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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Olivia Rodrigo delivers her biggest-ever concert
Olivia Rodrigo delivered the largest concert of her career on Saturday night during the Philippines stop of her arena outing, the Guts World Tour.
The Filipina-American singer delivered a sold-out show to the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena, the world’s largest indoor arena located 30 km (18.6 mi) outside of the capital city of Manila.
The 21-year-old plans to donate all profits from the concert – her first in the Philippines – to Jhpiego, an international nonprofit organisation providing healthcare for women and families.
The Johns Hopkins University-affiliated initiative provides access to reproductive healthcare, infectious disease prevention, and immunizations, operating across more than 40 countries including the Philippines.
“I’m SO stoked that all the net ticket sales from last night could be donated to @jhpiego through my fund 4 good,” Rodrigo wrote on Instagram. “I got to visit the organization while I was in Manila and was so impressed by the work they are doing providing healthcare to women and girls in the Philippines.”
“It was the most special show and the most meaningful trip. To say I’m grateful doesn’t even cut it! Mahal kita [I love you].”
Tickets for the show were sold for PHP 1,500 (£20/$25), with all net proceeds allocated to Rodrigo’s Fund 4 Good, a global initiative to boost women and girls through “direct support of community-based non-profits that champion girls’ education, support reproductive rights and prevent gender-based violence”. The reduced ticket price supported her Silver Star programme to increase affordability and access to the tour while sustaining the Fund 4 Good.
“It was the most special show and the most meaningful trip. To say I’m grateful doesn’t even cut it”
Launching the initiative alongside last year’s tour announcement, Rodrigo has aided local organisations throughout the 99-date venture, which is due to end with eight shows across Melbourne and Syndey later this month. The former Disney actress has partnered with the National Network of Abortion Funds in North America, 600 Canadian women’s shelters, and Women Against Violence Europe across her regional tour legs.
While the arena tour will end this year, Rodrigo is lined up to headline four Latin American festivals in March 2025: Lollapalooza Argentina, Brazil, and Chile and Colombia’s Festival Estéreo Picnic.
The Guts World Tour will soon be visiting homes worldwide as Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour is set to debut on Netflix on 29 October. The concert film was recorded across two performances at Los Angeles’ newest arena, the 18,000-capacity Intuit Dome, in August. The LA-based songwriter performed six nights in LA, with four shows at the Kia Forum (18,000).
“I am so excited to share the Guts World Tour with my fans,” Rodrigo said. “For those of you who didn’t get a chance to rock out in-person, now you can have the best seats in the house! And to the fans who cheered, screamed, and danced with me, I am so glad we get to do it all over again!”
The Live Nation-promoted trek has traversed North America, Europe, and Asia, and will hit Australia on Wednesday (9 October). The singer-songwriter released her critically acclaimed second album GUTS last September, with its support tour beginning in February at Palm Spring’s Acrisure Arena (11,680).
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