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….
My son earned his living for a while playing piano and singing in a bar, in a dueling pianos type of gig.
Since they played requests, and since Elton John and Billy Joel were big money-earners for him, he dedicated himself one summer to learning every Billy Joel album.
He’s seen Billy Joel, Elgon John, and Paul McCartney live. His profession explains that, because otherwise you wouldn’t expect someone born in 1988 to be a fan.
Alan Jackson wanted about $300 for nosebleed seats on his farewell tour. That’s a hard no.
I’ve seen John Fogerty twice and never paid more than $125 a ticket. I Think I might have paid closer to $75. It’s the processing fees that are just absurd.
isn’t this the free market at work? you don’t have to spend your money on these performers if you don’t want to.
I don’t want to, and I don’t.
I remember concerts in the 70’s with 2 or 3 major bands with ticket costs of $10 or less. (REO Speedwagon & .38 Special or Head East & J. Geils Band for example)
My wife and I paid $200 each for RUSH tickets 15 years ago and the seats were so far back Geddy, Alex and Neil were about 1/4″ tall. Oh yeah, every asshole and his brother was there making it unbearable for those of us wanting to see the performance. Never again.
I think the average price for a concert ticket at the Spectrum in Philly was $9.00
I know typically there were two or three bands for each performance.
Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop and The Marshall Tucker band. I think one was Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Outlaws. I’m pretty sure one was Linda Ronstadt and maybe Karla Bonoff with my girlfriend, now wife.
Of course it was the 1970’s . And the old saying is if you remember the 70’s you don’t remember the 70’s.
Maybe George Strait from the list above, but at those prices they can go to hell. With the wife, and the cost of getting to the venue I’m not plunking down half a house payment to listen to anyone live.
I can’t think of anything or anybody that I would pay that much money to just see, at a distance, and/or hear the sound(s) it makes.
I love SOME music but IMHO most, if not all, of the so called music
of the last few decades is simply low grade noise.
I saw ELO in their final tour in November in DC. Somewhere around $450 for two tickets, but they were prime seats with limited backstage access after the show. Just long enough that I did get to say hello and thanks to Jeff Lynne and I think Rosie Langley winked at me. Maybe she was holding back a sneeze, but I’m sure it was a wink.
That’s probably the last concert I’ll be attending. I’d go see Blackberry Smoke again, but not in a big arena.