Nine Sold-Out Garden Nights at 249 Dollars a Ticket Became Seven 2027 Stadiums

Bon Jovi’s seven new 2027 stadium dates amount to a verdict on the worst night of the comeback. That’s the bet. The July 23 show at Madison Square Garden collapsed because of a sinus infection, the band’s camp said, not because the voice Jon Bon Jovi spent four years rebuilding after his 2022 vocal-cord surgery had failed. The first of the new dates goes on general sale in Australia today.

Pollstar’s Boxoffice reports put the nine sold-out Garden shows at $31.4 million on 126,097 tickets. That works out to roughly $249 a ticket and about 14,011 of them a night, or close to $3.5 million every show. It was the first tour of any kind the band has mounted since the surgery. Jon Bon Jovi had already told Joel Madden in an interview last year that he hoped a “much bigger tour” would follow in 2027, and the October 19 announcement made the hope official.

Bon Jovi was about 90 minutes into the July 23 show when he told the Garden he was hurting, called Train’s Pat Monahan out from backstage to carry “Livin’ on a Prayer” with him, and ended the set after roughly 15 songs. Monahan attended as a fan. “Don’t throw away your ticket stubs, I’m gonna figure something out, OK?” he told the crowd. “Just hang onto it, I’m gonna figure out how to reschedule.” From the floor, the reaction was gentler than the reviews. “Thank you for still taking the stage tonight and giving your all,” wrote Jerry Braden (@Jerrybraden92) on X, over video of the shortened set.

The singer was “battling a sinus infection which led to the show’s early ending,” a spokesperson told Rolling Stone that night. The make-good was money. Ticketmaster emailed primary ticket buyers that Bon Jovi would refund the full price of every July 23 ticket at the original point of purchase, inside 14 business days, because a replacement show couldn’t be scheduled. At the residency’s per-show rate, that was roughly $3.5 million handed back, a ninth of the run. Stryper’s Michael Sweet, watching the comeback from the sidelines, offered fans two options. “Buy a ticket and go to the show without expectations,” he said. “Just enjoy the fact that he’s alive and still performing. Then keep it to yourself.”

Bon Jovi closed the Garden run on July 26 with a full set, telling the crowd the band had given them everything it had to give and that the next chapter was called Joy. Three sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium followed, ending September 9, when Jon Bon Jovi told fans the band was already booking a 2027 tour, the promise the October 19 announcement kept. He made the promise onstage. A Consequence review of the residency, quoted in the band’s own announcement, said he gave everything he had, and that “determination, passion, and connection with the audience remain every bit as powerful.”

General sale opens at noon in Sydney and 1pm in Melbourne today, after a fan presale on October 20 and a PayPal window on October 21. London’s BST Hyde Park goes on sale at 10am BST this morning, and North America gets an artist presale on October 28 ahead of general sale on October 30. The Australian dates are the band’s first there in more than eight years — the 2018 run drew more than 159,000 fans. Eight years is a long wait. Jon Bon Jovi framed the expansion as continuity. “The Forever Tour has been an incredible celebration of the music and the fans who have been with us all these years,” he said in the announcement.

Jon Bon Jovi told the final Garden crowd he was calling the band’s seven-piece lineup the Magnificent Seven.