The Run For Your Lives World Tour is a concert tour by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It began on 27 May 2025 in Budapest, Hungary, and is set to conclude on 31 October 2026, in Santiago, Chile.[1][2][3][4] This is the band's first concert tour in more than four decades not to feature drummer Nicko McBrain, following his retirement from touring in December 2024, and being replaced by British Lion member Simon Dawson as a touring drummer.
On 19 September 2024, the band announced the Run For Your Lives World Tour, a celebration of the band's 50th anniversary since their formation in 1975.[1] It was also confirmed that the set list for the tour would be focused on the band's first nine albums,[5] which Bruce Dickinson had promised would be a "set list for the ages".[6] This tour is the first since 1983's World Piece Tour not to feature drummer Nicko McBrain,[7] and first to feature his touring replacement Simon Dawson.[8]
The first thirty-two shows for the European leg in 2025 sold over a million tickets.[9] According to data published in the monthly industry magazine Pollstar, since 1982, more than 900 solo concerts in North America had generated more than $1 billion in revenue.[10] The magazine also published its annual ranking of the world's highest-earning artists, based on individual concert ticket sales data from November 2024 to the end of October 2025. Iron Maiden reached the 5th position in their career, one of their highest, with a revenue of $128 million and net ticket sales of 1.32 million for 41 concerts during that time frame.[11]
Iron Maiden entered at number 19 in Pollstar's Top 25 Most Popular Concert Artists of the New Millennium with net sales with 10 million tickets from 620 individual concerts played between 2001 and 2025.[12] The band also landed in the Top 3 of Billboard's Top Rock Tours 2025 chart. According to Billboard, the group sold 1.5 million tickets, generating approximately $150.9 million in revenue.[13]
On 18 September 2025, the band announced an extension of their tour for Europe, set to take place in 2026. The extended tour consists of eleven shows across Europe.[14] On 12 December 2025, Iron Maiden announced an extensive Central and South America tour, including stadiums in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Colombia.[15] Following the 2026 shows, the band are set to take a break from touring in 2027.[4]
Set list
The following set list was performed in Budapest, Hungary on 27 May 2025. It is not intended to represent a majority of the performances throughout the tour.[16]
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