Melbourne is the sixth largest show when you include both years. The show in Dublin was the largest on the two tours at 80,901 in attendance. This includes shows in Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Sao Paulo, and Pasadena. If you compare the numbers for both the 2017 and the 2019 dates, only five cities had shows bigger than the show in Melbourne. Melbourne, the biggest show on the list for gross sales, would have been the sixteenth show on the list if you look at gross sales for 20 combined.
This is 13,285 people more than the next biggest reported audience, which happened in Perth on this tour. The biggest audience at a single show was in Melbourne with 59,726 attending a single show in that city. Seoul, Auckland and Adelaide all brought in less gross sales on a per show basis than any show on the 2017 tour. It also has the lowest gross sales for any show if you include the 2017 tour as well.
Lowest gross sales on a per show basis is Adelaide for the 2019 tour. Manila has the second highest gross sales at $6.90 million, just behind the sales for Melbourne. Melbourne comes in with the highest gross total sales for a single show on the tour, at $6.91 million. If you look at a per show basis though, Singapore did not bring in the highest sales per show, with two cities bringing in more money at the gate. The city in which they had the lowest sales was Adelaide with a total of $2.5million at that show. Lets take a look at some of the data from the 2019 shows themselves.įor sales, U2 had the highest sales in Singapore this time out with a total of $12.4million at the shows there. The gross total sales for both tours, was $389.7million. If you combine the 20 numbers, U2 took the Joshua Tree tour out in front of a total audience of 3,279,712 people over 65 shows. The gross total sales for these shows, was $73.8million. The 2019 shows saw U2 play to a total audience of 566,576 people over 15 shows. Billboard does report all currency in US Dollars, so any references below are also in US Dollars. Billboard has now listed the 2019 numbers as part of their Box Scores, and we take a look at the numbers below. The tour was a continuation of the 2017 shows, using a similar stage and screen, and continuing to play the album in full. U2 played fifteen shows in November and December 2019 as part of The Joshua Tree Tour 2019. The numbers are in for U2’s shows in New Zealand, Australia and Asia.