Rocker and the E Street Band just completed the most successful trek in their touring history, and propelled Springsteen into the $2 billion touring club

Bruce Springsteen’s just-completed world tour with the E Street Band has proven to be the most successful of the rocker’s career with a gross of more than $700 million.

The tour, which spanned 129 shows and two continents from 2023 to 2025 (with a peptic ulcer postponement in between), made almost $730 million over its run, more than doubling the $347 million earned by Springsteen’s previous top-grossing tour, the Wrecking Ball tour in 2012 and 2013, Billboard reports

The trek also sold 4.9 million tickets across its dates, good for a nightly gate of 37,900 tickets and $5.7 million on average per show, both the best totals of Springsteen’s touring career. 

Critics will point to the fact that tickets to Springsteen’s latest tour cost more than his previous treks, but Billboard throws cold water on that theory, noting that ticket prices jumped 29 percent (or $115 to $149) from the previous E Street tour in 2017 to his latest jaunt, a percentage that is “well below the typical uptick for other arena and stadium acts, legacy or contemporary.”

Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023-2025 Tour, which wrapped earlier this month in Italy, also became one of the top 10 highest-grossing tours of all time, joining the likes of Taylor Swift’s the Eras Tour and jaunts by U2, Coldplay, and Ed Sheeran in a small club of artists that have grossed over $700 million on a single tour.

Over the course of his entire touring career, as a solo artist and with the E Street Band, Springsteen has grossed over $2.3 billion, one of only five artists to reach that number, Billboard added.

What Are the Odds, J Money's third studio album, drops this August.

There’s a high probability that Jorja Smith has new music coming this summer. The British singer revealed plans for her What Are the Odds LP on Thursday (July 2), with the album set to arrive on Aug. 21 via FAMM.

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Smith reunites with producer P2J — who served as a primary collaborator on her 2023 album Falling or Flying — for the entirety of the project. J Money and P2J will continue to build on the inventive U.K. garage sound Smith has been exploring, alongside a mix of grime and house.

 

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“This album came together really naturally. There was never a big plan; it was just me making music that felt right in the moment,” Smith tells Billboard. “Working with P2J, we started experimenting with different sounds, pulling from U.K. garage, grime and house (funky house, Afro house) and it all grew from there.”

She continues: “The music feels uplifting, but the lyrics can be a bit sad at times. They’re about growing up, love, loss, friendships and figuring things out as I go. I trusted my instincts with this one, and I think you can hear that throughout the record.”

Smith kicked off the album’s rollout in May with the self-assuring “What’s Done Is Done,” and it continues on Thursday (July 2) with a second single, “Alive,” which finds the R&B singer joining forces with Afrobeats pioneer WizKid. The duo basks in the love-drunk euphoria of the honeymoon phase of a bubbling relationship and heads to Paris for the visual.

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“Making this with P2J and WizKid felt really easy,” Smith adds of the collab. “We wrote and recorded it together in London. I think we captured that feeling when you’re at the beginning of something with someone and everything feels exciting. I’ve always loved WizKid’s music and the way he’s opened so many doors for Afrobeats around the world, so it feels really special and a big honor to have a song with him.”

What Are the Odds serves as Jorja Smith’s third studio album and contains 12 tracks. Outside of WizKid, the only other feature comes from grime artist Devlin.

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When the project lands on Aug. 21, Smith will hit the stage later that night at London’s All Points East, as she’ll be co-headlining the Victoria Park show with Tems. 2026 has already been a busy year for J Money, who served as a musical guest on the debut season of Saturday Night Live UK in April.

The 29-year-old also collaborated with Mobb Deep’s Havoc for a remix of her “Blue Lights” classic and lent “Price of It All” to Amazon MGM Studios’ Bait soundtrack.

Find the What Are the Odds cover art and tracklist below.

What Are the Odds tracklist:

  1. “For Life”
  2. “What Are the Odds”
  3. “What’s Done Is Done”
  4. “This City” (feat. Devlin)
  5. “Pretend”
  6. “The Way It Was”
  7. “I Lied, You Lied”
  8. “Dancing”
  9. “Alive” (feat. Wizkid)
  10. “Young Heart”
  11. “Make It Your Home”
  12. “When It Gets Like That”
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