Highest Grossing Tours Ever. So let’s take a look at the top 10 tours in terms of revenue, according to billboard boxscore. Five years, 278 shows and 5 million fans in attendance later, elton john’s farewell yellow brick road tour became the highest grossing tour of all time and the.

$584 million guns n’ roses: Now more than ever, major concert tours translate to megabucks for superstar artists who otherwise earn only fractions of a cent per digital song download or stream.