Justin Bieber’s Australian, NZ dates grossed over $22m

Justin Bieber’s five Australian and New Zealand shows last month grossed over US $22 million, according to Billboard magazine’s Boxscore.

It grossed a total of $22,152,047 with an overall attendance of 221,208.

• The biggest show was in Sydney, at the ANZ Stadium on March 15, with a crowd of 65,838 and total box office revenues of $6,224, 571.
• The Melbourne show (March 10 at Etihad Stadium) grossed $5,835,714 and drew 54,821 fans.
• The third largest show on the Aussie leg of his Purpose world tour was at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium. The crowd numbered 41,000 and grossed $4,180,157.
• The March 18 show at Auckland’s Mt. Smart Stadium totalled $3,591,944 with a ticket count of 35,420.
• Bieber’s first show here, in Perth, was the smallest. There 24,129 fans out on March 6, and the gross was $2,769,661.

The Australian/NZ shows were organised by AEG Presents, Concerts West and Frontier Touring. Bieber was joined by Martin Garrix and Sheppard.

Sheppard, still buzzing over the Sydney show being “the biggest venue we’ve ever played” and the video for their Keep Me Crazy getting 1 million Spotify plays in a week, said of the tour, “The whole experience was unbelievable.”

DJ Garrix got his first dose of real pop fan hysteria. He told Most Requested Live: “The fun thing about this tour is I have no idea what to expect.

“If I do a Martin Garrix headline show I know it will be lots of Garrix fans etc., but this time I was nervous, like, ’Shit, it will only be lots of Bieber fans they’re only waiting for Justin Bieber’.

“I did the first song in Perth and the moment I dropped my first song, the energy the crowd gave us, it was super crazy. The entire tour was super fun, and maybe [I might do it] again in the future.”

The Purpose world tour, which started off in March 2016 and covered 82 cities in North America and Europe, has so far grossed almost $200 million. This figure comes from 2.2 million tickets sold at 122 shows.

This year the tour picked up again in late February in Latin America before heading to Australia/NZ. It’s currently in South America. The ten shows to date in 2017 grossed $40 million from 466,000 tickets sold.