour (2017-19, 2021) £425m

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9 - Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams Tour (2016-17) £408m

10 - Roger Waters - The Wall Live (2010-13) £356m

Nicola Fahey