Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Coldplay & More Nominated for 2025 Pollstar Awards

Coldplay , Morgan Wallen , Noah Kahan , Olivia Rodrigo , Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan are vying for major tour of the year at the 2025 Pollstar Awards. This marks a fairly young roster of nominees in the top category. Rodrigo, Kahan and Bryan are in their 20s, Wallen and Swift are in their 30s and the members of Coldplay are in their mid-40s.

The relative youth of these headliners, and the range of genres they represent — encompassing pop, rock and country — is considered a healthy sign for the touring industry. The Pollstar Awards recognize the most innovative and successful artists, tours, companies, venues and executives in the touring industry. Winners will be announced on Feb.



19 at the awards ceremony, which is slated to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Impressively, Chappell Roan and Gracie Abrams are nominated for both support/special guest of the year and new headliner of the year, a sign of their fast climbs to headliner status. Roan is nominated for support/special guest of the year for opening for Rodrigo, while brams is nominated in the support category for opening for Swift.

The other nominees for new headliner of the year are Charli XCX , Fred again.. , Sabrina Carpenter and Sleep Token , a rock band from London.

Thus, four of the six nominees for new headliner of the year are women. Elsewhere, three of the six nominees for residency of the year were held at The Sphere in Las Vegas: Dead & Company , Eagles and U2 . “Once again, this year’s nominees represent the best of the best, showcasing the incredible talent, innovation, and hard work that drives our industry,” said Ray Waddell , chief content director of OVG Media & Conferences, which produces Pollstar Live!, Production Live!, and the Pollstar Awards.

A new honor this year is the Maxie Solters Award – Touring Publicist of the Year, recognizing the highest achievement for a public relations executive in the live touring industry. The award was named in tribute to the widely-respected Scoop Marketing publicist, who died on Aug. 15 at age 37.

Nominations were submitted by the Pollstar Awards nominating committee, which is comprised of agents, promoters, managers, producers, production professionals, venue representatives, Pollstar Boxoffice reporters and other touring professionals. Pollstar subscribers can vote by logging into Pollstar.com to access their ballot.

Voting is open now through December 6 at 5 p.m. PT.

In addition to subscriber votes, data reporting and ticket sales will be weighted elements in the final results in some categories. The Pollstar Awards ceremony is a highlight of the three-day Pollstar Live! conference, which is set to take place Feb. 18-20 at the Beverly Hilton.

Registration is now open. Go to Pollstar.live to register and for the latest announcements about keynote speakers, panelists, session topics and more.

Here are the 36th Annual Pollstar Awards nominees in selected categories. View all the nominees at news.pollstar.

com. Coldplay, Music of the Spheres World Tour Morgan Wallen, One Night at a Time 2024 Noah Kahan, We’ll All Be Here Forever Tour Olivia Rodrigo, Guts World Tour Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour Zach Bryan, The Quittin Time Tour Blink-182, The More Time Tour Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 2024 World Tour Coldplay, Music of the Spheres World Tour Foo Fighters, Everything or Nothing at All Tour Green Day, The Saviors Tour Metallica, M72 World Tour $uicideboy$, Grey Day Tour 2024 Drake, It’s All A Blur Tour Megan Thee Stallion, Hot Girl Summer Tour Missy Elliott, Out of This World – The Missy Elliott Experience Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday 2 World Tour Travis Scott, The Circus Maximus Tour Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson: Together Again Jhené Aiko, The Magic Hour Tour Kehlani, The Crash World Tour Maxwell, The Serenade Tour Usher, Usher: Past Present Future Tour XSCAPE & SWV, The Queens of R&B Tour Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour Charli XCX & Troye Sivan, Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: Sweat Justin Timberlake, The Forget Tomorrow World Tour Olivia Rodrigo, Guts World Tour P!nk, Summer Carnival 2024 Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour Chris Stapleton, All-American Road Show Jelly Roll, The Beautifully Broken Tour Kenny Chesney, Sun Goes Down 2024 Tour Lainey Wilson, Country’s Cool Again Tour Morgan Wallen, One Night at a Time 2024 Tyler Childers, Mule Pull ‘24 Tour Zach Bryan, The Quittin’ Time Tour. Bad Bunny, Most Wanted Tour Carin León, Boca Chueca Tour 2024 Fuerza Regida, Pero No Te Enamores Tour 2024 Karol G, Mañana Será Bonito Tour Luis Miguel, Luis Miguel Tour 2023-24 Peso Pluma, Éxodo Tour 2024 Gabriel Iglesias, Don’t Worry Be Fluffy Tour Jim Gaffigan, Barely Alive Tour Matt Rife, ProbleMATTic World Tour Nate Bargatze, The Be Funny Tour Nikki Glaser, Alive and Unwell Tour Sebastian Maniscalco, It Ain’t Right Adele at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace/Neue Messe München Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden Dead & Company at The Sphere Eagles at The Sphere Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Ryman Auditorium U2 at The Sphere Chappell Roan for Olivia Rodrigo Ciara/Timbaland for Missy Elliott Gracie Abrams for Taylor Swift Paramore for Taylor Swift The Smashing Pumpkins for Green Day Zac Brown Band for Kenny Chesney Chappell Roan Charli XCX Fred again.

. Gracie Abrams Sabrina Carpenter Sleep Token.