honored at the Billboard Touring Awards in November 2017, winning Top Tour/Top Draw and being nominated for Top Boxscore. The Tour was also nominated for Top Rock Tour at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, with the band being nominated for Top Touring Artist and Top Duo/Group as well. In 2018, they were nominated for Top Touring artist and Top Rock Tour. The band also received the inaugural Ticketmaster Touring Milestone Award in 2019. The tour wrapped up after 158 concerts with $584.2 million grossed and 5,371,891 tickets sold. It became third highest-grossing tour in the history of Billboard's Boxscore. Opening acts Alice in Chains was the first band announced as an opening act on the tour. They played both of the Las Vegas shows in April 2016, while returning for select dates during the following summer leg of North America. Duff McKagan has ties with the band as he toured with them in 2006 and also expressing interest in writing a biography on them. Another band with previous ties with Guns N' Roses was selected for the Mexican dates in April – The Cult. As part of their Appetite for Destruction Tour, Guns N' Roses opened for The Cult for a whole North American leg in August and September 1987. A later drummer of The Cult, Matt Sorum, would eventually join Guns N' Roses in 1990 and stay until 1997. The Cult also returned to support the band during the summer of 2016. Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown were selected for numerous dates both in North America and Singapore. Before opening for Guns N' Roses they had been the opening band for AC/DC during the European leg of their Rock or Bust Tour in which Axl Rose served as the replacement singer. Chris Stapleton was a surprising selection as opener for the Nashville show, as Guns N' Roses usually picks artists within the same music genre as themselves, though it proved a successful choice for the Tennessee audience. Wolfmother opened their first show on the tour on July 12 in Pittsburgh, and would continue to appear as a supporting act throughout the tour. The singer, Andrew Stockdale, has a past working relationship with Slash, appearing on the 2010 single "By The Sword" from Slash's first solo album. Canadian punk rock band Billy Talent opened the only Canada date in Toronto during the summer North American leg of the tour. For