It’s another award for RÜFÜS DU SOL, whose Inhale / Exhale World Tour is recognized as the highest-selling electronic tour of all time.
The Australian trio completed their 2025 Australian trek on Saturday, Nov. 22 with the third of three sold-out hometown shows at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena, lifting their tally to 750,000 headline tickets for the year, accumulated from nearly 50 shows across four continents.
Including festival spots, Chicago’s Lollapalooza among them, RDS has played to some 1.5 million fans this year, according to concert promoters Live Nation and independent Melbourne events specialist Untitled Group, which awarded the Sydneysiders with a commemorative plaque.
According to Untitled, which produced the Australasian leg of RDS’s latest run, more than 180,000 tickets were sold across dates in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Auckland, with several records busted along the way.
The “Alive” singers are now the highest-selling Australian act ever at Qudos Bank Arena, according to reps, while the 25,000 fans who attended the Nov. 29 show at Outer Fields at Auckland’s Western Springs was a new mark for that venue.
Dom Dolla has the record for an Australian tour by a homegrown DJ, with 170,000 tickets across four shows in December 2024, a jaunt also produced by Untitled.
Along the way, RDS, comprised of Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George, and James Hunt, managed to etch their name in the history books as the first electronic act to headline Los Angeles’ Rose Bowl.
The party won’t stop. The RDS machine rolls on in 2026, with their biggest headline tours in South America, the U.K. and Europe, including stops at London’s The O2, Paris’ Adidas Arena, and Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi, and the Saturday night headlining spot at 2026 Bonnaroo Festival.
The Australians’ world tour is in support of 2024’s Inhale / Exhale (Rose Avenue Records / Warner Music Australasia), their fifth studio album, which opened its account at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart, continuing a podium finish for all their recordings. RDS have won four career ARIA Awards, they have a Grammy Award in collection, and they can add another, for best dance/electronic album next February.
