{"id":31367,"date":"2019-07-10T04:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31367"},"modified":"2019-07-10T04:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:40:37","slug":"elton-john-highest-grossing-tour-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/elton-john-highest-grossing-tour-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John \u2013 Highest Grossing Tour of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elton John - Rocket Man (Royal Festival Hall, London 1972)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_QZe8Z66x8?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>International music superstar, Elton John, has been named as the highest grossing touring artist of 2019 so far, leaving behind other successful artists such as BTS, Ed Sheeran and Drake.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran rocker sold 608,755 tickets for the 42 shows he played between November 2018 and March 2019, all of which are a part of his tour. This period represents only the beginning of his tour, so he will certainly dominate the charts for some time to come.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, he announced his last tour \u201cFarewell Yellow Brick Road\u201d, after which he will retire from touring and focus on his family. The \u201cFarewell Yellow Brick Road\u201d tour will last three years and see more than 300 shows in North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australasia before it concludes in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The North American leg and his first three weeks in Europe already marked his climb as the most grossing artist of the year. Following closely behind is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/pink-tickets\">Pink<\/a> with $81.8 million for her \u201cBeautiful Trauma\u201d tour. Even though the artist did not beat John on the global level, Pink stayed the highest earner in the North American chart, a title claimed in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Another British solo artist with record-breaking tour is Ed Sheeran, whose \u201cDivide Tour\u201d landed him in the top 10. His tour will last until mid-August and depending on the success, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/ed-sheerans-tour-close-to-breaking-an-all-time-record\/\">the \u201cDivide Tour\u201d might become the all-time highest grossing tour ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists with the most lucrative acts are Justin Timberlake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/metallica-preparing-new-album-while-touring\/\">Metallica<\/a> and Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n<p>You can get tickets through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/elton-john-tickets\">this link here<\/a> and not miss out on the last opportunity to see the Rocketman perform live before retiring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farewell Yellow Brick Road<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Show Date and Time: Wednesday, September 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Show Location: Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International music superstar, Elton John, has been named as the highest grossing touring artist of 2019 so far, leaving behind other successful artists such as&#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-31367","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\/31367","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=31367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31368,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31367\/revisions\/31368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}