Fastest Selling Concert Tickets in History!

Whenever we buy concert tickets (especially if we don’t get the seats we wanted!), it always seems like the fastest selling tour in history. It's no surprise, then, that a Google search for the fastest-selling concert ever produces mixed results. We look at some of these concerts, which hold different records (fastest selling tour overall, fastest UK concert, previous records, etc). We think that nowadays, it might have been possible to get tickets to a lot of these, with the wealth of good ticket brokers that are around …

AC/DC's Black Ice Tour

When a band slows down, it only makes every concert they do that much more valuable. The February 2010 tour of Australia by AC/DC went on sale in May 09 and quickly became one of the fastest selling concerts in Australian history. The Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth show concert tickets sold out quickly, but new seats were released for the Sydney and Melbourne shows earlier in the tour. It was the band's first tour in 8 years, and is being billed as their final shows. We'll see…

Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' Tour

33 seats were being sold every minute at one point when Michael Jackson's "This Is It" tour was being heavily promoted. He was another of the old-time legends proving to be plenty more popular than some of the new acts. Unfortunately, now this one only means that there are 33 grieving fans for every minute of the tour's sale time.

The Rolling Stones 'A Bigger Bang' Tour

This tour grossed $558 million over its course, from 2005 to 2007. Not bad for a few nights work, if you aren’t a bank robber! Actually there were some 144 nights work involved, and 4.7 million fans worldwide that got to see the old rockers in person.

Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour

It was only recently announced that Madonna broke her own record for concert ticket sales to a solo performance, with her Sticky and Sweet tour out-grossing her Confessions tour of 2006. 85 shows, 3.5 million fans, and $408 million later … I would still be doing the work at 50 if I was Madonna, as well!