{"id":1236213528,"date":"2026-04-02T13:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?post_type=pmc_list&p=1236213528"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:04:58","slug":"top-tours-2006","status":"publish","type":"pmc_list","link":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/top-tours-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxscore Flashback: The Top 10 Tours of 2006, By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\tThe beginning of 2026 has been dominated by 2016 nostalgia, but on Billboard.com, we\u2019re supersizing it and going back to 2006. We\u2019ve already looked back at some of the most iconic songs<\/a> and trends<\/a> from that year, but now, we\u2019re looking at the biggest concert tours from 20 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tThe touring industry of 2006 was quite different from the current landscape. In the last two decades, ticket prices have surged and Boxscore chart-toppers have diversified, but there are some constants, as Kenny Chesney<\/a>, Pearl Jam<\/a> and Trans-Siberian Orchestra<\/a>, among others, continue to rank among the biggest acts on stage well into the 2020s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tBeyond the top 10, Mariah Carey<\/a> landed at No. 25 on The Adventures of Mimi trek. That tour supported the previous year\u2019s The Emancipation of Mimi<\/em>, which famously returned Carey to the top of the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> with the decade\u2019s biggest song, \u201cWe Belong Together.\u201d Ranked by gross revenue from ticket sales, that tour\u2019s $26.4 million take, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, wouldn\u2019t have cracked the top 100 in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tThough a near-constant presence in the upper reaches of this decade\u2019s Top Tours ranking, Coldplay<\/a> was, respectably, No. 19 in 2006 in the middle of Twisted Logic Tour. On the Music of the Spheres World Tour, the band has been in the top five of the year-end list consecutively from 2022 to 2025, topping the tally for each of the last two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tWhile concert grosses have ballooned over the years, ratings for network television have shrunk. Back in 2006, American Idol<\/em> was the biggest show in the United States, hovering around 30 million viewers per episode. Its annual spinoff tour featuring that season\u2019s top contestants was a consistent draw, ranking at No. 13 with $35.3 million and 647,000 tickets sold over 59 shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tKeep reading for more info on the top 10 touring acts of 2006, according to Billboard Boxscore\u2019s year-end chart from 20 years ago. The figures below only account for the shows these artists played in the 2006 chart year. Some of these tours began in 2005 or continued in 2007, building upon these grosses and attendance figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tJust missing out? Billy Joel<\/a> and Rascal Flatts<\/a> at Nos. 11 and 12, respectively. The former grossed just under $50 million and the latter barely surpassed one million tickets sold — 1,000,036 to be exact.<\/p>\n\n\n


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