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Originally posted by OffTheWall
Didn't HIStory tour gross 165 million?
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That number came about in the last few years, I don't think it's accurate because he averaged almost 55K people a night but only $2M per show as a result which seems low considering he had multiple shows in high-prince places: Japan, Australia, UK/Ireland and Western Europe. Maybe it is right, but it just averages a little low from what you'd expect for that tour.
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The fact that MJ has:
The Highest Attended Tour of the 1980s with 4.498M tickets sold.
The Highest Grossing Solo Artist Tour of the 1980s (second overall) with $125.7M (>$250M in 2014 dollars).
The Sixth Highest Grossing Tour of the 1980s with $75M (>$170M in 2014 dollars)
The Highest Attended Solo Artist Tour of the 1990s with 4.5M tickets sold.
The Highest Grossing Solo Artist Tour of the 1990s (fifth overall) with apparently $165M (>$242M in 2014 dollars)
The Fourth Highest Grossing Tour of the 2010s - a damn TRIBUTE SHOW! - with $371M, making it the most financially successful Cirque du Soleil production ever, most successful tribute show of all time and the second highest attended tour for a solo artist's music of this century.
The Dangerous Tour is likely Top 10 for the 1990s (if we use the $2M average from the HIStory Tour of the same decade, he played 69 shows = $138M which places him 8th on the 1990s list (the next highest gross is down at $75M so it's definitely 8th if not 7th), and second only to his own HIStory Tour for highest grossing tour by a solo artist for the decade!)
This Is It had the highest gross average for any arena shows ever, and let's be real - if he had of bought the tour worldwide like Kenny Ortega indicated was on the table after London was finished with in 2010, it would be a contender for the highest grossing tour in history.
KING!
wish i was at neverland in a summer day in 1991-92.
MJ slayed us 20 years ago.