Seeing your favorite artist on tour can be transcendent. Seeing two of your favorite artists on the same night? Even better.
Over Billboard Boxscore’s four decades, like-minded artists have paired together to combine forces as co-headliners. Here, we’re looking at the biggest team-ups ever with a list of the 40 biggest co-headline tours in Boxscore history.
To qualify for this list, the tour must run for at least 10 shows. That excludes brief collaborations by Post Malone and Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2023 in Australia, and Billy Joel with Sting in 2024-25. But no need to fret, as both Joel and Sting make the list with separate co-headliners.
Several artists on the list appear multiple times. Jay-Z has toured with Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, and many more through the years. Journey has paired with Def Leppard, The Doobie Brothers, and Steve Miller Band. Enrique Iglesias toured with Pitbull on multiple occasions in the 2010s, with Ricky Martin in 2021, and then with both on The Trilogy Tour (2023-24). Further, certain pairs repeat, highlighted by the many successive editions of Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face to Face tours.
Per the case of The Trilogy Tour (Iglesias, Martin & Pitbull), the list also includes tours with three equally billed artists. There’s one other trio on the ranking – a trifecta of cross-generational rock bands that used their combined powers to level up from arenas to stadiums.
Two tours in the top 40 are ongoing. Tina Fey & Amy Poehler launched The Restless Leg Tour in 2022, playing theaters and then arenas, mixing stand-up, improv and Q&A amid a sea of pop and rock stars. And Kendrick Lamar and SZA kicked off the Grand National Tour in April, and will hop the pond next month for a leg of shows in Europe.
Scroll for a detailed breakdown of the highest-grossing co-headline tours of all time, by the numbers. All data is according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.
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Charli xcx & Troye Sivan, Sweat (2024)
Image Credit: Henry Redcliffe Gross: $28M
Tickets: 297K
Shows: 22 -
Peter Gabriel & Sting, Rock Paper Scissors Tour (2016)
Gross: $29.5M
Tickets: 268K
Shows: 20 -
Guns N’ Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour (1992)
Gross: $30.3M
Tickets: 1.1M
Shows: 24 -
Christina Aguilera & Justin Timberlake, The Justified & Stripped Tour (2003)
Image Credit: KMazur/WireImage Gross: $30.3M
Tickets: 546K
Shows: 45 -
Brooks & Dunn and Reba [McEntire]: The Tour (1997-98)
Gross: $33.3M
Tickets: 838K
Shows: 70 -
The Doobie Brothers & Journey, San Francisco Fest 2016 (2016)
Gross: $33.7M
Tickets: 573K
Shows: 48 -
Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z, Heart of the City Tour (2008)
Gross: $34.5M
Tickets: 309K
Shows: 27 -
Journey & Steve Miller Band Tour (2014-15)
Gross: $34.8M
Tickets: 596K
Shows: 46 -
Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire, Together in Vegas (2015-21)
Image Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage Gross: $35.1M
Tickets: 247K
Shows: 64 -
Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin Live in Concert (2021)
Gross: $35.2M
Tickets: 312K
Shows: 26 -
Def Leppard & Journey, Yeah! Tour (2006)
Gross: $35.6M
Tickets: 783K
Shows: 66 -
Chris Brown & Lil Baby, One of Them Ones Tour (2022)
Gross: $36.9M
Tickets: 442K
Shows: 27 -
Lynyrd Skynyrd & ZZ Top, The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour (2023-24)
Gross: $37M
Tickets: 596K
Shows: 64 -
Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull Live! (2017)
Gross: $38M
Tickets: 415K
Shows: 35 -
Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull, Sex and Love Tour (2014-15)
Gross: $39.3M
Tickets: 462K
Shows: 36 -
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler, The Restless Leg Tour (2022-25)
Image Credit: Ralph Bavaro/NBCUniversal Gross: $40.8M
Tickets: 263K
Shows: 70 -
Paul Simon & Sting, On Stage Together (2014-15)
Gross: $44.1M
Tickets: 355K
Shows: 34 -
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw, Soul2Soul Tour (2000)
Gross: $47.8M
Tickets: 969K
Shows: 65 -
Backstreet Boys & New Kids on the Block, NKOTBSB Tour (2011-12)
Image Credit: David Surowiecki/Getty Images Gross: $48.5M
Tickets: 708K
Shows: 61 -
Billy Joel & Elton John, Face to Face 2003 (2003)
Gross: $48.9M
Tickets: 422K
Shows: 24 -
Jay-Z & Ye, Watch the Throne Tour (2011-12)
Gross: $49.9M
Tickets: 399K
Shows: 33 -
Billy Joel & Elton John, Face to Face 1994 (1994)
Gross: $53.2M
Tickets: 1.1M
Shows: 21 -
Reba McEntire & George Strait, 2010-11 Tour (2010-11)
Gross: $55M
Tickets: 682K
Shows: 45 -
Billy Joel & Elton John, Face to Face 2001 (2001)
Gross: $58.9M
Tickets: 570K
Shows: 31 -
Carole King & James Taylor, Troubadour Reunion Tour (2010)
Image Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Gross: $62.3M
Tickets: 693K
Shows: 54 -
Aerosmith & KISS, Rocksimus Maximus Tour (2003)
Gross: $64.2M
Tickets: 856K
Shows: 58 -
Billy Joel & Elton John, Face to Face 2002 (2002)
Gross: $66M
Tickets: 613K
Shows: 34 -
Def Leppard & Journey, The Summer Stadium Tour 2024 (2024)
Gross: $68.4M
Tickets: 462K
Shows: 14 -
Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake, Legends of the Summer Stadium Tour (2013)
Gross: $69.8M
Tickets: 623K
Shows: 14 -
Billy Joel & Elton John, Face to Face 2009 (2009)
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Gross: $90.2M
Tickets: 719K
Shows: 32 -
Fall Out Boy, Green Day & Weezer, The Hella Mega Tour (2021-22)
Gross: $92.2M
Tickets: 967K
Shows: 28 -
Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin & Pitbull, The Trilogy Tour (2023-24)
Gross: $92.9M
Tickets: 566K
Shows: 43 -
Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw, Brothers of the Sun Tour (2012)
Image Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Gross: $96.5M
Tickets: 1.1M
Shows: 23 -
Def Leppard & Journey 2018 Tour (2018)
Gross: $97.1M
Tickets: 1M
Shows: 60 -
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw, Soul2Soul: The World Tour (2017-18)
Gross: $100.3M
Tickets: 1.2M
Shows: 107 -
Beyoncé & Jay-Z, On the Run Tour (2014)
Gross: $109.6M
Tickets: 980K
Shows: 21 -
Faith Hill & Tim McGraw, Soul2Soul II Tour (2006-07)
Gross: $141.2M
Tickets: 1.7M
Shows: 118 -
Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe, The Stadium Tour (2022)
Gross: $173.5M
Tickets: 1.3M
Shows: 35 -
Beyoncé & Jay-Z, On the Run II Tour (2018)
Image Credit: Larry Busacca/PW18/Getty Images Gross: $253.5M
Tickets: 2.2M
Shows: 48 -
Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Grand National Tour (2025)
Image Credit: Cassidy Meyers Gross: $256.4M
Tickets: 1.1M
Shows: 23
