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4 Coldplay

4 Coldplay

Coldplay’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour moved up a spot in 2023 grossing $325.5 million in 50 shows and will continue into 2024.

5 Harry Styles

Not one to ever stand still, the creative Styles took the stage for 59 shows, grossing $290.5 million for 2023.

6 Morgan Wallen

Morgan Wallen’s $284.8 million gross over 48 shows is but one example of his meteoric rise over the past few years.

7 Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran’s ‘+-=÷x’ (Mathematics) stadium world tour added $268 million gross from 54 shows to this multi-year tour’s total revenues.

8 P!nk

From P!nk’s ‘Trustfall’ tour to her ‘Summer Carnival’ the always dynamic performer took in $231.6 million over 44 shows.

9 Elton John

For Elton John fans, 2023 will be remembered as the end of his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.’

10 The Weeknd

Holding steady from last year’s top tours, The Weeknd grossed $221 million over 42 shows in 2023.

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When Wassily Kandinsky first heard a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin in 1896, he was moved by the powerful imagery the music evoked in his mind. More than a century later, musician, teacher and synaesthesis Natalia Sidler invented the Farblichtflügel (pictured here), which also combined music with color and to create a new perceptual experience. That, in turn, served as the inspiration for Peter Decker’s DyLOS, or Dynamic Light Operating System, which he worked on for Martin’s M-Series range of controllers, later acquired by Elation before the company launched Obsidian Control Systems in 2018. About 18 months later, with Decker’s help, Elation launched DyLOS as a revolutionary new component of the ONYX lighting control platform.