Watch Beyoncé, Shakira, Paul McCartney & More Race to the Top of Year-End Boxscore Charts

It’s mid-December, which means Billboard is recapping the biggest artists, albums, songs, and tours of the year. Full year-end charts published Tuesday (Dec. 9), so now we dig deeper into the highest grossing tours of 2025, week by week.

Based on reported shows between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, worldwide, the year-end race kicked off in a tight heat. By Oct. 5, Paul McCartney was less than 0.01% ahead of P!nk, both at $14.8 million. Bruno Mars was not far behind at $14.1 million in the first five days of the tracking period.

Those three acts traded spots around the chart’s upper tier for a month and a half, with Mars extending his lead each week, grossing $85 million by Nov. 5 from 14 shows in Brazil. On the other side of the globe, Coldplay took over for three weeks, barely surpassing Mars with $85.5 million in Australia and New Zealand.

Watch the year’s biggest tours, from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025 below:

As 2024 turned over, McCartney was back on top, having wrapped his fall tour across Europe and Latin America. And then Coldplay quickly regained the lead with record-breaking shows in India in January.

Coldplay held the top spot from mid-January through mid-June, but there was plenty of movement underneath them. SEVENTEEN, Shakira, and Kendrick Lamar and SZA all took turns in the runner-up slot, while Aventura, Eagles and Usher circled the summit.

But as summer officially kicked off, Beyoncé roared to the top. Cowboy Carter Tour grossed more than $400 million during its 32-show run, becoming the year’s biggest tour, so far, before the end of June. At one point in July, she extended her lead over Lamar and SZA by nearly $90 million, doubling the gross of anyone outside the top five.

Queen Bey wrapped Cowboy Carter Tour on July 27, but the rest of the year’s biggest tours continued. Lamar and SZA finished their European leg on Aug. 9, Coldplay and The Weeknd played through early September, and Shakira returned to Mexico City on Sept. 18. So which one ended the year at No. 1? Watch the video, embedded above, to find out!