Doug Thornton, an executive overseeing more than 230 stadiums and arenas for SMG, told Billboard that “people that go to a stadium show now, have a better opportunity to see the artist because of the size and quality of the screens…and Coldplay’s show is the best I’ve ever seen. La canción fue interpretada por primera vez en The Late Late Show con James Corden, junto con 'Adventure of a Lifetime', el 12 de noviembre de 2015. The success of such tours throughout 2017 has been credited to expanding capabilities for arena shows, which constituted a large number of Coldplay’s itinerary. It’s not just the music that is obviously great and the fact that Coldplay manage to make the songs sound even better live in most cases, it is the whole atmosphere that is very special.
In second place is The Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang Tour and its $558.2 million gross between 2005 through 2007. I was saw Coldplay on their A Head Full Of Dreams tour in Munich and it was one of the best, no THE best concert I have been to so far. The all-time highest grossing tour remains U2’s 360 Tour, which tallied $736.4 million during its run from 2009 through 2011. The tour was praised for its extensive visual productions including laser shows, confetti cannons, pyrotechnics and interactive light-up wristbands. A Head Full of Dreams will surpass the latter total early this summer and land higher in the mix by the tour’s finale.
10 highest grossing tour is The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge trek (1994-1995) with 320 million in sales. Considering Coldplay seem to be past a lot of that now, the film’s reluctance to dig any deeper is noticeable.Billboard's Touring Awards: See the Full Winners ListĪpproximately 5,389,586 million fans saw Coldplay in the year-and-a-half long tour, Live Nation reports, their biggest and longest outing to date. Currently the highest grossing tour on record is U2’s 360° Tour (2009-2011) that earned 736 million during its run. A period of depression following fifth album Mylo Xyloto is mentioned and instantly forgotten, as is addiction circa X&Y. A brief moment early on when drummer Will was kicked out clearly still stings, but isn’t lingered upon. While A Head Full Of Dreams paints a portrait of a largely harmonious band, allusions to darker times are made and moved away from frustratingly quickly. But Whitecross crafts a compelling account of a man of both wide-eyed sincerity and sharp, knowing wit, who’s as prone to spouting new-agey truisms as he is delivering self-deprecating potshots (“I think everything we’ve done is shit, that’s why I keep trying to do new things,” he says at one point).
Despite his tabloid ubiquity - largely thanks to his relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow - he’s far from a swaggering rock ’n’ roll personality. Martin, particularly, comes across well on screen. If it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between voices of the backing group, it rarely matters - this is the band as a unit, telling their story together. The storytelling comes through a patchwork of audio interviews, in a similar style to Asif Kapadia’s Amy. Where concert footage from their most recent tour shows how far Coldplay have come, the early years are the most interesting - their first gig as Starfish at The Laurel Tree pub in Camden, their ‘photo shoot’ in a Tesco photobooth, being hand-picked by Steve Lamacq for a Maida Vale studio session months before their debut Parachutes dropped. It’s not a warts-and-all rock doc, but a celebration of the band.
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