The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrapped their multi-year, multi-continent tour with the biggest business of their multi-decade career. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore , the Unlimited Love Tour sold 3.4 million tickets over 86 shows.
Among rock tours, it finishes as the third best-selling trek this decade, only behind Coldplay ’s Music of the Spheres World Tour and Elton John ’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour. Though not eligible for Boxscore reporting, the Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out this touring cycle with a performance tonight (Aug. 11) at the LA28 handover celebration at the Closing Ceremony of 2024 Olympics, where Paris passes the torch to the Chili Peppers’ hometown of Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Boxscore totals only include grosses for ticketed headline shows, whereas the Olympics performance is part of a larger televised event. The Unlimited Love Tour supported its namesake album, which was released in April 2022, as well as Return of the Dream Canteen , which followed in October of that year. Both sets led the Top Rock Albums chart, and the former crowned the all-genre Billboard 200 .
The Unlimited Love Tour kicked off on June 4, 2022 with a performance at Estadio de La Cartuja in Sevilla, Spain. That show launched a 12-show leg in Europe that sold 659,000 tickets. Next was 19 shows in the U.
S. and Canada, adding 807,000 tickets. That remains the highest-grossing and best-selling leg of the tour.
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