The Ozzy Osbourne-Black Sabbath Farewell Concert Has Made Even More History by Setting a Record

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The Ozzy Osbourne-Black Sabbath Farewell Concert Has Made Even More History by Setting a Record originally appeared on Parade.
The 'Back to the Beginning' farewell concert to and Black Sabbath already made news earlier this month when it brought some of the biggest names in hard rock together to pay tribute to Ozzy and Sabbath.
Now comes word that the show has also set a record by raising more than $200 million, making it the highest-grossing charity concert since and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 brought the concept of an all-star benefit show to the fore, per Billboard.
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Earlier reports put the total from the one-day concert at $190 million, but that was only for charitable donations, per the report.
The concert held at Villa Park in Birmingham, England, was streamed on pay-per-view by 5.8 million viewers and watched live by 40,000 ticketholders. The funds from the concert will go to Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorn Hospice and Cure Parkinson's, which is dedicated to eradicating the disease Osbourne has battled since 2019.
Alice in Chains bassist , who played in Osbourne's solo band and performed with AIC and Ozzy at the 'Back to the Beginning' show, took to Instagram to share the news about the concert's success.
'Rock is NOT dead. I'm so proud to be a part of the heavy community who not only showed how much they wanted to say farewell to Sabbath and Ozzy, really put their money where their hearts are and contributed to the largest single charity concert in history. So grateful to all the people on this planet who love distortion and heavy music. Thank you. We all did this together. #backtothebeginning#ozzyosbourne#blacksabbath,' he wrote.The total from 'Back to the Beginning' topped other recent all-star charity shows including FireAid. That effort, held in January 2025, raised more than $100 million for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires in which 29 people died and more than 16,000 homes were destroyed earlier that month.
Live Aid, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, raised about $100 million for famine relief for Ethiopia and Sudan.
Farm Aid, the longest-running charity concert that was started as an off-shoot from Live Aid by Willie Nelson, has raised more than $80 million to help family farmers over the last four decades.
The Concert for Bangladesh, the grandaddy of the charity concert, was actually a pair of sold-out shows held at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 1. It raised about $250,000 from the 40,000 tickets sold, but the charity effort didn't stop there. Following the release of the live album and film Concert for Bangladesh, organizers reportedly sent an estimated $12 million to Bangladesh via UNICEF, Billboard reports.
The Ozzy Osbourne-Black Sabbath Farewell Concert Has Made Even More History by Setting a Record first appeared on Parade on Jul 16, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 16, 2025, where it first appeared.