IT ALL ADDS UP
ED SHEERAN RETURNS TO NO. 1, LEADING A SLEW OF EUROPEAN STADIUM RUNS THAT DOMINATE JUNE’S BOXSCORE RECAP
IT HAS BEEN THREE LONG YEARS, but Ed Sheeran is back atop Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart with a $60 million haul across 12 shows in June. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, his Mathematics Tour grossed $63.8 million and sold 750,000 tickets throughout the month.
After playing to a number of smaller-capacity crowds in late March and early April, Sheeran switched to stadiums across Ireland and the United Kingdom in late April and is up to an average of $4.8 million and 57,000 tickets each night. That’s up 8% and 10%, respectively, from the figures of his 2019 European leg of his record-breaking Divide tour.
Sheeran’s run is one of seven European arena/stadium treks to rank in the top 10 tours in June. He’s followed by Elton John, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Harry Styles,
Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe, Queen + Adam Lambert and Billie Eilish. After an almost exclusively North American-led fall and spring, international venues have returned to the Boxscore charts, leading Top Boxscores and three of the month’s five Top Venues charts.