GN'R Reunion Becomes The Third Best Selling Tour In History

JAKARTA - A reunion tour that was once impossible, featuring three Guns N 'Roses icons; Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan, playing together again is the third best-selling tour of all time, Billboard reports.

Titled 'Not In This Lifetime', this tour started in April 2016 and ended 2 November 2019 at the Colosseum, Cesare Place, Las Vegas. During this period the American band sold 5,371,891 tickets and earned US $ 584.2 million from 158 concerts.

Ed Sheeran held the top-grossing spot with US $ 775 million during the 2017-2019 Divide tour, and U2 remained in second place with their 360º tour, which grossed US $ 736 million between 2009-2011.

"The tour has its roots in North America, with 87 of 158 shows (55 percent) taking place in the US, Canada, and Mexico," notes Billboard. "However, there have also been several visits to Europe (31 shows), Asia (16) and South America (15), plus eight dates in Australia and one in Johannesburg, South Africa."

Meanwhile, the Billboard report continued, their home continent tour generated US $ 258.5 million from the 2.3 million tickets sold, much higher than the European tour which only generated US $ 166.1 million.

Not only that. Guns N 'Roses made more than $ 10 million from a single concert five times, and sold more than 100,000 tickets for a single concert on four occasions. The most successful was a two-night concert at London Stadium, England in June 2017, where they grossed $ 17.7 million and sold 140,877 tickets.

The band that was once nicknamed 'The Most Dangerous Band In The World' is currently enjoying a break from its long tour but is expected to return with a new album as a follow-up to Chinese Democracy (2008).

Last April Slash revealed they would go into the studio and work on new material, or Slash, Axl, and Duff's first album since The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) or since the soundtrack single Interview with the Vampire, a recycle of Rolling Stone, Symphaty for the Devil (1994).

"There's been so much talk about the (new) Guns N 'Roses alabum, that we haven't been working on it yet," Slash. "So we're going to focus on that."