Billboard has proclaimed The Rolling Stones' current A Bigger Bang tour the "top-grossing tour in history", and this despite various postponements caused by Keith Richards' Fiji palm tree incident and Mick Jagger's subsequent bout of laryngitis.
The trade magazine says that since August 2005 the band have grossed $437m by playing 110 shows in front of 3.5 million fans, which puts them some way ahead of the previous top grossing tour, U2's Vertigo outing, which grossed $337m.
And those figures relating to the current tour do not include the Stones' huge free concert in Brazil in February, when an estimated two million fans saw the band perform on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.