The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrapped their multi-year, multi-continent tour with the largest enterprise of their multi-decade profession. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Unlimited Love Tour offered 3.4 million tickets over 86 reveals.
Among rock excursions, it finishes because the third best-selling trek this decade, solely behind Coldplay?s Music of the Spheres World Tour and Elton John?s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.
Though not eligible for Boxscore reporting, the Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out this touring cycle with a efficiency tonight (Aug. 11) on the LA28 handover celebration on the Closing Ceremony of 2024 Olympics, the place Paris passes the torch to the Chili Peppers? hometown of Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Boxscore totals solely embody grosses for ticketed headline reveals, whereas the Olympics efficiency is an element of a bigger televised occasion.
The Unlimited Love Tour supported its namesake album, which was launched in April 2022, in addition to Return of the Dream Canteen, which adopted in October of that yr. Both units led the Top Rock Albums chart, and the previous topped the all-genre Billboard 200.
The Unlimited Love Tour kicked off on June 4, 2022 with a efficiency at Estadio de La Cartuja in Sevilla, Spain. That present launched a 12-show leg in Europe that offered 659,000 tickets. Next was 19 reveals within the U.S. and Canada, including 807,000 tickets. That stays the highest-grossing and best-selling leg of the tour.
What adopted was a parade of reveals in Asia, Latin America, and Oceania, plus returns to Europe and North America earlier than closing on July 30 in Maryland Heights, Mo. While the primary stateside run claimed high honors for cumulative gross and attendance, the Chili Peppers? string of eight reveals in Australia and New Zealand (January-February 2023) boasted one of the best per-show ticket gross sales, averaging 47,326. Those dates have been helped by the presence of Post Malone, becoming a member of whereas on his Twelve Carat Tour.
As for particular person engagements, the largest was a double-header at England?s London Stadium on June 25-26, 2022. Those two mixed for 142,000 tickets offered. Among one-night-stands, it?s the Nov. 10, 2023 live performance at Estadio do Morumbi in Sao Paulo, the place the band performed to 71,000 followers.
These remaining figures symbolize a completely new peak within the Chili Peppers? profession. Though the band had dabbled with stadium reveals earlier than, this was its first full tour within the top-capacity venues. The tour?s 3.4 million attendance complete is about 3.5x the group?s earlier greatest, when the By the Way World Tour offered 979,000 in 2002-03. On common, the tour paced 39,761 tickets per present, up from 14,291 on the 1995-96 One Hot Minute Tour.
Dating again to a 1985 Halloween present at New York?s The Ritz, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have offered 8.6 million tickets over 498 reported reveals.
