Guns N’Roses grossed $51.23m from ANZ tour

Guns N’ Roses’ Australia and New Zealand leg of the Not In This Lifetime… Tour grossed $51.23 million (US$38.29 million), according to Billboard magazine’s Hot Tours list.

The eight shows in seven cities between February 2 to 21 were through TEG Dainty, and drew a total of 341,511 fans.

The Australasian run began in New Zealand, at the 34,500-capacity Westpac Stadium in Wellington (Feb 2) and Auckland’s 30,000 capacity Western Springs Stadium (Feb 4). Both were sell outs.

The first Australian show, at Brisbane’s QSAC Stadium on Feb 7 drew 39,459 fans.

The two shows at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, Feb 10 and 11, drew a combined 84,277. These grossed $12.31 million (US$9.2 million).

According to Billboard, the Sydney gross was the fourth highest on the band’s worldwide tour to date. The others were two shows last July in MetLife Stadium in the New York/New Jersey ($11.6 million), and in November as part of the Latin American trek, the Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires ($11 million) and Allianz Parque in São Paulo ($10.7 million).

The other local shows were at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (capacity: 100,024), Adelaide Oval (capacity 53,500) and Perth’s Domain Stadium (capacity: 43,500). The list does not indicate if all the Australian shows sold out.

The Not In This Lifetime… Tour’s overall gross that now reaches US$230 million since it launched in the United States in April 2016.

This figure does not include the shows in Singapore, Bangkok and Dubai that the band played after Australia.

Before the tour resumes on May 27 in Shane Castle in Ireland, there was heavy speculation that the semi-original lineup slipped into the studios to cut tracks for a possible new studio album.

The UK and European dates which follow hit 18 more cities, after which Guns N’Roses return to North America for 15 more shows from July 27. In September their schedule seems them in South America.