Bad Bunny has broken the $1 billion barrier in total career grosses at the box office. And he’s done it powered by major 2026 stadium shows in South America, Australia, Japan and Europe.
When Bad Bunny announced the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour last year, the fact that his schedule did not include any shows in the United States was a widespread talking point. This is not the first tour by an international superstar to avoid stopping stateside, but now it’s the biggest.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour has grossed $360 million and sold 2.4 million tickets in its first 41 shows, current through its recent 10-show run at Madrid’s Riyadh Air Metripolitano (May 30-June 15). That makes it the highest grossing and bestselling tour in Boxscore history to not play any shows in the U.S.
In both metrics, Bad Bunny passes Take That’s Progress Live from 2011. That trek grossed a reported $185.2 million and sold 1.8 million tickets across 29 shows in the United Kingdom. Another six shows in continental Europe remain unreported but could not have reasonably made up the difference between it and Bad Bunny’s takes. Next, The Rolling Stones‘ 14 on Fire (2014) grossed $165.2 million and sold 863,000 tickets across Asia, Europe and Oceania.
With nearly twice the ticket revenue as Take That’s tour, Bad Bunny set this record in terms of gross months ago while in Buenos Aires during a three-night stint at Estadio River Plate from Feb. 13-15. With shows in Sao Paulo, Sydney, Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid since then, he has built a nearly two-to-one lead over the British boy band.
In terms of attendance, this record is fresh. Bad Bunny’s 10 shows in Madrid sold 623,000 tickets, putting his tour over the heap, 2.36 million tickets to 1.81 million.
With the first batch of Bad Bunny’s European shows reported, the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour is now his biggest trek ever, in gross and attendance. It passes 2022’s World’s Hottest Tour, which earned $314.1 million and sold 1.9 million tickets during his first go-around in stadiums, in the U.S. and Latin America.
Those two tours, plus arena runs via 2024’s Most Wanted Tour, 2022’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo, and pre-pandemic shows from 2017 to 2019, have combined to $1.08 billion and 6.4 million tickets from 260 reported shows. Fewer than 25 acts have ever grossed $1 billion in Boxscore’s 40-year history, but Bad Bunny’s inclusion is individually historic. He is the first Latin artist to ever gross more than $1 billion in ticket revenue. More broadly, he is the first artist to do so who does not perform in English.
This is not the first time that Bad Bunny has broken ground among Latin or non-English-language artists. In 2020, El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo became the first all-Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200. In 2022, he was the first non-English-language act to lead Billboard’s year-end Top Artists ranking. The same year, he was the first such artist to be No. 1 on the year-end Top Tours chart.
Bad Bunny’s Madrid shows grossed $96.1 million. Only 14 shows deep in the European leg’s schedule of 29, this is already the highest grossing and bestselling European leg of a tour by a Latin artist, ever. Combined with his shows in Barcelona and Lisbon, he has grossed $129.6 million and sold 861,000 tickets, accounting for 36% of the tour’s overall figures. With another 15 dates to be reported through his closing show in July 22 in Brussels, his entire world tour is headed toward a finish around $450 million or more.
