“Billboard” posted a list of the country artists who’ve grossed the most money touring, and only one person has passed the billion-dollar mark.<\/p>\n
Kenny Chesney has done over 950 shows, put almost 18 million butts in seats, and grossed over $1.17 BILLION since 1995.<\/p>\n
Last year’s tour alone grossed $135 million.<\/p>\n
1. Kenny Chesney . . . $1.17 BILLION<\/p>\n
2. George Strait . . . $734 million<\/p>\n
3. Luke Bryan . . . $498 million<\/p>\n
4. Tim McGraw . . . $434 million<\/p>\n
5. Shania Twain . . . $421 million<\/p>\n
6. Toby Keith . . . $398 million<\/p>\n
7. Jason Aldean . . . $363 million<\/p>\n
8. Rascal Flatts . . . $361 million<\/p>\n
9. Taylor Swift . . . $339 million. They only included her country tours.<\/p>\n
10. Brad Paisley . . . $335 million<\/p>\n
The rest of the Top 20 are:<\/p>\n
Eric Church, Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, Morgan Wallen, who’s already up to $278 million, Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, Zac Brown Band, Alan Jackson, Luke Combs, and Chris Stapleton at $224 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Billboard” posted a list of the country artists who’ve grossed the most money touring, and only one person has passed the billion-dollar mark.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":86109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[1582,1737,1404,688,1238,511,506,525,1317,1587,2178],"class_list":["post-93966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billboard","tag-brad-paisley","tag-george-strait","tag-jason-aldean","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-luke-bryan","tag-rascal-flatts","tag-shania-twain","tag-taylor-swift","tag-tim-mcgraw","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:50:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/08\/only-one-country-artist-has-grossed-over-1-billion-touring\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}