Ariana Grande, Post Malone Enter Artist Power Index Top 10 After 2026 Tour Launches

Ariana Grande and Post Malone both enter the lineup on the Artist Power Index ranked in the top 10 after kicking off their 2026 tours in U.S. venues. Grande launched “The Eternal Sunshine Tour,” her fourth as an arena headliner, on June 6 at Oakland Arena in Northern California and played two more shows there on the 9 th and 10 th . The venue was the first of three West Coast arenas booked during the first two weeks of the tour. Following the Oakland run, she has two performances planned at Crypto.com Arena and three more at Kia Forum in the Los Angeles market through June 20.

Then, Post Malone resumed his “Big Ass Stadium Tour” with a performance on June 9 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, the first stadium date this year on his world tour that began in April of 2025. He will remain in North America with stadium dates set through the end of July, while an Asian leg of the tour is on tap for the fall. Prior to the Charlotte concert, he also played a string of earlier festival dates in U.S. cities from April 10 through June 7 with a handful of upcoming festival appearances also included on the summer run.

During the first year of the “Big Ass Stadium Tour,” Malone played shows in North American cities between April and July then headed to Europe for dates in August and September. With box-office figures reported from 35 stadiums on his tour last year, he averaged 38,057 in attendance per show with a gross average of $5.5 million. Then, Grande’s last road trek was her “Sweetener World Tour” in 2019 that featured arena shows in both North America and Europe between March and December. That year she averaged 13,833 sold seats and a $1.5 million gross per concert.

Elsewhere on the weekly charts, Bruno Mars remains at No. 1 on the Artist Power Index following the opening North American leg of “The Romantic Tour” that wrapped with a five-night stint at Rogers Stadium in Toronto in May. His tour heads to Europe next, beginning with three performances at Stade de France in Paris, June 18-21.

On LIVE75, Luke Combs remains at No. 1 based on ticket sales reported from his “My Kinda Saturday Night Tour” that also completed its opening trek through North America with multiple shows at the same Toronto venue. He played Rogers Stadium on June 5 and 6, selling a total of 98,218 tickets over both nights. The country star’s European run is set to begin on July 4 in Sweden with shows planned in four more countries through early August. He will complete his 2026 tour with three performances at London’s Wembley Stadium, July 31-Aug. 2.

The LIVE75 chart features only one debut in the top 10 with Spanish pop singer Aitana earning the No. 4 ranking with box-office results from her “Cuarto Azul World Tour,” booked in her home country through September. She has the highest ticket sales average for any artist playing an arena, as Combs, Bad Bunny and BTS earn the top three rankings on the chart based solely on stadium events. Her 16,291-ticket average came from sales at two concerts held at Roig Arena in Valencia, May 21-22, along with a single stadium performance on May 9 at Estadio Municipal Antonio Peroles in Roquetas de Mar, the first stop on the tour.

_Originally reported by [Pollstar](https://news.pollstar.com/2026/06/12/top-tours-ariana-grande-post-malone-debut-on-artist-power-index-following-2026-tour-openers/)._