Major 2025 tours are dominated by superstar acts and massive reunions, including Beyoncé ("Cowboy Carter"), Oasis, Lady Gaga ("Mayhem Ball"), and Kendrick Lamar & SZA. Other major acts touring in 2025 include Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Shakira, Usher, and Imagine Dragons.
2025 was a huge year already for concerts, with the likes of Coldplay, Sabrina Carpenter, Beyonce and Dua Lipa wowing crowds up and down the country. Biggest of all, Oasis have been touring around the UK with a memorable comeback tour.
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Who has the biggest tour in 2025?
1 spot. Pollstar has posted a list of the Top 10 biggest-grossing tours of the year, and Beyoncé's “Cowboy Carter Tour” topped the tally with $407,600,113, roughly $2 million more than the reunited Oasis' $405,428,435. Beyoncé's total was helped by an average ticket price of $255.36, as opposed to Oasis' $181.93.
It's a debate with different answers depending on the metric, but Taylor Swift currently leads in recent sales, streaming, and chart dominance (Eras Tour, album sales), while Beyoncé is often cited by critics like Billboard for a longer legacy of consistent influence, evolution, and impact across her 25-year career. Swift has higher current Spotify listeners and more followers, but Beyoncé has a longer track record, making her the "greatest pop star of the century" by some editorial metrics despite Swift's current numbers.
www.metalsucks.net | In This Moment announces their 2025 'Black Mass Tour' starting on September 18th, featuring Dayseeker, The Funeral Portrait, and DED as special guests.
Eminem has expressed significant admiration and respect for Taylor Swift, calling her "scary good" and "the future of lyricism" after seeing her rap "Lose Yourself," and recently included her in a contextually complex reference in his "Face-Off" video to acknowledge her immense success and evolving artistry, while also publicly supporting her against Kanye West's infamous VMA interruption years ago. He sees her as a peer who has mastered reinvention, contrasting it with his own "Slim Shady" persona in his recent work.
As of December 2025, six music artists have reached the billionaire status on Forbes reports: Jay-Z leading the list with $2.5 billion, Taylor Swift—the richest female musician—and then Rihanna, the first female artist to become a billionaire.
This year's Spotify Wrapped has been released, giving fans a personalised summary of their listening habits over the last year. The streaming giant said that Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny was the world's most-played artist of 2025, with more than 19.8 billion streams.
