American Music Award for Favorite Touring Artist

The American Music Award for Tour of the Year has been awarded since 2016. Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out in November of the same year). In 2022, the award's name became Favorite Touring Artist.

American Music Awards for Tour of the Year
Country	United States
Presented by	American Music Awards
First award	2016
Final award	2022
Currently held by	Coldplay
Most wins	Coldplay (2)
Most nominations	Ed Sheeran (3)
Website	theamas.com

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Artist	Tour	Ref
2016 (44th)	Beyoncé	The Formation World Tour	[1]
	Madonna	Rebel Heart Tour
	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	The River Tour 2016
2017 (45th)
	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour	[2]
	Garth Brooks	The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood
	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour 2017
2018 (46th)
	Taylor Swift	Reputation Stadium Tour	[3]
	Bruno Mars	24K Magic World Tour
	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour
	Beyoncé and Jay-Z	On the Run II Tour
	U2	Experience + Innocence Tour
2019 (47th)	BTS	Love Yourself World Tour	[4]
	Ariana Grande	Sweetener World Tour
	Elton John	Farewell Yellow Brick Road
	Pink	Beautiful Trauma World Tour
	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour

2020s

Year	Artist	Tour	Ref
2022 (50th)	Coldplay	—	[5]
	Bad Bunny	—
	Elton John	—
	The Rolling Stones	—
	Ed Sheeran	—
2025 (51st)	Zach Bryan	—	[6]
	Luke Combs	—
	Billie Eilish	—
	Taylor Swift	—
	Morgan Wallen	—

Category facts

Multiple nominations

3 nominations

• Ed Sheeran

2 nominations

• Beyoncé
• Coldplay
• Elton John
• Taylor Swift
• U2