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Skip to main content Chris Brown performs during the Chris Brown: Breezy Bowl XX Tour at Truist Park on August 30, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Prince Williams/WireImage On August’s Boxscore recap, Chris Brown became the fourth artist to lead the monthly Top Tours chart in 2025, coming close to the nine-figure mark with $96.8 million. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, he comes even closer on September’s report, logging a second consecutive month at No. 1 with $98.1 million and 580,000 tickets sold. When Brown topped the charts last month, he became the 10th artist to report monthly earnings of more than $90 million since the lists launched in 2019. By immediately hitting that mark again, he becomes just the third act to do so twice. Beyoncé grossed more than $90 million in six different months, split evenly between 2023’s Renaissance World Tour and this year’s Cowboy Carter Tour. Bad Bunny did it twice, both during 2022’s World’s Hottest Tour. Cornel Wilczek, Megan Washington Among Winners at 2025 Screen Music Awards Lars Brandle Brown’s 13 shows during September were spread across 10 U.S. cities, three of which boasted double-headers. Those – Arlington, Texas (Globe Life Park on Sept. 2-3), Inglewood, Calif. (SoFi Stadium on Sept. 13-14), and Las Vegas (Allegiant Stadium on Sept. 19-20) – broke $10 million each, grossing $14 million, $16.3 million, and $15.8 million, respectively. They all appear in the top 10 of Top Boxscores. Brown launched Breezy Bowl XX in June and wrapped two weeks ago (Oct. 16). The entire trek earned $295.5 million and sold just under two million tickets (1.983 million) over 49 shows. Of those totals, $47.8 million and 490,000 tickets are from the tour’s European leg, and the remaining $247.8 million and 1.5 million tickets are from North American shows. On Brown’s first stadium tour, he’s up by 39% from his previous European trek (Under the Influence Tour 2023). In the U.S. and Canada, the leap is more pronounced, up 201% from last year’s The 11:11 Tour. Brown’s final Breezy Bowl shows push his career earnings over the half-billion mark. Across 322 reported shows, the R&B phenom has grossed $511.4 million and sold 4.9 million tickets. That includes all of his solo headline revenue, plus 50% of co-headline tours like a pair of 2007 tours with Ne-Yo and Bow Wow, 2015’s Between The Sheets Tour (with Trey Songz) and 2022’s One of Them Ones Tour (Lil Baby). It’s not just Brown who repeats atop the monthly charts: Coldplay is No. 1 for a second straight month on Top Boxscores, with the final four of its 10 shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. The first six topped the August ranking with $78.9 million, and this month’s shows add $52.5 million. Altogether, the three-week run brought in $131.4 million and sold 791,000 tickets. Both in terms of earnings and attendance, Coldplay’s Wembley Stadium run is the biggest single-venue engagement by a headline artist ever. That record applies to artists on tour, and does not include extended residencies, like Celine Dion at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace or Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. The Wembley shows were the only dates on Coldplay’s calendar in September, but they are enough to earn the band the runner-up spot on Top Tours. In addition to a record-tying seven months at No. 1, this is its sixth appearance at No. 2. Brown and Coldplay are the third duo to go back-to-back at Nos. 1-2 this year, following Shakira and Tyler, The Creator in February and March, and Beyoncé and The Weeknd in May and June. As previously reported, Coldplay is planning more shows on the record-breaking Music of the Spheres World Tour for 2027. It’s already sold more tickets than any tour ever, and by the end of its teased 360-show run, it will likely be the biggest grosser as well. September marks the first top 10 appearance on Top Tours for three artists. Benson Boone is No. 6 with $29 million and 238,000 tickets. He previously topped out at No. 19 in January with shows in Asia and Australia. Tate McRae is No. 9 with $21.9 million and 175,000 tickets, up from No. 14 last month. In between, YoungBoy Never Broke Again makes his Top Tours debut, hitting No. 8 on his first chart appearance. The first 17 shows of the Make America Slime Again Tour pulled in $28.3 million from 231,000 tickets sold. He had a packed schedule, stretching from the 1st to the 29th, peaking with two shows each in Dallas ($3.9 million at American Airlines Center on Sept. 1-2) and Los Angeles ($3.8 million at Crypto.com Arena on Sept. 9-10). Lady Gaga is no stranger to the Top Tours chart but hits a new career high on the September ranking. After bouncing in and out of the top 10 over the last five months, she is No. 3 on the current edition. Eleven shows from The MAYHEM Ball grossed $39.7 million and sold 159,000 tickets, including major-market, multi-national dates in Chicago, London, Miami, New York, and Toronto. Just beneath her, former chart-topper Shakira is No. 4 with $33.9 million from eight shows in Mexico. Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour is already the highest-grossing Latin tour by a woman, and 17 yet-to-be-reported shows in South America could push its all-time status even further before its Dec. 11 Buenos Aires. Rounding out the top five, Zach Bryan earned $29.4 million and sold 192,000 tickets from just two shows in September. First, he performed at Notre Dame Stadium, welcoming 79,300 fans to the South Bend, Ind. stadium. But his second date, a Sept. 27 show at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, upped the ante with 112,000 tickets sold. It is reported to be the largest ticketed concert in U.S. history. Billboard‘s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. 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