What most fans suspected is now official: Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour is officially the highest-grossing tour in U.S. history. And, when it comes to touring, no other artist comes close to her success over the past decade.
The previous record for the highest-grossing tour was held by The Rolling Stones’ 2005-07 A Bigger Bang Tour, which played 70 shows to Swift’s 38.
Swift previously held the highest-grossing domestic tour for a woman: her The 1989 World Tour’s U.S. take was $181.5 million. FORBES recently named Swift the second-highest-paid Woman in Music for 2018, with an estimated $80 million in pre-tax earning during the June 2017 – June 2018 scoring period. That put her just below Katy Perry (with an estimated $83 million, thanks in large part to her $20 million American Idol contract) and Beyonce ($60 million). Swift will almost certainly claim the top spot for 2019 thanks to the majority of the tour dates falling in the 2019 scoring period.
Per Billboard, Swift has grossed significantly more than any other artist in the past decade. Since Swift’s first headlining tour — 2009’s The Fearless Tour — Swift has grossed $687.7 million in the U.S. That’s $140 million more than the next closest act, Kenny Chesney ($547.7 million). U2 ($470.1 million) and Luke Bryan ($350.8 million) take the third and fourth spots during the same period.