By Allison Sylte
might be the Boss, but he doesn’t make as much as Madonna, whose 2012 tour outgrossed his by nearly $30 million.
MDNA tour , selling out 72 of its 72 dates between Nov. 9, 2011 and Nov. 13, 2012, according to a
, raking in $199,371,791, and selling out 54 of its 72 shows. Ultimately though, Springsteen had higher attendance (2,165,925) than Madonna (1,635,176), perhaps proving that people are willing to pay more to hear songs about being a material girl than tunes about working class dreams.
Roger Waters, Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson Tribute tour, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, Van Halen, Jay-Z and Kanye West, and Andre Rieu () finished up the top 10.
Nickelback, which ranked 17th on the list, grossed more than Elton John, Justin Bieber, Pearl Jam, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts — a pretty big accomplishment, given that
, and on Oct. 18.
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Pop music blogger Allison Sylte is a Fort Collins-based writer and new contributor to Reverb.
