1989 World Tour
Taylor Swift's highest grossing tour, $250m revenue
Taylor Swift's highest attending tour, 2.3m attending
Highest grossing tour of 2015

Also brand deals with Diet Coke, Keds and Apple

On The Road Again Tour
2nd highest grossing tour of 2015
grossed $208 million
2 million attending

watch the full set

#3: James Patterson, Author
#4: Dr Phil McGraw, Personality
#4: Christiano Ronaldo, Athlete

What Now? Tour
Stadium/Arena Comedy Show
168 shows (2015-2016)
Grossed over $1 million per show
On track to be highest grossing comedy tour of all time

#7: Howard Stern, Radio Host
#8: Lionel Messi, Athlete

Adele Live 2016
gross $150 million
1.47 million attending

Fun fact, the tour was not nearly sold to its full potential capacity.
10 million people tried to buy tickets to the N-American leg.
750 thousand were available.

#10: Rush Limbaugh, Radio Host
#11: LeBron James, Athlete

Rebel Heart Tour
grossed $170 million
over a million attended

Also own clothing and fragrance brands

#13: Ellen DeGeneres, Personality

Anti World Tour
Following album Anti

Also brand deals with Dior, Puma, Samsung and Stance

The Garth Brooks World Tour
Official figures not available
But has been breaking records since it launched

#16: Roger Federer, Athlete

Rock or Bust World Tour
1.3 million attended
grossed $85 million

Halfway through the tour Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses replaced AC/DC's Brian Johnson as the band's frontman because of health reasons.

América Latina Olé Tour
1.3 million attended
Grossed $6 million per event

What's interesting about the Rolling Stones, is how few dates their tours have, but yet they are consistently at the top. Here's a post about it.

#19: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Actor

Magician, Las Vegas Residency at MGM Grand
Unconfirmed figures for 2016, but he's sold more tickets than any solo entertainer in history (over his career), with over 33 million tickets sold grossing over $4 billion total.

Las Vegas Residency
Calvin Harris plays over 100 DJ sets a year in Las Vegas.
He's been a top earner in the field since 2013.

#22: Diddy, musician
– but makes no money from touring
#23: Jackie Chan, actor

The River Tour, with The E Street Band
1.1 million tickets sold
grossed $266.5 million

Fun fact, with the E Street Band Springsteen holds the biggest Boxscore of the year when they grossed almost $20 million from just two shows in Dublin, Ireland. 160k people attended just those two shows in Croke Park.

One on One Tour
grossed $55 million from the first half of the tour

Purpose World Tour
gross $139 million
sells a lot of merch

Also Purpose the album was also one of the best selling albums of 2016.

The Big Revival Tour
Co-headlined with Jason Aldean, Eric Church and Miranda Lambert
for some of the events. Biggest country tour of 2015.

Also brand deals with Corona beer, Costa sunglasses, and Blue Chair Bay rum

#26: Novak Djokovic, athlete
#26: Kevin Durant, athlete
#30: Matt Damon, actor
#30: Ryan Seacrest, personality

iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour
grossed $152 million

The Weeknd had major singles in 2015
He's the first artist to simultaneously hold the top three spot on the Billboard Hot R&B Chart with Earned It, The Hills, and Can't Feel My Face.

The Formation World Tour
attended by 2.242 million
grossed $256 million

Beyoncé's Lemonade also came out and has been sold in over 600k copies.

#35: Gordon Ramsey, Chef
#36: Jay-Z, Musician
but didn't make money from music

Kill The Lights Tour
900k attended

Also brand deals with Miller Lite and Cabela's.

#37: Tom Cruise, Actor
#37: Phil Mickelson, Athlete
#37: Cam Newton, Athlete
#37: Jordan Spieth, Athlete
#42: Kim Kardashian, Personality
#43: Kobe Bryant, Athlete

The Drones World Tour
grossed $25 million

Also The Drones album

Sonic Highways World Tour AKA Broken Leg Tour
grossed $68 million

#46: Johnny Depp, actor

Interstates & Tailgates Tour
no information available

Also brand deals with Ford and own business
ventures like Love This Bar and Grill restaurant.

#48: Judy Sheindlin, Personality
#49: Lewis Hamilton, Athlete
#49: Jennifer Lawrence, Actress
#51: Tiger Woods, Athlete
#52: Eli Manning, Athlete
#53: Joe Flacco, Athlete

Made V.I.P Tour
no information available

Don't know these guys? They're the biggest band in Asia.
Boy band from Korea. See video for loud teen screams

#54: Tom Brady, Athlete
#54: Floyd Mayweather Jr., Athlete

Income comes from tour, syndication from Seinfeld
and web series Comedians in Cars getting Coffee

#58: Ben Affleck, actor
#58: Sofia Vergara, actress
#60: Rory McIlroy, athlete

Income comes from live performances
and also from having written the Lion King

watch full performance

#61: Russell Wilson, athlete

Dr Dre didn't do much touring, but Apple bought Beats
and he released an album in 2015

The Prismatic World Tour
almost 2 million people attended over 2 years
grossed over $200 million total

Also has brand deals with H&M, Claire's and CoverGirl

#63: Sebastian Vettel, athlete

I Don't Know Tour

also runs Florida beach resort, Margaritaville

Income from tour

All I Have – Las Vegas Residency
began in 2016
grossed over $35 million

Fun fact: one performance in August earned over $1 million,
which is Planet Hollywood's highest grossing show to date

Summer Sixteen Tour
grossed $65 million
over half a million attended

Also released two albums and has
brand deals with Nike, Sprite and Apple.

#70: Philip Rivers, athlete

Tour & Las Vegas Residency
116 performances in 2016

#71: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, athlete
#72: Rafael Nadal, athlete
#72: Neymar, athlete

We Were Here / Six String Circus Tour
performed for almost half a million people
grossed over $25 million

#75: Fernando Alonso, athlete
#77: Gareth Bale, athlete
#78: Marcell Dareus, athlete
#78: Vin Diesel, actor
#80: Peyton Manning, athlete
#80: Derrick Rose, athlete
#82: A.J. Green, athlete

Maroon V Tour
grossed $109.7 million
82 shows over 2 years

#82: Kei Nishikori, athlete

Turns out writing a song for Justin Bieber earns one some dollars.

25th Anniversary Tour

#86: Robert Downey Jr., actor
#86: James Harden, athlete
#86: Shah Rukh Khan, actor
#86: Melissa McCarthy, actress
#91: Usain Bolt, athlete
#92: Clayton Kershaw, athlete
#92: Dwayne Wade, athlete
#94: Akshay Kumar, actor

Las Vegas Residency
Six days a week – since 2001

They also managed some touring in 2016
(we're not sure how that's possible either)

#94: Brad Pitt, actor
#97: Carmelo Anthony, athlete
#97: Drew Brees, athlete
#99: Gisele Bundchen, model

Las Vegas Residency
grossed almost $30 million in 2016

She also has a series of fragrances and a mobile game in development.

They compile the list from June 2015, to June 2016. This is why we're seeing a lot of the acts with the biggest tours of 2015 high up on the list.

Figures come from various sources, including Nielsen, Pollstar, and from the stars themselves.