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 There were 50,844,461 searches for the top 100 most popular artists' tour dates over the past 12 months via Stereoboard.
Oasis obviously continued to take up those virtual column inches with one of the biggest reunions of the decade, but the return no-one saw coming was Lily Allen, who raised eyebrows the world over with her tea-spilling, banger-filled new record.
Luke Combs proved that country's time in the mainstream is far from over, and Ariana Grande announced she was returning to the road, but the news was bittersweet. Find out why below, while checking out our Top 50 tours of 2025.
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1. Oasis
No, we didn't forget to update the chart from 2024, Oasis have topped it for the second year running! Which just goes to show the staying power of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher's dedicated fanbase, who searched for tickets a whopping 4,694,003 times.
Their Live '25 reunion tour saw them play stadium shows in the UK, Ireland, North and South America, Australia, Japan and South Korea in 2025.
Oasis came up in the early '90s, releasing their debut album, 'Definitely Maybe', in 1994. Fans were treated to six more studio albums before they called it a day in 2009, releasing their final record 'Dig Out Your Soul' the year prior. Since parting ways, both men have enjoyed solo success.
Estimated ticket searches in 2025: 4,694,003
Photo: Simon Emmett
2. Coldplay
We've got more repeat visitors to the chart in the form of Marmite band Coldplay, who've risen to second place for 2025, having come in at number three last year, up from their number five spot in 2023 and closer to the top spot they occupied in 2022. In fairness, the Music of the Spheres World Tour has been ongoing since it began back in 2022, so the fact that demand is still so high — 3,086,946 ticket searches to be exact — is testament to their drawing power.
This year saw them play 10 sold out shows at Wembley Stadium and two at Hull's Craven Park Stadium, as well as visiting North America, Abu Dhabi, India, Hong Kong and South Korea. The trek again found the English band making multiple sustainability commitments to cut direct emissions compared to their previous runs.
Despite touring under the 'Music of the Spheres' banner, named after their 2021 album, they have released another record since then, 2024's 'Moon Music'. However, with so little downtime the last few years, it's questionable if any new music is on the horizon, but Don't Let It Break Your Heart.
Estimated searches: 3,086,946
Photo: Anna Lee
3. Imagine Dragons
Last year saw Imagine Dragons make their chart debut at number eight, and this year they've climbed five places to come in at number three with more than double the amount of ticket searches for their shows. They took their Loom World Tour to stadiums across Europe this summer, with the run concluding with two huge London concerts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in late July.
The Grammy winners were hitting the road in support of their sixth studio album, 'Loom', which came out in June 2024 and which they previously supported with shows in North America, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Japan and Vietnam.
This year, the only new material we've seen from the Las Vegas band has come in the form of Dare U, a collaboration with NLE Choppa that arrived in January. They followed that up with 'Reflections (From The Vault of Smoke + Mirrors)' in February, a collection of previously unreleased demos from their 2015 sophomore album, 'Smoke + Mirrors'. Fingers crossed for more new tunes in 2026!
Estimated searches: 2,564,446
4. Linkin Park
Last year was a big one for Linkin Park, confirming their comeback in September while introducing new singer Emily Armstrong and live drummer Colin Brittain, as well as announcing a new album and supporting world tour.
'From Zero', their first record without the late vocalist Chester Bennington, came out in November 2024. It has earned them two nominations at the 68th annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on February 1: Best Rock Album and Best Rock Performance for the record's lead single, The Emptiness Machine.
With searches rising from 1,265,018 last year to 1, 913, 780 in 2025, it's clear that despite the mixed reception the new line-up initially received, in the end fans still want those tickets, and demand is only growing!
Estimated searches: 1,913,780
Photo: James Minchin III
5. Lana Del Rey
They say consistency is the key to success and Lana Del Rey is no exception, staying at the same midway point on the Top 10 of the chart as last year, though her number of ticket searches has increased from 1,351, 433 in 2024 to 1,555, 788 in 2025.
The award-winning American singer-songwriter spent this summer touring stadiums in the UK and Ireland, with the run including two nights at London's Wembley Stadium.
Del Rey's latest album is 2023's 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd'. Late last year she announced that she would be following it up with 'The Right Person Will Stay' in May. However, in the summer she informed fans via an Instagram story that the record's release date and title had changed, but has still not provided an update on when we can expect it or what it's now called. As always, Del Rey is going at her own pace and we just have to sit in hope.
Estimated searches: 1,555,788
Photo: Neil Krug
6. Lily Allen
We won't call it a comeback, as although Lily Allen hadn't put out any new music since 2018's 'No Shame' when she released one of the most talked about albums of 2025, 'West End Girl', she'd spent a big part of the last few years appearing in West End plays The Pillowman and 2:22 A Ghost Story, the latter earning her a nomination for Best Actress at the 2022 Olivier Awards.
