Per box office numbers reported by independent resource Touring Data, the 30-show Dead & Company Dead Forever residency at Las Vegas, NV’s Sphere brought in over $130 million in gross tickets sales. That total lands Dead Forever at the 39th spot on the site’s list of the top-grossing tours of the 2020s.
According to the aforementioned tallies, which appear to rely on independently reported figures for each show, a collective 479,945 tickets costing an average of $275.61 each were sold for the Live Nation-produced, 30-show residency (an average of 15,898 per night). The total reported gross on revenue on ticket sales for the run amounted to $131,449,777.
Touring Data’s reported ticket sales numbers for Dead & Company at Sphere clock Dead Forever‘s gross as being more than $15 million higher than the sum pulled in by the Grateful Dead offshoot’s 29-show The Final Tour in 2023 ($114.84M). That tour finished as the 15th highest-grossing tour of the year, per Billboard‘s official year-end Top 40 Tours report. As of publication time, Dead Forever sits between Billie Eilish‘s 2022 Happier Than Ever trek ($131.76M) and The Rolling Stones‘ 2017 No Filter Tour ($130.91M) on Touring Data’s list of the decade’s top-grossing tours so far.
In other Dead & Company Sphere numbers news, the band recently published its Participation Row numbers from the Dead Forever residency. The long-running partnership between the band, HeadCount, Reverb, and the Dead Family Nonprofits that gets fans to participate in a number of worthy causes at shows reported nearly 40,000 actions taken by 11,900 fans during the Sphere residency. That included 11,700+ voter actions and 13,8000+ environmental actions. Funds raised for the various Dead Family Nonprofits topped $2.2M.
Thank you to the fans who took actions on #ParticipationRow at every #DeadForever show & supported @HeadCountOrg, @REVERB_org, and Dead Family Nonprofits. Plus, a special thanks to our reps & volunteer teams that made Participation Row & our charity auction happen every night. pic.twitter.com/nc36Dj9ycj
— Dead & Company (@deadandcompany) August 27, 2024
While the members of Dead & Company have indicated on various occasions that they would be open to another Sphere run, the band does not officially have any upcoming shows on its calendar. Assuming their assertions surrounding 2023’s The Final Tour remain true, Dead & Company do not intend to mount any traditional tours in the future.
[H/T JamBase]
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