Red-headed pop superstar Ed Sherran has officially broken record sales in Australia; with over one million tickets sold, his 2018 tour has ranked the highest selling single tour in the country’s history.
According to the numbers released by Frontier Touring, Sheeran has broken a 32-year old record set by Dire Straits. The British rock band sold 950,000 tickets in Australia and New Zealand. In the process, he set venue records for highest recorded cumulative attendance at Optus Stadium, Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, Etihad and Suncorp, NZ’s Mt Smart Stadium, and Forsyth Barr Stadium. Frontier head Michael Gudinski told Music Feeds that selling one million tickets is “simply phenomenal” and Sheeran is “truly gifted.”
It’s no surprise that the pop star is breaking records around the world. Sheeran’s 2017 record, ÷, captured the No. 1 spot on pop charts in several nations. The album, as well as both singles “Perfect” and “Shape of You” peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart and took the #1 spot on Australia’s ARIA album chart. Additionally, ÷ hit the top charts across 20 territories including the U.K., across Europe, and throughout Asia. That popularity is also reinforced by data in the streaming world – he is now the second most listened to artist on Spotify with over 45 million monthly listeners.
Sheeran’s Australian tour began this past Friday, March 2 in Perth and will continue throughout the country this month, wrapping up on March 21 in Brisbane. The swing through that part of the world continues with six dates in New Zealand, a show in the Phillipines and Japan, followed by a run through Europe, making stops in Ireland, the U.K., Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Poland. His North American tour will pick up this August in California and will cross the country to the East Coast, ending in November
The full set of Sheeran’s tour dates are listed below.
Ed Sheeran World Tour
Visit Ticket Club to find tickets to his sold out performances across the globe
March 2 – Perth, Australia
March 3 – Perth, Australia
March 7 – Adelaide, Australia
March 9 – Melbourne, Australia
March 10 – Melbourne, Australia
March 11 – Melbourne, Australia
March 12 – Melbourne, Australia
March 15 – Sydney, Australia
March 16 – Sydney, Australia
March 17 – Sydney, Australia
March 20 – Brisbane, Australia
March 21 – Brisbane, Australia
March 24 – Auckland, NZ
March 25 – Auckland, NZ
March 26 – Mt Smart Stadium
March 29 – Dunedin, NZ
March 31 – Dunedin, NZ
April 1 – Dunedin, NZ
April 8 – Manila, Philippines
April 11 – Osaka, Japan
April 13 – Tokyo, Japan
April 14 – Tokyo, Japan
May 4 – Cork, Ireland
May 5 – Cork, Ireland
May 6 – Cork, Ireland
May 9 – 2018 Belfast, UK
May 12 – Galway, Ireland
May 13 – Galway, Ireland
May 16 – Dublin, Ireland
May 18 – Dublin, Ireland
May 19 – Dublin, Ireland
May 24 – Manchester, UK
May 25 – Manchester, UK
May 26 – Manchester, UK
May 27 – Manchester, UK
June 1 – Glasgow, UK
June 2 – Glasgow, UK
June 3 – Glasgow, UK
June 8 – Newcastle, UK
June 9 – Glasgow, UK
June 10 – Glasgow, UK
June 14 – London, UK
June 15 – London, UK
June 16 – London, UK
June 17 – London, UK
June 21 – Cardiff, UK
June 22 – Cardiff, UK
June 23 – Cardiff, UK
June 24 – Cardiff, UK
June 28 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 29– Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 1 – Werchter, Belgium
July 6 – Paris, France
July 7 – Paris, France
July 10 – Gothenburg, Sweden
July 11 – Gothenburg, Sweden
July 14 – Stockholm, Sweden
July 19 – Berlin, Germany
July 22 – Essen, Germany
July 25 – Hamburg, Germany
July 29 – Munich, Germany
July 30 – Munich, Germany
August 3 – Zurich, Switzerland
August 4 – Zurich, Switzerland
August 7 – Vienna, Austria
August 8 – Vienna, Austria
August 11 – Warsaw, Poland
August 12 – Warsaw, Poland
August 18 – Pasadena, CA
August 21 – San Francisco, CA
August 25 – Seattle, WA
August 30 – Toronto, ON
September 6 – St. Louis, MO
September 8 – Detroit, MI
September 14 – Foxboro, MA
September 15 – Foxboro, MA
September 21 – East Rutherford, NJ
September 22 – East Rutherford, NJ
September 27 – Philadelphia, PA
September 30 – Pittsburgh, PA
October 4 – Chicago, IL
October 6 – Nashville, TN
October 13 – Kansas City, MO
October 17 – Fargo, ND
October 20 – Minneapolis, MN
October 23 – Milwaukee, WI
October 27 – Dallas, TX
October 31 – New Orleans, LA
November 3 – Houston, TX
November 7 – Tampa, FL
November 10 – Atlanta, GA
