The Police reunion tour has become the top grossing and top ticket-selling tour of 2007, according to Billboard.
Lead singer Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers began the tour in May in Vancouver and had grossed more than $171 million US by September, the publication said.
Lead singer and bassist Sting performs during the Police concert in Vancouver in May at the beginning of the band's worldwide tour.
(Chuck Stoody/Canadian Press)
At that point, they'd played 53 shows in a tour that will extend into 2008.
More than 1.5 million people in North America, Europe, Latin America, Japan and Australia saw the band in its first concerts in more than 20 years.
The Police announced the tour in February at the Whisky A Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood, a high-profile event designed to catapult the band back into the spotlight, according to Arthur Fogel, chairman of music for touring company Live Nation Inc.
"Clearly there was pent-up demand from 20-plus years of them not touring and the fact that they were, when they split up in the mid-80s … at their peak and they were very prolific and very successful," he said.
The band won awards for top grossing and top ticket-selling tour at the Fourth annual Billboard Touring Awards on Thursday.
Justin Timberlake's Futuresex/Loveshow tour, which has earned more than $115.8 million USÂ in 100 shows, was named top breakthrough tour of the year.
Kenny Chesney's tour with Sugarland, Pat Green, Brooks & Dunn and Sara Evans was named top package tour.
It has grossed more than $71.2 million US from 55 shows seen by more than 1.1 million people. Chesney was named the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year earlier this week.
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