The English multi-hyphenate will be taking her new record on the road twice in the UK next year. Her spring UK tour of theatres sold out in record time, with demand so high she promptly announced a summer UK and Ireland arena tour, which will follow a relatively short run across North America in April.
In a trailblazing move, Allen is currently in talks to adapt her new album into a West End play. She revealed the news while on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, but kept her cards close to her chest: "The ink is not dry, is that what they say? Something like that? But, you know, I'm definitely having some conversations with people about it. It's very exciting."
Estimated searches: 1,353,248
Photo: Charlie Denis
7. Tate McRae
This was a great year for Tate, with the Canadian singer, songwriter and dancer releasing her third album 'So Close To What' — which picked up four stars from us and hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the US (a first for her)— and supporting it with the Miss Possessive Tour.
She played arenas across the UK and Europe in the spring and early summer, with the North American leg following later in the summer and running into fall.
As if that wasn't already enough, this November she released a deluxe version of her latest record featuring five extra tracks, including Nobody's Girl and Tit For Tat, the latter of which is rumoured to be about her break-up with The Kid Laroi and a clapback to his song A Cold Play.
Estimated searches: 1,178,777
Photo: Charlie Denis
8. Luke Combs
Country Music Award-winning North Carolina singer-songwriter Luke Combs is having a moment that, 11 years into the game, is well deserved.
As part of his summer European tour next year, he'll play three nights at London's Wembley Stadium and two shows apiece at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh and Slane Castle near Dublin.
In 2026 the country star will also release a new record, the follow-up to 2024's 'Fathers & Sons'. He's not yet confirmed a title or release date, but put out 'The Prequel' EP in October, confirming all three tracks would appear on the upcoming album, and the single Giving Her Away earlier in December. New music and tour dates in the same year? He's really spoiling us.
Estimated searches: 1,173,964
Photo: David Bergman
9. Ariana Grande
Good, bad, whatever the kind, there must be some kind of magic going on for the superstar that is Ariana Grande to find time in between filming and promoting Wicked and Wicked: For Good to plot her Eternal Sunshine Tour.
The Florida-born singer, songwriter and actress will head across North America next summer, playing three shows apiece in Oakland, Austin, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Boston, Montreal and Chicago, and five at both Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. She will follow that up with 10 nights at The O2 in London between August 15 and September 1, which will be her only shows in Europe. The tour is the Oscar nominee's first since the Sweetener Tour in 2019, but during her interview on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast she admitted it would be her last for a long time, "one last hurrah...for now!" It's no wonder more than a million fans were searching for tickets.
The tour takes its name from Grande's seventh album, 2024's 'Eternal Sunshine'. Always one to keep the fans nourished, she's released numerous deluxe versions of the record, some featuring new tracks, as well as live, a cappella and instrumental versions. In a world growing darker by the day, she truly is our eternal sunshine.
Estimated searches: 1,011,701
Photo: Katia Temkin
10. Beyoncé
Beyoncé was all about the road in 2025, taking her Cowboy Carter Tour to venues across North America in the spring and summer, either side of her six-night run at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and three shows at Stade De France in Paris, France in June.
The tour was in support of her 2024 album of the same name, which won Album Of The Year at the Grammy Awards, a milestone for the powerhouse vocalist after she was nominated but failed to win back in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2022. This year she also took home Best Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for II Most Wanted with Miley Cyrus.
With the tour in the bag and recently having unpinned her three 'Cowboy Carter' posts from Instagram, something she apparently did in between the release of that record ('act ii') and 'Renaissance' ('act i'), she has set the rumour mill in motion, with many speculating 'act iii' is on the horizon. Let the countdown commence.
Estimated searches: 936, 046
Where Did These Numbers Come From?
We looked at what fans were searching for on Google and crunched the numbers from our Google Ads account to bring you the definitive list of the hottest tickets sought in 2025.
We did this by analysing Stereoboard’s impression share, from millions of search queries, and extrapolated that data. That enabled us to estimate, to a high degree of accuracy, the total number of fans searching for ticket related terms on Google’s search engine for each artists’ UK tour throughout the past 12 months.
Collage photo credits: Oasis - Simon Emmett, Coldplay - Anna Lee, Linkin Park - Jimmy Fontaine, Lana Del Rey - Neil Krug, Lily Allen - Charlie Denis, Tate McRae - Charlie Denis, Luke Combs - Robby Klein, Ariana Grande - Katia Temkin, Beyoncé - Mason Poole
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