Bruce Springsteen Is Bigger Than Ever As His Latest Tour Earns Over $700 Million

It goes without saying that Bruce Springsteen is one of the most iconic and successful touring acts in history. So it’s noteworthy that more than 50 years deep into his career, his recent 2023-25 tour, which wrapped on July 3 in Italy, was his biggest ever, without qualification.

After 129 shows, the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour grossed $729.7 million and sold 4.9 million tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Any way you slice the data, it’s the biggest of his career.

At $729.7 million, this is the highest-grossing tour of Springsteen’s career, two times over. His previous best was the Wrecking Ball World Tour, which grossed $347 million in 2012-13. The Rising Tour (2002-03), The Magic Tour (2007-08) and The River Tour (2016-17) each grossed more than $200 million.

Perhaps it’s not shocking for a vital rock icon to outgross his earlier tours, considering the industry-wide surge in ticket prices, especially post-pandemic. But while Springsteen’s average price is up 29% ($149.30) from The River Tour ($115.52), that increase from 2016 to 2025 is well below the typical uptick for other arena and stadium acts, legacy or contemporary.

Beyond the market-level rise in demand, Springsteen sold more tickets than ever before. The 2023-25 tour closed with 4.9 million tickets, handily outdoing the Wrecking Ball World Tour’s 3.6 million by 37%. The Rising Tour is next, at 3.2 million. (Boxscore reporting formalized in the mid-late 1980s, and some of Springsteen’s tours in the ’70s and ’80s may be underreported.)

The 2023-25 tour is also Springsteen’s longest tour yet. With 129 shows over the course of nearly two and a half years, he beats the Wrecking Ball World Tour’s 125, The Rising Tour’s 104 and Magic Tour’s 100.

But Springsteen’s stamina did not make his recent triumph inevitable. On a nightly basis, he posted the best gross and sales of his career, at $5.7 million (The River Tour paced $3.4 million per show) and 37,900 tickets (The Rising Tour averaged 30,300) per show. Based on gross, attendance, and number of shows, in terms of pure volume and each night, these are the best Boxscore results of Springsteen’s career.

It’s not just a high mark among The Boss’s own touring history; it’s one of the biggest of all time. With reports for the trek’s final leg in Europe, The Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour is now one of the 10 highest grossing tours in history. It’s only the seventh to gross over $700 million, among others by Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and U2.

Springsteen and The E Street Band played four legs of shows in the United States and Canada, and three in Europe. Though he’s an American icon with deep associations with his home state of New Jersey, Europe delivered the lion’s share of the tour’s overall gross. The split of shows was relatively even (69 in Europe vs. 60 in North America), but the exclusive stadium routing in the former tipped the scales against the mix of stadiums and arenas stateside. Ultimately, the three European legs combined to $472.7 million, or 65% of the tour’s total earnings.

This is in keeping with Springsteen’s previous tours. Over his career, he’s grossed more than $1 billion in each continent, but slightly more in Europe ($1.1 billion vs. $1.07 billion) despite far fewer reported shows (283 vs. 695). He’s played stadiums there since the 2008 leg of Magic Tour, while he’s continued to include arenas in his North American routing.

Combining Springsteen’s solo tours with his work alongside the E Street Band, he has grossed nearly $2.3 billion from 22.6 million tickets sold across 1,028 shows, dating back to sparse reporting from 1976’s Born to Run Tour. He’s only the fifth artist to cross the $2 billion threshold.

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