, and now more than ever, with his musical arrangements. Just one year after wrapping his last trek, he’s back in arenas with The Solo Tour, on stage by himself playing his greatest hits, solo acoustic.According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the first leg of The Solo Tour earned $39.3 million and sold 251,000 tickets across 19 shows in March and April.
On average, The Solo Tour earned $2.1 million and sold 13,234 tickets per show. The latter number surpasses last year’s 11,963 to become the second biggest per-show attendance count of Mayer’s career, just missing 2017’s The Search for Everything Tour . The former is the biggest per-show gross of his career, up 28% from last year’s Sob Rock Tour .
Comparing shows market-by-market on Mayer’s 2022 and 2023 runs, The Solo Tour still over-performed. While he downsized from two shows to one in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Seattle, those cities maintained strong numbers, with Seattle dipping just 19% in total gross, despite playing half the shows.