VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Garth Makes Top-10 Vegas Residency List, Sphere Adds 6 Unity Shows

Posted on: April 1, 2025, 11:32h. 

Last updated on: April 1, 2025, 02:50h.

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When Caesars Entertainment and Live Nation announced recently that Garth Brooks’ “Plus One” Caesars Palace residency, which wrapped on March 9, sold 300K tickets, grossing $130 million, that put the country superstar at No. 9 on the all-time list of top-grossing Las Vegas residencies.

Garth Brooks performed his “Plus One” residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from 2023 through March 9. (Image: garthbrooks.com)

Garth now appears between Elton John’s “The Million Dollar Piano” Caesars residency at No. 8, which sold 777K tickets to gross $131 million from 2011-2018, and Bruno Mars’ Park MGM residency at No. 10, which sold 410K tickets to gross $124.5 million from 2016-2024.

Brooks nudged Lady Gaga’s “Enigma + Jazz & Piano” residency, which sold 377K tickets to gross $110 million from 2018-2024, out of the Top 10.

Here’s the new list:

  1. Celine Dion, “A New Day…,” Caesars Palace (2003-2007)
    Gross: $385M
    Tickets: 2.8M
  2. Celine Dion, “Celine,” Caesars Palace (2011-2019)
    Gross: $296M
    Tickets Sold: 1.7M
  3. U2, “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere”(2023-2024)
    Gross: $244.5M
    Tickets Sold: 663K
  4. Adele, “Weekends With Adele,” Caesars Palace (2022-2024)
    Gross: ~$200M
    Tickets Sold: ~420K
  5. Elton John, “The Red Piano,” Caesars Palace (2004-2009)
    Gross: $166.4M
    Tickets Sold: 982K
  6. Britney Spears, “Britney: Piece Of Me,” Planet Hollywood (2013-2017)
    Gross: $137.7M
    Tickets Sold: 916K
  7. Dead & Company, “Dead Forever: Live at Sphere” (2024)
    Gross: $131.8M
    Tickets Sold: 477K
  8. Elton John, “The Million Dollar Piano,” Caesars Palace (2011-2018)
    Gross: $131M
    Tickets Sold: 777K
  9. Garth Brooks, “Plus One,” Caesars Palace (2023-2025)
    Gross: $130M
    Tickets Sold: 300K
  10. Bruno Mars, “Bruno Mars at Park MGM” (2016-2024)
    Gross: $124.5M
    Tickets Sold: 410K

Sphere Expands ‘Unity’

“Unity” is the first collaboration between the organizers of the world’s leading electronic dance music festivals. (Image: Unity)

“Unity,” the electronic dance music collab between the organizers of the annual Electric Daisy Carnival and Tomorrowland festivals, has added six more dates at the Las Vegas Sphere after selling out its initial three nights. The first collaboration between Insomniac and Tomorrowland will return for the weekends of September 19-20, September 26-27, and October 17-18.

The production will fuse visual motifs from Tomorrowland’s Planaxis, Adscendo, and Orbyz stages with Insomniac’s whimsical festival properties, including Beyond Wonderland, Escape Halloween, and the Electric Daisy Carnival.

The Sphere already proved that EDM fans would come if they built a show for them, having hosted a dozen performances of Anyma’s “The End of Genesys” between December 27 and March 2. However, the Sphere seems to have a policy of throwing only a limited number of dates on sale for each residency time, announcing more dates only after those have been gobbled up.

A presale for the new dates starts at 10 a.m. PT Tuesday, April 1 here, with the official public on-sale starting April 7. Travel packages will be available through Vibee with choices of GA floor tickets or premium reserved seating and a two-night stay at either The Venetian or Virgin Hotels.

Is it More Lionel You’re Looking For?

Lionel Richie has added six dates to his “King of Hearts” residency at the Venetian’s Encore Theater, which the ‘80s hitmaker began in 2019. Tickets for October 15, 17-18, and 24-25 go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 4 at Ticketmaster.com.