The Midyear Boxscore Report Shows Growth — But It Has Finally Slowed Down – Billboard

At midyear, business is good. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the 50 biggest tours of the first half of the chart year collectively earned more than $2.7 billion and sold 20.7 million tickets. Compared to last year’s first half, those figures are up — not with the velocity of the supercharged, early post-pandemic standard, but with single-digit percentage gains that show promise as the business heads into the prime of stadium season. Billboard’s midyear Boxscore charts are based on reported shows between Oct. 1, 2025, and March 31, and ranked by cumulative gross. International grosses are converted to USD. Related Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny top the midyear listing — with the former securing the top spot in a photo finish. Gaga leads Bunny by a margin of less than 3%, and only overtook him in the final week of the tracking period. Both acts posted stunning grosses for such a short span of time. Gaga’s The Mayhem Ball is the highest-grossing tour at midyear, with $236.2 million grossed — the highest midyear gross in Boxscore history (dating to 1991), outpacing U2’s Sphere stint ($231.6 million) from two years ago. U2 got there by brute force, charging an
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