Bruce Springsteen’s 10 Biggest Tours Ever

Quite simply, Bruce Springsteen is one of the biggest acts in the history of live music. He has reported more than 1,000 shows to Billboard Boxscore, staging 17 tours over the last 50 years. On Tuesday (March 31), he kicks off his 18th as Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour will begin in Minneapolis. But before the lights go down at the Target Center, Billboard is looking back at the biggest tours of his career.

Springsteen — solo and with the E Street Band — has been a constant presence on Boxscore’s year-end Top Tours ranking since it launched in 1991. He never crowned the list, but landed at No. 2 five times, with another six top 10 finishes. Most recently, the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour landed at No. 5 in 2024 and No. 22 in 2025.

Altogether, Springsteen’s reported dates accumulate to $2.3 billion and 22.6 million tickets sold. That includes sparse reports for Born to Run Tour shows in 1976, but otherwise dates back to 1985 shows on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour. A quick flash to those three ’76 shows offer a glimpse into a different concert business entirely: Cost of admission for his sold-out shows of 3,000-6,000 fans was just $6 per ticket. The industry has overturned prices for artists across the board, but Springsteen has also expanded his audience several times over: His last tour averaged 37,900 tickets per show.

Springsteen is one of only four artists in the Boxscore archives to gross more than $2 billion (not including Taylor Swift, whose record-shattering The Eras Tour was not officially reported to Billboard), and one of five to sell more than 20 million tickets.

Keep reading for a breakdown of the Boss’ 10 highest grossing tours ever. All data is according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.