Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres raises bar for most-attended tour

An estimated 13 million tickets have been sold across Coldplay's expansive run, with more shows potentially on the horizon

News By Hanna Ellington | 8 September 2025

© Coldplay / Anna Lee Media
© Coldplay / Anna Lee Media
Coldplay has raised the bar for the highest-attended single concert tour with the Music of the Spheres World Tour – with more shows potentially on the horizon.When the curtain falls on the British band's ten-night run at London's Wembley Stadium (cap. 90,000) this Friday, 12 September, the expansive trek will have sold an estimated 13 million tickets over its 223-show, three-and-a-half-year run, Pollstar Boxoffice estimates.The globe-trotting outing, which began in March 2022 at San José, Costa Rica’s Estadio Nacional (35,000), surpassed both Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour (10.3m tickets) and Ed Sheeran's Divide Tour (8.9m) to ta

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