AC / DC, Australia’s most popular band in music history, has something to celebrate during their first tour after eight years away from the stage.
They’ve made more than 188 million dollars in the first six months of their tour, more than any other band in the same period.
AC / DC’s Black Ice tour, to promote their eponymous record, has already managed to attract 1.6 million people in 2009, for total revenues of $ 135,000,000, according to Billboard magazine’s mid-year report.
This is well over ticket sales for other megaconcerts, such as Bon Jovi (52 million) and Metallica (40 million), during the first 6 months of 2010.
AC / DC, who’ve been on the road since 2008, will give a total of 40 concerts in 2010. The total gross of the tour should be around 441 million dollars by the time it wraps up, making it the second most profitable of all time.
The #1 spot still belongs to the tour The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang tour which ran from 2005-2007 and generated no less than $ 558 million for 147 performances worldwide.