It’s been a great year for live music around the world with many major artists selling out night after night in a row. It’s also been a year where previous record were broken including a new record for the highest-grossing and most widely-attended tour of all time, U2’s three-year 360° tour.

Billboard in the US have put together a list of the 20 highest earning tours of 2011 with artists ranked by total gross earnings, according to Billboard Boxscore, from Nov. 1, 2010, to Nov. 8, 2011.

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