By Walt Hickey I’m hosting a show at Caveat in NYC on December 15th. I would love to see you there! There’s also a livestream option for out of town folks. Bad Bunny The top-grossing touring act of 2022 is Bad Bunny, who grossed $373.5 million across 65 shows, a figure that doesn’t even include his most recent 20 Latin American stadium shows. It’s a colossal achievement for a lot of reasons — the artist is the first act to not perform in English to top the top-grossing tours list — but also the result of several innovations in touring, particularly in Latin America. A typical tour of this size might have 20 cargo trucks, while Bad Bunny had up to 36 hauling 100 tons of equipment. He worked with independent and local promoters throughout Latin America, and rather than scale down his show for Latin American venues that lacked the state-of-the-art tech in many American stadiums, he flew all that necessary state-of-the-art equipment into a 747 and flew it around Latin America. That’s a big upfront cost, but the results speak for themselves.