Would you pay $15 just to hear one song live?
With concert ticket prices sharply rising by over 45% over the last five years, and many concerts barely cracking the 90-minute mark, concert-goers are faced with having to pay up or miss out.
Experts at GigaCalculator delved into the numbers, factoring in ticket prices, stadium capacities, average setlists, and show durations, to reveal the costliest songs to see live in 2025 – and some artists are making over $800,000 per track.
Key Findings:
- Lana Del Rey charges the most per song ($16.02), performing just 15 tracks in 83 minutes.
- OASIS is estimated to make $858,024 per song, per show, and $17.16 million per show through massive venues and extensive setlists.
- Bad Bunny’s $464 tickets seem steep, but at $10.31 per song for 45 tracks, they’re the best deal.
- Lana Del Rey earns 4× more per song than Billie Eilish despite shorter setlists.
Most expensive songs to see live in summer 2025
| Rank | Artist | Tour | Estimated Av. Ticket Cost | Av. Concert Length (Mins) | Av. No of Songs Performed | Av. Gross Per Song | Estimated Av. Cost Per Song |
| 1 | Lana Del Rey | Summer Tour 2025 | $240 | 83 | 15 | $803,428 | $16.02 |
| 2 | Lady Gaga | Mayhem Ball Tour | $321 | 130 | 23 | $359,614 | $13.97 |
| 3 | Beyoncé | Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour | $491 | 148.5 | 36 | $362,517 | 13.63 |
| 4 | OASIS | Reunion Tour | $272 | 151 | 33 | $858,024 | $13.60 |
| 5 | Charlie XCX | Brat 2025 Arena Tour | $259 | 73 | 20 | $699,033 | $12.97 |
| 6 | Billie Eilish | Hit Me Hard and Soft | $340 | 89 | 28 | $225,857 | $12.14 |
| 7 | Coldplay | Music of the Spheres World Tour | $352 | 120 | 30 | $770,880 | $11.73 |
| 8 | Lainey Wilson | Whirlwind World Tour | $253 | 83 | 22 | $121,900 | $11.50 |
| 9 | Sabrina Carpenter | Short n’ Sweet Tour | $277 | 88 | 25 | $213,458 | $11.08 |
| 10 | Bad Bunny | Residency at Coliseo de Puerto Rico | $464 | 135 | 45 | $185,400 | $10.31 |
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Below are some details about the artists and the tours which feature the top placed ones.
- Lana Del Rey, Summer Tour 2025
Lana Del Rey’s Summer Tour is costing fans a whopping average of $16.02 per song this summer. Reported ticket prices start at $56 and soar to $530, proving fans will pay premium prices for her brief, atmospheric shows. Each song is estimated to rake in around $803,428 per show, with her short 7-show tour generating a cool $12.3 million each night.
She’s predicted to include longer fan-favourites like Ride, which remains the lengthiest, and most expensive track for concert-goers to listen to.
- Lady Gaga, Mayhem Ball Tour
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball tour ranks second at an estimated $13.97 per song, offering significant value with 23 songs across productions averaging at 130 minutes, balancing theatrical extravagance with relative value compared to the top two artists.
Despite the highest average ticket price in the top five, $321, Gaga’s longer performances dilute the per-song cost, making her 57-show tour more accessible on a per-minute basis than Lana Del Rey. Each song performed per show is estimated to generate $359,614. Blade of Grass, Mayhem’s longest track, is predicted to add extra value to her already extensive setlist.
- Beyonce, Cowboy Carter
At a predicted $13.63 per song, Beyoncé ranks third across 36 shows. Each of her estimated 32 songs per 150 minute performance is forecast to earn $362,517, maximising revenue despite venues averaging just 29,500 capacity. This strategic balance of premium pricing and more intimate settings than stadium tours locks her in as one of the artists with the priciest songs to see live in 2025.
II Hands II Heaven is expected to be the longest song of the tour, contributing to her tour’s impressive nightly revenue, estimated at $13.05 million per show.
- OASIS, Reunion Tour
OASIS commands an estimated $13.60 per song for their highly anticipated reunion tour, but the real story is their revenue efficiency. Their 150-minute performances, featuring 33 songs make them the revenue champions at $858,024 per song – over $50,000 more than even Lana Del Rey.
Running from July to September 2025 across 33 shows, each song is estimated to generate an impressive $858,024 per show, with nightly grosses projected at a staggering $17.16 million.
- Charli XCX, Brat 2025 Arena Tour
Charli XCX rounds out the top five at an estimated $12.97 per song with an approach similar to Del Rey’s – short sets averaging 73 minutes with just 20 songs, but in larger venues averaging 59,900 capacity. Thanks to this, the tour, running from September 2025 to July 2025 across 35 venues, is estimated to gross approximately $13.98 million nightly – translating to an impressive gross of $699,033 per song.
Methodology
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The experts at GigaCalculator were keen to find out which artists are touring this year and have the priciest songs to see live.
- To do so, firstly a list of some of the most affluent music artists with upcoming and recently ending tours/ tours rolling in 2025 was gathered from Hollywoodreporter.com.
- The set list averages are combinations of reported tour performances and average song numbers calculated using prior figures found on setlist.com.
- Average show lengths were based on average reports of all concerts found on setlist.com and other reputable sources, where necessary.
- Concert venues were found on Wikipedia.com, and all capacities were identified and averaged to provide an audience size.
- Ticket prices were found on sites including Ticketmaster, StubHub, and reliable reports on BusinessInsider.com*
- Estimates of average ticket prices were calculated from the upper and lower reported costs for standard tickets, and a reported average ticket cost for the top 100 artists globally (135 USD) on Statista.com.
- Estimated earnings were calculated by the average venue capacity ( X 0.9 assuming not all venues were filled to capacity) multiplied by the average price of tickets.
- Estimated cost per song were calculated by the following steps:
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a. First, the cost per minute was calculated: cost per min = Average Ticket Cost ÷ Average Concert Length.
b. Then, the estimated cost per song was calculated by multiplying the cost per minute by the average song length: Est. Cost Per Song = Cost per min × (Average Concert Length ÷ Average Number of Songs)
- The artists were then ranked in descending order, revealing the touring artist with the priciest songs to see in 2025.
- Data was gathered in May 2025 and is accurate as of then.
*Business Insider reports include data from StubHub and VividSeats.
An applied statistician, data analyst, and optimizer by calling, Georgi has expertise in web analytics, statistics, design of experiments, and business risk management. He covers a variety of topics where mathematical models and statistics are useful. Georgi is also the author of “Statistical Methods in Online A/B Testing”.