Madonna's MDNA World Tour was the top grossing tour across the globe for the year of 2012.The "material girl" easily topped the chart of the Top 10 grossing tours after earning $228 million, almost $30 million more than the second place finisher, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, according to BBC.
The Boss took in $199.4 million followed by Roger Waters' The Wall tour which grossed $186.5 million based on numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore for the period of Nov. 9, 2011-Nov. 10, 2012.
The top 5 was rounded out by the Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil with $147.3 million and Coldplay with $147.2 million.
Lady Gaga came in sixth with $124.9 million, followed by Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw who grossed $96.5 million.
Despite being cut short, Van Halen's tour landed in eighth place with a gross of $54.4 million. Billboard has an in depth look at the top tours of 2012 here.
