Touring Data reports $42.3m gross for Jay-Z's Yankee Stadium shows

Touring Data posted the figures on 10 October. The three shows ran on 10, 11 and 12 July at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx under the JAŸ-Z30 billing, marking 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 years of The Blueprint.

The $42,290,766 is gross ticket revenue. Billboard has not released official Boxscore figures, so the total comes from Touring Data. It averages about $14.1m and 45,645 tickets a night, at an average ticket price of $308.84. Staging costs and the shares paid to promoters and the venue are not included, so the figure does not reflect what Jay-Z took home.

Billionaires.Africa reported that early industry estimates had put the gross at $25m to $30m, based on ticket prices from $183 to $1,000 a seat, before Touring Data's figures landed.

Records at the gate

Roc Nation said the second night sold 45,832 tickets, the most tickets ever sold for a concert at Yankee Stadium. That beat the 44,916 tickets sold on opening night, a figure promoter Live Nation gave NBC's Today show.

The Source said the second show reportedly set a record for the most-attended US concert by a solo artist with 45,645 tickets, the same figure Touring Data gives as the average across the three nights. That conflicts with Roc Nation's 45,832 for the second night. The Source also said the run made Jay-Z the second solo rapper to gross more than $10m from a single concert, joining Ye, and that opening night generated $14.097m, his highest-grossing concert to date.

The final night was disrupted when hundreds of people without tickets forced their way through several entrances, according to the Yankees, Roc Nation and Live Nation. The show began after midnight. "There's 10,000 people outside," Jay-Z told the crowd.

London, Paris and Los Angeles

The total covers only the New York shows. It does not include London shows on 4 and 5 September or a Paris date on 23 September. The tour is scheduled to conclude with two Los Angeles shows at SoFi Stadium on 23 and 24 October. Producer Young Guru told AllHipHop that more shows were planned in Los Angeles.

Billionaires.Africa estimated the wider month-long campaign generated more than $100m in commercial activity across New York, though no formal economic impact study has been published. HotNewHipHop noted that Kanye West's SoFi Stadium show this year leads the list of most profitable hip-hop concerts. Reasonable Doubt also reached number one on Billboard's vinyl chart, his first chart-topper on that ranking, and the album appeared on five Billboard charts, four in the top ten.