Olivia Rodrigo achieves biggest tour of her generation

Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour closed as the biggest outing by an artist born in the 21st century, according to promoter Live Nation.

The 95-date venture spanned four continents, wrapping up late last month in Australia at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena (21,000). Rodrigo sold 1.4 million tickets across the expansive arena outing, grossing $184.6 million (£143.1m) at the box office across five legs, Live Nation confirmed.

The 21-year-old performer presumably takes the top slot from Billie Eilish, whose Happier Than Ever world tour outing reportedly made $131.7 million (£101.4m) across 79 shows between February 2022 and April 2023. The arena-level tour landed Eilish at number 14 on Billboard‘s highest-grossing tours in 2022.

Eilish’s ongoing arena outing, the Hit Me Hard And Soft world tour, is set to make 83 stops across three continents.

Beginning in February at Palm Springs, California’s Acrisure Arena (11,680), Rodrigo’s Live Nation-promoted trek traversed the US and Canada before landing in Europe. The tour returned to the US for a second leg before making stops across Asia and concluded with multi-night runs in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.

Rodrigo is due back out for a handful of festival headlining slots across South America next March, including Lollapalooza Argentina, Brazil, and Chile and Colombia’s Festival Estéreo Picnic. She was recently announced as a headliner for the OCESA-promoted Pa’l Norte Festival in Mexico alongside Charli XCX, Justin Timberlake, Green Day, and Massive Attack.

‘The singer-songwriter teamed up with Netflix for a concert film, which was released last Tuesday

She is also set to revisit the UK next summer with two sold-out Co-op Live (23,500) shows in Manchester after the original dates were postponed due to the Oak View Group-backed venue’s delayed opening earlier this year.

Last month, Rodrigo delivered the largest concert of her career in the Philippines, selling out the world’s largest indoor arena, the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena located 30 km (18.6 mi) outside of the capital city of Manila.

Tickets for the show were sold for PHP 1,500 (£20/$25), with all profits to be donated to Jhpiego, an international nonprofit organisation providing healthcare for women and families.

To celebrate the conclusion of the arena trek, the singer-songwriter teamed up with Netflix for a concert film, releasing Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour last Tuesday (29 October). The concert film was recorded across two performances at Los Angeles’ newest arena, the 18,000-capacity Intuit Dome, and features former opener Chappell Roan performing her hit HOT TO GO! alongside Rodrigo.

The Guts outing more than doubled the number of dates from her debut outing, the Sour Tour, in 2022. The theatre-level stint saw Rodrigo perform across 49 dates in support of her Grammy-winning debut album, Sour.

Rodrigo is represented worldwide by WME’s Peter Schwartz, Benjamin Schiffer, and David Tamaroff.

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