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Harry Styles performs at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. Styles wrapped his world tour up by coming in at No. 1 on the Pollstar Live 75, averaging about 63,000 tickets sold over the past 30 days. 

Harry Styles performs at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. Styles wrapped his world tour up by coming in at No. 1 on the Pollstar Live 75, averaging about 63,000 tickets sold over the past 30 days.  (Chris Pizzello, Invision/AP)

Well, we’ve talked about it enough over the past eight months, so it seems only fitting that we talk about it one more time: Remember that Harry Styles tour that keeps topping the live touring charts each month? It ended! Can you believe it? Me neither.

According to Pollstar, the trek, which began on Sept. 4, 2021, in Las Vegas finally came to an end on July 22, in Italy. According to what Pollstar called “Styles’ team” (so take that for what it’s worth), the tour finished as the fourth highest grossing tour of all time, taking in about $600 million. And yet, even though this will most likely be the week we bid adieu to Styles in the touring roundup, he can’t help himself when it comes to appearing on the Live 75 chart, which tracks active tours by the average tickets sold for shows that happened over the last 30 days, one last time.

Indeed, the mainstay on that chart wrapped his tour up by coming in at No. 1 on the Live 75, averaging about 63,000 tickets sold over the last 30 days. Ed Sheeran – who you have to think will take Styles’ place atop this chart next month – was close behind the pop star, averaging about 61,000 tickets sold over the last 30 days. Beyonce was the highest woman on the chart, coming in at No. 4, averaging about 49,000 tickets. Perhaps the most surprising arrival on the list? Matchbox Twenty, who finished at No. 10 with about 12,000 tickets sold over the last 30 days.

I cannot confirm or deny that I was one of those people buying those tickets.

As for new tours announced recently … we are creeping toward winter mode now as August is nearly halfway over and artists are readying December/January announcements. Before we get there, however, the fall has something to say about its slate of shows and that lineup is led this month by the Brian Jonestown Massacre, who announced they’ll be hitting the road for 39 dates ranging from Sept. 17 to Nov. 4. While the final two stops will be in Mexico, the other 37 will take the rockers across both Canada and the U.S.

Outside of the U.S., a Beatle will return to the road as Sir Paul McCartney announced last week that he’s firing up the “Got Back” tour he began all the way back in April 2022 in North America. This time, the singer will make the trip to Australia for a quick run of six dates in October and November. Back in the States, a trio of hip-hop mainstays recently announced their plans to hit the road together in September as YG, Tyga and Saweetie will team up for a run that looks to conclude Nov. 22 in Inglewood, Calif.

And then there’s country music superstar Tim McGraw, who last week announced that he’ll unleash a 33-city tour in 2024 on the heels of a new record, “Standing Room Only,” which is set to be released Aug. 25. The hitmaker will take out Carly Pearce as his direct supporting act and the duo will begin their journey on March 14 in Jacksonville, Fla., before ultimately winding things down on June 27, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that Taylor Swift will be available to pop up and sing one of her most beloved songs named after the headliner because she’ll be fully engrossed in the European run of her Eras tour at the same time. Ah, well.

Anyway, happy concert-ing!

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