Notes:
All of the data is from Boxscore as published in Billboard Magazine except for the figures for the Tokyo show which are from a Japanese website.

Included are the attendance figures for the cancelled shows in Lubbock and the second Mexico City show since they represent real fans who purchased tickets but I excluded their grosses in the figures since the ticket price was refunded.

Total Shows 2002: 38 shows (35 in the US and Canada, 2 in Mexico and 1 in Japan)

Gross Ticket Sales: $ $32,147,044
Total Attendance: 646,424
Total Capacity: 664,579
Number of Sellouts: 26
Capacity Utilization: 97%





The biggest single show was the Tokyo Dome show.
The biggest run was the 2 shows at Mexico City’s Foro Sol.
The biggest show in the US and Canada was the Tacoma Dome show.

It is unclear if the figures exclude seats provided as part of the ticket giveaways. For example Pepsi, which paid a large sum to sponsor the tour, had a promotion that could, if every winning bottlecap had been redeemed, have seen 36,000 seats used. It seems as if these seats would not be included in the total gross ticket sales because they would have been given to Pepsi as part of their overall tour sponsorship.

Here are the top 10 tours of the first half of 2002:

1. Paul McCartney $52.8 million
2. Elton John/Billy Joel $44.4
3. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young $34.9
4. NSYNC $33.2
5. DMB $24
6. The Eagles $20.6
7. Green Day/Blink-182 $19.7
8. Britney Spears $18.9
9. Jimmy Buffet $17
10. Barry Manilow $14.7

With the addition of the July dates the Dream Within A Dream Tour would be ranked #5 but keep in mind The Eagles and DMB are continuing to tour and tours from Cher, The Rolling Stones, and Aerosmith will also rank highly but it seems as if the Dream Within A Dream Tour will end up as a Top Ten tour in the year-end issue of Billboard.

Some additional items:

The Mexico City shows had 51,261 attending for a gross of $2,155,292.
The Tokyo show had 62,011 attending for a gross of $2,921, 302.