Rolling Stones year's most successful concert tour to date

Ageing rockers The Rolling Stones have topped the charts for concert tours in the first six months of 2006.

The Stones tour, A Bigger Bang, took in US$147 million ($239.37 million), according to a story in the US music magazine Billboard today.

Two other classic groups claimed second and third place, with the Irish rockers U2 taking US$73 million and Bon Jovi, US$65 million.

The Stones had to delay the European part of their tour for six weeks after guitarist Keith Richards injured himself falling from a tree in Fiji and required hospitalisation and treatment in New Zealand back in May/June.

- HERALD ONLINE STAFF