concerts can be a mind-blowing
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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
concert tours of all time for this list
we’re looking at the greatest concert
tours that musicians have ever embarked
upon we’re basing our picks on the
impact that tours had on the music world
critical acclaim financial intake and
attendance we’re excluding individual
concerts from this list as we’re only
interested in the tour as a whole while
festivals such as the Warped Tour are
also excluded
number ten razor’s edge world tour
ac/dc
ACDC is one of the most celebrated
revered and popular music acts of all
time making it impossible to deny the
amount of publicity and acclaim that
their world tours received perhaps none
were bigger or better than the infamous
razor’s edge world tour
when ac/dc were at the top of their game
playing over 160 shows across the world
the band was touring on the razor’s edge
album and featured fan favorite songs
like thunderstruck back in black and
highway to hell full of the typical
manic energy that ac/dc is known for
this tour was hard rock at its absolute
best
number nine New Jersey syndicate or Bon
Jovi this Maltese
in support of their widely successful
and seven times platinum selling album
New Jersey
Bon Jovi took off on their equally
successful encompassing New Jersey
syndicate tour which spanned just under
two years
at the height of their powers Bon Jovi
put on wildly erratic performances night
after night in fact their energy was so
intense and exhausting that the band had
to take an extended hiatus after the
completion of the tour featuring
explosive pyrotechnics and even a
catwalk above the crowd
Bon Jovi proved to everyone that they
could put on a kick-ass show
number eight reflector Tour Arcade Fire
jumping from indie darlings to worldwide
phenomenon with hits like the suburbs
and afterlife
Arcade Fire has become of the most
critically acclaimed bands in music
today with the reflector tour the
Montreal band demonstrated that they can
put on a spectacle just as well as they
can write beautiful music while lead
singer wind butler validated himself as
a joyful frontman
complete with glass hexagons above the
group and fans decked out in their
flashiest costumes the reflector tour
was a glorious practice in visual and
auditory bliss
number seven his stereo world tour Def
Leppard
Def Leppard’s hysteria is one of the
best-selling albums of the 1980s so it’s
no surprise that the supporting tour for
the record would be just as big of a hit
totaling over two hundred and thirty six
shows played in multiple cities around
the planet the hysteria World Tour is
notable for many reasons
this includes being drummer Rick Alan’s
first tour since his life-changing car
accident as well as guitarist Steve
Clark’s last tour before his death in
1991
with huge production values such as a
360-degree stage setup it’s not hard to
see that Def Leppard brought their
a-game to this groundbreaking tour
number six born in the USA tour Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band
the mid-1980s were truly some of the
best times in modern music and it is
without a doubt that Bruce Springsteen
tours are some of the most popular and
revered of all time
moding the now classic born in the USA
album Springsteen played 156 amped up
energetic shows across the world
convincing all that a rock god was in
the making next
selling out football stadiums the tour
was an enormous success grossing between
80 and 90 million and keeping the album
inside the Billboard top ten throughout
the entire tour
number-5 Blonde Ambition world tour
Madonna
while Madonna’s sticky & sweet tour was
certainly a revolution wait there’s no
denying the high slit Madonna reached in
1990 with her Blonde Ambition world tour
she was certainly on top of the world at
this point in her career as she had just
released like a prayer one of her most
popular albums
named the greatest concert of the 1990s
by Rolling Stone this tour was highly
controversial mostly due to the singer’s
exceedingly sexual act nevertheless it
was extremely profitable and cemented
Madonna as a musical icon
number four steel wheels urban jungle
tour The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are certainly no
strangers to fantastic concerts Worman
Lee needs to look at their licks or a
bigger bang tour to realize that this
timeless British band can put on a
better show than any other bands before
or since that said their steel wheels
urban jungle tour rises above and beyond
spanning from 1989 to 1990 the band
played 115 shows and the concerts
grossed nearly 100 million dollars it
may have been bassist Bill Wyman’s last
go-around with the stones but he
certainly went out with a bang
number three bad Michael Jackson don’t
you move so what
while the tour’s title may have
suggested otherwise this massive Michael
Jackson tour was anything but bad before
his classic dangerous tour
Jackson embarked on his first solo
attempt with bad and his infectious
energy wowed the world over filled with
unstoppable songs like Bennett and
Billie Jean
Jaxson pranks and danced around the
stage like only he knew how amazing
everyone with his vocal and physical
skills
you may have had his troubles offstage
but on it MJ was simply untouchable me
cheese
number two the wall live Roger Waters
with the wall live Roger Waters
confirmed that he could put on an
ambitious show even without the Pink
Floyd brand standing in the
the first time that the wall was
performed in its entirety since waters
1990 Berlin concert the tour grossed
over 450 million dollars and was easily
one of the most complex tours of all
time
loaded with dramatic flair props and a
gigantic wall erected on stage the wall
live was less a musical experience and
more of a visual art piece no other
concert has attempted with Roger Waters
maniacally and miraculously pulled off
before we look at our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
as well
number one Zoo TV tour you too
while there’s no denying that YouTube
360 tour was amazing from a production
standpoint their Zoo TV tour was
revolutionary and changed the concept of
what a concert could be
visiting stadiums throughout 1992 and
1993 the tour was meant to give
audiences a new perspective of the band
and boy did it succeed
it was elaborately staged and satirized
the media by giving a sensory overload
to the crowd something you had to see to
believe
my
by completely reinventing their image
and sound you too also reinvented the
musical and concert world forever
so do you agree with our list what tour
do you consider to be the best
for more musical top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
