Top 10 Most Iconic Rock Tours Of The 90's (2023)

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What was the biggest concert in the 90s? ›

1. Rod Stewart at Copacabana Beach (1994) – 4.2 million attendees.

In 2023, with 278 reported dates, the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour by Elton John became the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, unadjusted for inflation.

1. Nirvana. It's impossible to look back at '90s rock music without spotlighting Nirvana. With more than 50 million albums sold worldwide in the decade - including more than 10 million copies of 'Nevermind' sold in the U.S. - the band emerged from Seattle to become one of the biggest in music.

The Love Parade, an annual celebration of music and fun, drew more than 1.6 million visitors to Dortmund in 2008. Rod Stewart holds the current world record for the largest concert performance. He performed on Copacabana Beach on New Year's Eve in 1994 for 3.5 million people.

Any list of the greatest live performers in music today rightfully begins with the legends — the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2, Neil Young, and my vote for the greatest live performer of all time, Bruce Springsteen.

Yes, Billy Gibbons made the first ZZ Top single with two different guys, but the Gibbons/Hill/Beard trio has been in place since 1970. That's enough to make ZZ Top the longest-running group with an unchanged line-up in the entire history of popular music.

What rock song was number one in 1990? ›

Deep Purple Concert – 117 dB

At one point, it was recognized as the loudest band of all time by the Guinness Book of World Records after playing a famously noisy show at the Rainbow Theater in London.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales.

Bigger Than Woodstock: Remembering Summer Jam At Watkins Glen. History has tended to overlook the festival that was bigger than Woodstock, Monterey or the Isle of Wight. Rock folklore remembers landmark festivals such as Woodstock, Monterey and the Isle of Wight as legendary occasions.

The three longest running number-one singles of 1990 are "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor, "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey, and "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" by Stevie B, which each attained four weeks at the top of the chart.

By far, the artist with the most #1 hits from the 1990s is R&B-pop singer Mariah Carey.

Who is the best male singer ever lived? ›

1. Elvis Presley. Known as the king of rock'n'roll, Elvis Presley is the second best-selling solo artist of all time and has sold over 146.5 million units to date.

On February 20th, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty.

The Who concert disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on December 3, 1979, when English rock band The Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum (now known as Heritage Bank Center) in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and a rush of concert-goers outside the Coliseum's entry doors resulted in the deaths of 11 people.

According to a new study, Metallica is the “world's largest touring band” for the time being. The band recently performed two 'S&M2' shows in San Francisco during their WorldWired Tour.

Slip dresses, bomber jackets, scrunchies and plaid flannel shirts were all the rage during the '90s — and many of these fashion trends are working their way back into vogue (although some of these pieces may have never left your closet).

The 1990s was a decade where pop culture took flight, we all made some Friends, dance moves were born and fast-food got even bigger. Although they ended more than 20 years ago, some of these American icons remain just as relevant today. Iconic shows such as Rugrats (1991), Doug (1991), Hey Arnold!

What was the #1 rock song in 1995? ›

"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio (pictured) was the number one song on the Year-End chart after spending 12 weeks in the top-two of the Hot 100, three of which were spent at number one.

The Spice Girls are inarguably the biggest girl band of all time. They were formed in 1994. Posh, Baby, Scary, Ginger, and Sporty Spice — or Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Mel B., Geri Halliwell, and Mel C., as you might know them now — essentially took over the world in the '90s with their 1996 smash hit "Wannabe."

Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Scar Tissue"

Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Californication' became one of the band's defining releases, led by the incredibly vulnerable yet catchy first single “Scar Tissue.” The song spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, crossed over to hit No.

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 was the best performing and best-selling album of 1990 despite not reaching number-one at any point during the year.

Garnering multiple Grammys and a Golden Globe throughout the decade, Madonna proved she was right up there with the best 90s female singers when she became the biggest-selling female artist in the world in 1998. Unsurprisingly, Her Madgesty remains a pop fixture to this day.

Who was the best selling rock group of the 90s? ›

The decade included chart-topping hits from R&B heavyweights Boyz II Men and En Vogue, grunge rock bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and pop legends such as the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls.

Copacabana New Year's Eve Concert 1994/1995

British rock singer Rod Stewart proved that better than anyone else on New Year's Eve 1994/1995. His free New Year's Eve concert attracted a bit more than 3.5 million people that year, making it the biggest concert of all time.

Tickets purchased at the gate cost $180. There were about 400,000 attendees. A total of 186,983 tickets were sold according to reports shortly after the festival, which "translates into a gross take of $28,864,748" at the time. Ticket sales were advertised as being capped at 250,000, the capacity of the venue.

Known as one of the biggest concerts to ever take place, with a huge 1.6 million attendees, it marked the most momentous of performances for the heavy metal band Metallica.

John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Bonham 0f Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin was asked to play Woodstock, but the band's manager, Peter Grant, turned it down.

Arguably the most iconic moment of the entire Woodstock festival was when psychedelic guitar rocker Jimi Hendrix's played his legendary rendition of the United States National Anthem. Hendrix's performance was one of the last songs on stage at Woodstock.

Jimi Hendrix was Woodstock's headliner. But because of delays, he didn't end up playing until the morning of the final day of the festival, to a crowd that had dwindled down to somewhere around 25,000.

Ed Sheeran's Divide Tour: $775.6 Million

Ed Sheeran holds the record for the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.

In 1994, Rod Stewart performed a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio. The show attracted 3.5-4.2 million people, and set a Guinness World Record for Largest Free Rock Concert Attendance.

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How much were tickets worth? Tickets were sold for about $150 plus service charges, per The Washington Post. With more than 400,000 attendees, that is well over $60 million that the festival raked in with ticket sales alone.

Woodstock's youngest performer will be at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland tonight to discuss the iconic weekend festival. Henry Gross was just 18 and a member of Sha Na Na when the retro band played at Yasgur's Farm in August 1969.

The final act at Woodstock '99 was the Red Hot Chili Peppers. During the band's closing set, the festival organizers handed out 100,000 candles to the crowd for a staged vigil mourning the victims of the Columbine school shooting, which took place a few months prior.

For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow is a 1992 film featuring live performances by rock and heavy metal bands AC/DC, Metallica, The Black Crowes, Pantera, and E.S.T. in the Tushino Airfield in Moscow, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

As 1991 arrived, there was no bigger band on the planet than Guns N' Roses and the group took things to grandiose heights with two full records under the title Use Your Illusion.

On September 28th, 1991, Pantera played one of the most legendary performances of their legendary career: the groove-metal juggernaut's iconic set at Moscow's Monsters of Rock, the first outdoor rock festival ever held in the former Soviet Union.