Posted on: November 27, 2024, 08:29h.
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With “Weekends With Adele” and greater than a full 12 months of Sphere behind us, it’s time to create a brand new checklist of the highest-grossing Las Vegas residencies of all time.
9 of 10 of our statistics come from Billboard journal’s Boxscore charts. The outlier was “Weekends With Adele” itself, which required guesswork since her gross sales figures have been by no means reported to the revered music commerce.
In case you don’t see your favourite artist/residency on our checklist and also you’re pondering that they won’t have reported gross sales figures to Billboard both, we are able to let you know that figures have been reported by J-Lo’s “All I Have” ($101.9M), Cher’s “Cher” ($97.4M), George Strait’s “Strait to Vegas” ($90.4M), Usher’s “My Approach” ($83.6M), Rod Stewart’s “The Hits” ($74.1M), Bette Midler’s “The Showgirl Should Go On” ($71.8M), Aerosmith’s “Deuces Are Wild” ($58.4M), Silk Sonic’s “An Night With Silk Sonic” ($50.4M), Katy Perry’s “Play” ($46.4M), Backstreet Boys’ “Bigger Than Life” ($44.2M), Shania Twain’s “Nonetheless the One” ($43.6M), Cher’s “Basic Cher” ($42.9M), Donny & Marie’s “Donny & Marie” ($42.6M), Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire’s “Collectively in Vegas” ($35.1M) and Gwen Stefan’s “Only a Lady” ($28.1M) residencies.
They only didn’t make this new High 10.
10. Woman Gaga, “Enigma + Jazz & Piano,” Park MGM (2018-2024)
Gross: $110M
Tickets Offered: 377K
Exhibits: 72
Gross Per Present: $1.53M
Though she ranked tenth in commerce, Gaga was first in creativity. Her residency on the Dolby Stay Theater was distinctive for alternating between two distinct reveals. “Enigma” was an area live performance that includes her largest hits, whereas “Jazz & Piano” supplied stripped-down model of Gaga track alongside covers from the Nice American Songbook.
9. Bruno Mars, “Bruno Mars at Park MGM” (2016-2024)
Gross: $124.5M
Tickets Offered: 410K
Exhibits: 79
Gross Per Present: $1.58M
The “Uptown Funk” singer not solely proved his broad attraction by breaking the $100 million mark, but additionally that inventive residency titles will not be a factor that’s needed. Mars’ first Vegas residency was at The Chelsea on the Cosmopolitan, for 2 years starting in December 2013.
8. Elton John, “The Million Greenback Piano,” Caesars Palace (2011-2018)
Gross: $131M
Tickets Offered: 777K
Exhibits: 189
Gross Per Present: $693K
For the Rocket Man’s second (and, after his retirement, final) Las Vegas residency, his piano was embedded with 68 LED screens that generated video and lighting results. And he might have bought 131 of them along with his earnings.
7. Lifeless & Firm, “Lifeless Endlessly: Stay at Sphere” (2024)
Gross: $131.8M
Tickets Offered: 477K
Exhibits: 30
Gross Per Present: $4.39M
With solely two authentic members (singer/guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart) and a lift from heartthrob guitarist John Mayer, this residency proved not solely the lasting cult standing of the Grateful Lifeless, but additionally supplied the most effective use of the $2.3 billion venue’s 160K square-foot hi-def display up to now. It’s the shortest residency to make our rankings, with solely 30 reveals incomes a formidable, however not report, $4.39 million every.
6. Britney Spears, “Britney: Piece Of Me,” Planet Hollywood (2013-2017)
Gross: $137.7M
Tickets Offered: 916K
Exhibits: 248
Gross Per Present: $552K
Properly-received by critics and followers, this residency created a profitable comeback for the troubled “Poisonous” singer. It bought out the AXIS Theater so persistently, its authentic two-year run was prolonged a number of instances. The AXIS glided by the Zappos Theater from 2018 to 2023, the Bakkt Theater in 2023, and is now PH Stay.
5. Elton John, “The Crimson Piano,” Caesars Palace (2004-2009)
Gross: $166.4M
Tickets Offered: 982K
Exhibits: 247
Gross Per Present: $674K
Initially scheduled for 75 reveals over three years, John’s first Vegas residency — directed and designed by David La Chapelle — was additionally prolonged a number of instances resulting from standard demand.
4. Adele, “Weekends With Adele,” Caesars Palace (2022-2024)
Gross: ~$200M
Tickets Offered: ~420K
Exhibits: 100
Gross Per Present: ~$2M
Neither Stay Nation, Adele nor Caesars Leisure have reported official figures to Billboard on this large residency, which ended final weekend, so that is the one speculative rating on our checklist.
We based mostly it on this 2021 report from Billboard, which acknowledged that first 24 reveals of Adele’s initially scheduled residency — those she finally canceled — generated $50 million in ticket sales. (Billboard didn’t publish an identical report on gross sales of the rescheduled reveals.)
Although extrapolating the gross of 100 reveals from these authentic 24 might not show astonishingly correct, it’s in all probability not far off since Adele continued to promote out all performances all through her residency.
Adele was ready to take action effectively by tapping into large demand for the one 4,200 seats obtainable per present. As Billboard reported, tickets for the primary live shows began at $860 apiece for the entrance part of the Colosseum and $600 for the entrance of the higher balcony. A couple of dozen seats within the entrance three rows of the orchestra part have been priced at greater than $5K per ticket as a part of Ticketmaster’s platinum seating program.
As quickly as official “Weekends With Adele” figures get launched, in the event that they ever do, we’ll replace this text instantly.
3. U2, “U2: UV Achtung Child Stay at Sphere”(2023-2024)
Gross: $244.5M
Tickets Offered: 663K
Exhibits: 40
Gross Per Present: $6.1M
U2 managed the very best per-show gross on this at $6.1 million. (That’s $277,272 per track!) However probably the most record-breaking a part of the Irish superstars’ residency was their astronomical take-home pay. In trade for enjoying his guinea pig — and for reluctantly agreeing to carry out for the primary time with out founding drummer Larry Mullen Jr., who was recuperating from shoulder surgical procedure — Sphere proprietor James Dolan reportedly paid Bono’s boys an unheard-of 90% of the gate, plus a cool $10M to shoot its visuals.
2. Celine Dion, “Celine,” Caesars Palace (2011-2019)
Gross: $296M
Tickets Offered: 1.7M
Exhibits 427
Gross Per Present: $639K
1. Celine Dion, “A New Day…,” Caesars Palace (2003-2007)
Gross: $385M
Tickets: 2.8M
Exhibits 714
Gross Per Present: $539K
Celine takes each the No. 1 and 2 spots along with her two residencies at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which was constructed particularly for her. And should you convert their mixed $681 million box-office whole into as we speak’s {dollars} — utilizing the median factors of 2005 and 2016 — it will give her a seemingly unmatchable mixed take of $1 billion.