experience and these are the best of the
best
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
concert tours of all time for this list
we’re looking at the greatest concert
tours that musicians have ever embarked
upon we’re basing our picks on the
impact that tours had on the music world
critical acclaim financial intake and
attendance we’re excluding individual
concerts from this list as we’re only
interested in the tour as a whole while
festivals such as the Warped Tour are
also excluded
number ten razor’s edge world tour
ac/dc
ACDC is one of the most celebrated
revered and popular music acts of all
time making it impossible to deny the
amount of publicity and acclaim that
their world tours received perhaps none
were bigger or better than the infamous
razor’s edge world tour
when ac/dc were at the top of their game
playing over 160 shows across the world
the band was touring on the razor’s edge
album and featured fan favorite songs
like thunderstruck back in black and
highway to hell full of the typical
manic energy that ac/dc is known for
this tour was hard rock at its absolute
best
number nine New Jersey syndicate or Bon
Jovi this Maltese
in support of their widely successful
and seven times platinum selling album
New Jersey
Bon Jovi took off on their equally
successful encompassing New Jersey
syndicate tour which spanned just under
two years
at the height of their powers Bon Jovi
put on wildly erratic performances night
after night in fact their energy was so
intense and exhausting that the band had
to take an extended hiatus after the
completion of the tour featuring
explosive pyrotechnics and even a
catwalk above the crowd
Bon Jovi proved to everyone that they
could put on a kick-ass show
number eight reflector Tour Arcade Fire
jumping from indie darlings to worldwide
phenomenon with hits like the suburbs
and afterlife
Arcade Fire has become of the most
critically acclaimed bands in music
today with the reflector tour the
Montreal band demonstrated that they can
put on a spectacle just as well as they
can write beautiful music while lead
singer wind butler validated himself as
a joyful frontman
complete with glass hexagons above the
group and fans decked out in their
flashiest costumes the reflector tour
was a glorious practice in visual and
auditory bliss
number seven his stereo world tour Def
Leppard
Def Leppard’s hysteria is one of the
best-selling albums of the 1980s so it’s
no surprise that the supporting tour for
the record would be just as big of a hit
totaling over two hundred and thirty six
shows played in multiple cities around
the planet the hysteria World Tour is
notable for many reasons
this includes being drummer Rick Alan’s
first tour since his life-changing car
accident as well as guitarist Steve
Clark’s last tour before his death in
1991
with huge production values such as a
360-degree stage setup it’s not hard to
see that Def Leppard brought their
a-game to this groundbreaking tour
number six born in the USA tour Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band
the mid-1980s were truly some of the
best times in modern music and it is
without a doubt that Bruce Springsteen
tours are some of the most popular and
revered of all time
moding the now classic born in the USA
album Springsteen played 156 amped up
energetic shows across the world
convincing all that a rock god was in
the making next
selling out football stadiums the tour
was an enormous success grossing between
80 and 90 million and keeping the album
inside the Billboard top ten throughout
the entire tour
number-5 Blonde Ambition world tour
Madonna
while Madonna’s sticky & sweet tour was
certainly a revolution wait there’s no
denying the high slit Madonna reached in
1990 with her Blonde Ambition world tour
she was certainly on top of the world at
this point in her career as she had just
released like a prayer one of her most
popular albums
named the greatest concert of the 1990s
by Rolling Stone this tour was highly
controversial mostly due to the singer’s
exceedingly sexual act nevertheless it
was extremely profitable and cemented
Madonna as a musical icon
number four steel wheels urban jungle
tour The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are certainly no
strangers to fantastic concerts Worman
Lee needs to look at their licks or a
bigger bang tour to realize that this
timeless British band can put on a
better show than any other bands before
or since that said their steel wheels
urban jungle tour rises above and beyond
spanning from 1989 to 1990 the band
played 115 shows and the concerts
grossed nearly 100 million dollars it
may have been bassist Bill Wyman’s last
go-around with the stones but he
certainly went out with a bang
number three bad Michael Jackson don’t
you move so what
while the tour’s title may have
suggested otherwise this massive Michael
Jackson tour was anything but bad before
his classic dangerous tour
Jackson embarked on his first solo
attempt with bad and his infectious
energy wowed the world over filled with
unstoppable songs like Bennett and
Billie Jean
Jaxson pranks and danced around the
stage like only he knew how amazing
everyone with his vocal and physical
skills
you may have had his troubles offstage
but on it MJ was simply untouchable me
cheese
number two the wall live Roger Waters
with the wall live Roger Waters
confirmed that he could put on an
ambitious show even without the Pink
Floyd brand standing in the
the first time that the wall was
performed in its entirety since waters
1990 Berlin concert the tour grossed
over 450 million dollars and was easily
one of the most complex tours of all
time
loaded with dramatic flair props and a
gigantic wall erected on stage the wall
live was less a musical experience and
more of a visual art piece no other
concert has attempted with Roger Waters
maniacally and miraculously pulled off
before we look at our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
as well
number one Zoo TV tour you too
while there’s no denying that YouTube
360 tour was amazing from a production
standpoint their Zoo TV tour was
revolutionary and changed the concept of
what a concert could be
visiting stadiums throughout 1992 and
1993 the tour was meant to give
audiences a new perspective of the band
and boy did it succeed
it was elaborately staged and satirized
the media by giving a sensory overload
to the crowd something you had to see to
believe
my
by completely reinventing their image
and sound you too also reinvented the
musical and concert world forever
so do you agree with our list what tour
do you consider to be the best
for more musical top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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