Harry Styles, Niall Horan Find Success With Solo Tours
Styles wrapped his 10-month trek – titled “Harry Styles: Live on Tour” – last month, racking up more than $62 million from over 800,000 sold tickets. Styles hit the road last fall in support of his eponymous debut studio album that arrived in May 2017. With a string of 13 theater dates on tap in North American markets, the English singer kicked off the tour on Sept. 19 in San Francisco. For the remainder of 2017 he was booked in Europe, Asia and Oceania, also primarily in smaller, theater-sized venues, but he jumped to arenas when he resumed the trek in March after a winter break.
He began his 2018 schedule with a 20-city run in Europe that included an engagement at London’s O2 Arena and a $2.1 million take – his top gross outside of North America. With sellout crowds on two nights (April 11-12), total attendance was tracked at 29,212. It was his second two-show stint in London, having played the 5,300-seat Eventim Apollo on Oct. 29-30 during the first European leg of the tour.
The highest boxoffice gross during the tour came this summer during Styles’ final run through North America. He sold out two shows at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 21 and 22 and drew 36,353 fans, grossing $2.8 million. Those boxoffice counts are second only to U2 at the Garden this summer, based on reports to Pollstar since Memorial Day. The Irish band’s three shows (June 25-26, July 1) took in $8.7 million from 55,575 sold tickets. Styles did best the other headliner at the arena who also sold out two shows this summer -- fellow countryman Sam Smith with a $2.1 million total from concerts on June 29-30.
Styles took the No. 13 ranking on Pollstar’s Mid-Year Top 100 Worldwide Tours based on $50.9 million in revenue from 663,711 total tickets in 49 cities worldwide. The Mid-Year rankings, based on a January through June time period, encompassed the bulk of his tour, but not all of it. As noted earlier, the tour’s final overall gross ultimately reached $62 million.
