The Rolling Stones made a cool £24 million from ticket sales for their short 50 And Counting reunion tour late last year, reports Billboard.
The figures show the Stones sold 31,755 seats for the two nights at London’s O2 Arena in November, while later gigs in Brooklyn, New York and Newark, New Jersey pushed the figure to over 350,000.
The band came in for criticism after announcing their comeback shows when tickets were priced at a minimum of £90, with some deluxe packages costing as much as £950.
In a wonderful show of old-school rock n roll bravado, Keith Richards told BBC 6Music last October that reports of a £16m profit for the legendary group ‘sounded about right’.
“I haven’t looked at the figures – numbers can get greatly exaggerated,” he remarked. “I just wanna do some shows and I don’t want to charge over the bloody top. I’m a bit out of the loop with showbiz. £16m sounds about right to us.”