The band will play a total of 41 shows across 13 countries
20:28, 11 Jul 2025Updated 20:28, 11 Jul 2025
Liam and Noel Gallagher. (Image: Simon Emmett/Fear PR/PA Wire )
With the first of Oasis‘ five homecoming shows in Manchester getting underway this weekend, the group are set to make a fair bit of money from the highly-anticipated reunion tour.
Speculation and estimates of how much Liam and Noel Gallagher themselves will earn from the comeback run has ranged from £40m to £400m.
Despite initial controversy over the pricing of tickets last summer – with some sold by Ticketmaster for as much as £337.50 – fans are expected to splash out £1bn on everything from beer to merch to hotel bookings in the UK and Ireland.
Last month, six official merchandise stores opened across Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham and Dublin.
Selling everything from £40 bucket hats to baby grows, cutlery sets, shot glasses, jigsaw puzzles and tote bags, the outlets are set to generate millions as droves of fans look to get kitted out for the shows.
The Oasis pop-up store in Spinningfields(Image: Manchester Evening News)
Birmingham City University was one of the first to take on the task of doing the maths.
Last year, they estimated that the initial 14 dates across the UK and Ireland could bring in £400m in ticket sales and other add ons.
They also reckoned that the Gallagher brothers were both in line to each earn £50m.
Bearing in mind that calculation was made before ticket prices were even unveiled, it doesn’t necessarily bring us any closer to the truth of the matter.
Dr Matt Grimes, course director of the music business BA at the institute, told The Guardian that the brothers could double their net worth in the space of a few weeks.
“They’re considering going into Europe as well, so they stand to make even more,” he said in August of last year.
Liam and Noel Gallagher arrive on stage at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Friday night (July 4)(Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Earlier this year, The Sun revealed that the band had already landed a £20million payday after Warner forked out a fortune to secure the rights to their image for a merchandising deal.
That figure is the first concrete number that can be put towards their overall earnings.
Considering it simply applies to image rights for a merchandising deal, it puts into perspective some of the numbers that might be coming their way in other aspects.
There is no doubt that the Oasis reunion tour is on course to become the most profitable series of shows in British music history.