But when the tour ended – the same way it began, with two sold-out shows at Argentina’s Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, an hour outside of Buenos Aires – the band’s team was already looking ahead. Coldplay’s Singaporean showing was the fourth-highest gross total of its career, per Pollstar Boxoffice data, and mirrored successes across the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Oceania.
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That figure stems largely from the band’s “A Head Full Of Dreams Tour,” a globe-trotting, eight-leg stadium trek that grossed more than half a billion dollars from March 2016 to November 2017 and stands as one of the most lucrative and acclaimed tours ever. 8 on Pollstar ’s Top Touring Artists of the Decade, grossing $731.8 million in the 2010s and occupying rarefied touring air alongside pop stars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift and rock legends like The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. Such is life for Coldplay, which ranked No. “We had the promoter calling, going, ‘Can we do more? I want to do another show,’” recalls X-ray Touring agent Josh Javor, who has represented Coldplay outside of the U.S.
The British band sold out the stadium twice over, moving 102,508 tickets for a total gross of $12.46 million – still the venue’s gross record. Since the country’s National Stadium opened in 2014, only 11 artists from outside Asia have played there – and, when Coldplay arrived for shows on March 31 and April 1, 2017, no act had ever performed more than one show at the venue.īut Coldplay blazes trails wherever it goes.
Singapore isn’t exactly a global touring fixture. Here, frontman Chris Martin performs in Sydney, Australia, on December 13, 2016. Mark Metcalfe / WireImage – A Grand OpeningĬoldplay, which will play the grand opening of Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena later this month, appears on the cover of this week’s Pollstar.
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