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When the Rolling Stones announced the concert, Toronto was still under a SARS warning from the World Health Organization. The publicity garnered by the SARS outbreak led to a downturn in Toronto's tourism industry, which the concert was intended to help revive. Tickets for the concert went on sale on June 27, 2003 and cost $21.50 Canadian. [3]
The Rolling Stones concert at Washington–Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Montana on 4 October 2006. Since forming in 1962, the English rock band the Rolling Stones have performed more than two thousand concerts around the world, [1] becoming one of the world's most popular live music attractions in the process. The Stones' first tour in their ...
The tour grossed $320 million, replacing The Division Bell Tour by Pink Floyd as the highest grossing of any artist at that time. [2] This was subsequently overtaken by a few other tours, but it remains the Rolling Stones' third highest grossing tour behind their 2005–07 A Bigger Bang Tour and their 2017–21 No Filter Tour. [3]
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According to Billboard Boxscore, the tour earned $235 million and sold 848,000 tickets. Billboard stated that "every market on the tour delivered an eight-figure gross, with the lone exception of Glendale, Arizona". They also further noted that this is their "sixth tour to earn more than $200 million and tenth to gross more than $100 million". [2]
The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75 was a 1975 concert tour originally intended to reach both North and South America. The plans for concerts in Central and South America never solidified, however, and the tour covered only the United States and Canada.
The Bridges to Babylon Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Rolling Stones. Staged in support of their album Bridges to Babylon , the tour visited stadiums from 1997 to 1998. It grossed over $274 million, becoming the second-highest-grossing tour at that time, behind their own Voodoo Lounge Tour of 1994–1995. [ 2 ]
The Stones returned to Vancouver, B.C. in Canada and played two sold-out concerts at B.C. Place Stadium. Fan reaction for tickets was unprecedented. One local radio station, 99.3 The Fox, even had a man (Andrew Korn) sit in front of the station in a bath tub filled with brown sugar and water for free tickets to the concert. [citation needed]