Here’s a list of the top ten acts who charged the highest average ticket prices in 2024:
- U2 — £287
- Garth Brooks — £285
- Lady Gaga — £252
- The Eagles — £239
- Bad Bunny — £228
- George Strait — £227
- The Rolling Stones — £226
- Dead And Co — £225
- Los Bukis — £210
- Sting and Billy Joel — £191
And in case you were wondering, Taylor Swift came in 17th, with an average ticket price of £163.
I wouldn’t pay a single dollar to see any of them.
I have a couple of Eagles albums (Hotel California and The Long Run), and one Rolling Stones (Greatest Hits Vol 2), and not a single album of all the rest.
I have yet to listen all the way through a U2 album, but I did quite enjoy a couple of The Police ones (but never bothered to buy any).
And I’ve never even heard of Bad Bunny and Los Bukis.
Um, why are the prices listed in £ and not in $ ? I don’t do conversions from weight in sterling to American dollars… : D
British report. What, you can’t divide by .73 to get to dollars?
Same here as to albums owned. My wife has a Billy Joel album. We did pay a pretty penny to see Rammstein in concert, though they weren’t great seats, and nowhere near the feuerzone. They’re a German industrial metal band who put on one hell of a show, and though they sing exclusively in German, they’ve got a very large international following. Engel was the song I first heard that got me hooked. My wife says we will go again when they next do an American tour, so….