{"id":31343,"date":"2019-05-29T03:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31343"},"modified":"2019-05-29T03:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:32:45","slug":"ed-sheerans-tour-close-to-breaking-an-all-time-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/ed-sheerans-tour-close-to-breaking-an-all-time-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran\u2019s Tour Close to Breaking an All-time Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran - Perfect (Official Music Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Vv-BfVoq4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With The Divide Tour going on for more than two years, Ed Sheeran continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/ed-sheeran-north-american-tour-approaches-300m-mark\/\">his unstoppable global momentum<\/a> with the highest grossing tour of April.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to his latest grosses of $31.8 million and 277,864 tickets sold for eight concerts throughout Asia (April 4<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 April 28<sup>th<\/sup>), his tour has become second in history to gross over $600 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Shape of You\u201d singer grossed $6.1 million at the Tokyo Dome on April 9<sup>th<\/sup>, and $5.6 million at Singapore\u2019s National Stadium on April 26<sup>th<\/sup>. These mark the best showings of his career in Asia, outdoing his $5 million gross at Tokyo\u2019s Nippon Budokan in 2018 earlier in his tour.<\/p>\n<p>When it all adds up, Sheeran has earned $50.8 million in Asia during The Divide Tour and $54.3 million on the continent across his career, dating back to a March 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015 performance at Shanghai\u2019s Mercedes-Benz Arena. His recent outing in Asia towers over his previous ones with the $9.9 million he grossed over for shows in April 2018, and $9.2 million amassed over six shows in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Every time he visits Asia, a new market is added to his repertoire. That was also the case with his latest trip, where he played his first show in Taiwan on April 4<sup>th<\/sup>, where he grossed $3.3 million at the Taoyuan City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It was noted in December, that Sheeran would need to gross $171.4 million in 2019 in order to achieve the highest grossing of all time. He has closed that gap after 18 dates in South America, South Africa, and Asia, with just $109 million separating his The Divide Tour and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/u2-360%C2%B0-tour\/\">U2\u2019s 360 Tour (2009-11).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final leg of his tour started on May 24<sup>th<\/sup> in Lyon, France, which will be his first show in Europe out of 35. If he manages to maintain a $3.1 million average gross per show, he will be the one to set the all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>The Divide Tour is to end on August 26<sup>th<\/sup> which means there are only a handful of shows where you can contribute to the monumental endeavor, plus get a chance to listen to some of your favorite songs.<\/p>\n<p>So hurry up and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/Search?query=ed+sheeran\">secure your tickets<\/a>, before it\u2019s too late!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Divide Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Show Date and Time: Friday, August 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Show Location: Ipswich, UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With The Divide Tour going on for more than two years, Ed Sheeran continues his unstoppable global momentum with the highest grossing tour of April&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31344,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31343\/revisions\/31344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}