Red Hot Chili Peppers world tour attracts 3.4m

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ multi-year Unlimited Love Tour has entered the record books after drawing more than 3.4 million fans across the globe.

Launched in June 2022, the 86-date trek featured multiple legs around the world, visiting 20 countries and including 66 stadium shows.

The outing, which supported the group’s two 2022 #1 studio albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen, ranks as the third best-selling rock tours of the 2020s so far, behind only Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres (7.7m and counting) and Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road (6.1m), according to Billboard Boxscore.

The tour featured special guests including A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Beck, City and Colour, DOMi & JD BECK, Haim, Ice Cube, Iggy Pop, Ken Carson, King Princess, Otoboke Beaver, Post Malone, Seun Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80, St. Vincent, The Mars Volta, The Roots, The Strokes, Thundercat and Wand.

“We are thrilled to feature the very best of LA with local artists and are grateful to Billie, H.E.R., the Chili Peppers and Snoop for their collaboration”

On the final 18-date North American leg, which kicked off on May 28 this year at RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater in Ridgefield, Washington, and concluded on 30 July at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, RHCP partnered with local dog adoption agencies at every tour stop to raise awareness for adoptable dogs in the city.

It was the seventh highest-grossing run of 2022 at $77 million, according to Pollstar, earning a further $91m in the first half of 2023 and has generated a total gross in excess of $300m, with the final total still to be verified.

The CAA-represented band also performed at last night’s Closing Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Games when the Olympic Flag was officially handed off from Paris to Los Angeles for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games in their home city of Los Angeles. Other performers included Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and H.E.R.

“This is the biggest moment in LA28 history to date, as the Olympic flag passes from Paris to LA,” said LA28 and Wasserman Music chair Casey Wasserman, speaking ahead of the event. “We are thrilled to feature the very best of LA with local artists and are grateful to Billie, H.E.R., the Chili Peppers and Snoop for their collaboration on what will be an incredible show to a global audience that will give fans a taste of what’s to come in 2028.”

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