Chart-Topping Titans: Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny Dominate Midyear Tours

Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny, frequent collaborators, emerged as the top contenders in the first half of 2026's highest-grossing tours, trading places until the final count.

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Chart-Topping Titans: Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny Dominate Midyear Tours

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Friends become chart foes as the collaborators staged the two biggest tours of the first half of the 2026 chart year.

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Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga perform onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on February 08, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. — **Bad Bunny** and **Lady Gaga** perform onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.

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<em>Billboard</em> has published its midyear Boxscore report, celebrating the biggest tours, venues and concert promoters, worldwide, of 2026&rsquo;s first half. Across six months, some of the biggest artists in the world traded places at the top until one emerged victorious. Watch the video below to see the midyear Top Tours chart take shape, from Oct. 1, 2025, to March 31.

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In the first few weeks of the tracking period, the No. 1 spot changed hands a few times. The <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/eagles/">**Eagles**</a> were in the middle of its Sphere residency, <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/paul-mccartney/">**Paul McCartney**</a> was fresh back on the road with another leg of Got Back and <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/chris-brown/">**Chris Brown**</a> was playing the final shows of last year&rsquo;s Breezy Bowl. Of the three, McCartney had the most longevity, ultimately extending his lead by almost $50 million over <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/shakira/">**Shakira**</a>, **Lady Gaga** and <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/travis-scott/">**Travis Scott**</a> by the end of November.






But no one can claim longevity in the 2026 midyear period like **Lady Gaga**. After starting The Mayhem Ball in July (she finished at No. 12 on the year-end 2025 Top Tours ranking), she continued the trek&rsquo;s European leg in October and November, with three continents left to hit before the tracking window closed. Her December dates in Australia put her on top, while her fiercest competitor emerged.






**Bad Bunny** kicked off the Deb&iacute; Tirar M&aacute;s Fotos World Tour on Nov. 21, but was in the top three, behind **Gaga** and **McCartney**, within a month. His eight shows at Mexico City&rsquo;s Estadio GNP Seguros did heavy lifting, grossing $88 million from 518,000 tickets sold.






His sold-out stadium tour continued to pack a punch, eventually overtaking **Gaga** by mid-January and building a distance of more than $40 million between them. They both took a brief break to each win a couple of Grammys and perform together at the Super Bowl Halftime show before resuming in mid-February.

**Bad Bunny&rsquo;s** tour went on hiatus after a March 1 show in Sydney, while **Gaga** continued on through the end of March, continually inching closer and closer to the top. In the final three days of the tracking period, she regained the top position and finished with $236.2 million, 3% ahead of **Bad Bunny&rsquo;s** $230.3 million. They are the first pair of acts to each gross more than $200 million in the midyear period, with **Gaga** setting a midyear record for the highest grossing tour over <a href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/u2/">**U2**</a>&rsquo;s $231.4 million from 2024.






Both acts played more dates after midyear closed, with **Gaga** wrapping The Mayhem Ball on April 13 at Madison Square Garden. **Bad Bunny** picked back up in Barcelona on May 22, with more than 20 more shows to play throughout Europe before closing the tour in July. Both acts remain major contenders for the 2026 year-end roundup.

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