What is the best Las Vegas residency of all time?

The Vegas residency went from where careers went to die to where they get resurrected. Elvis built the format, Celine industrialised it, and Sphere gave it a screen the size of a hillside. Pick the run you would have flown out for.

1. 1
   Elton John

   The Red Piano and Million Dollar Piano kept him at Caesars for years.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Celine Dion

   A New Day... ran at Caesars Palace from 2003 and reset the modern residency.
   930pts
3. 3
   Elvis Presley

   Played the International and the Hilton from 1969, the residency every other one is measured against.
   930pts
4. 4
   Rod Stewart

   Held the Colosseum stage alongside Celine and Elton for over a decade.
   818pts
5. 5
   Liberace

   The candelabra, the capes, the template for Vegas excess.
   734pts
6. 6
   Garth Brooks

   Stripped his arena show down to one man and a guitar at the Wynn.
   734pts
7. 7
   Britney Spears

   Piece of Me ran at Planet Hollywood from 2013 and pulled a younger crowd in.
   636pts
8. 8
   Usher

   Park MGM show widely credited with making residencies cool again.
   636pts
9. 9
   Barry Manilow

   Sold out Vegas rooms across three decades and several hotels.
   520pts
10. 10
    Bruno Mars

    Park MGM run that turned into his own bar and a permanent Vegas home.
    520pts
11. 11
    Katy Perry

    Play at Resorts World, a cartoon-scale set built around her hits.
    520pts
12. 12
    U2 at Sphere

    Opened the $2.3bn venue in 2023 and redefined what a Vegas room can do.
    520pts
13. 13
    Lady Gaga

    Ran two shows at once — the pop spectacle Enigma and a jazz-and-piano set.
    520pts
14. 14
    Frank Sinatra

    The Sands headliner who made the city sound like the Rat Pack.
    382pts
15. 15
    Adele

    Weekends with Adele at the Colosseum, the hardest ticket of its run.
    382pts
16. 16
    Dead & Company at Sphere

    Dead Forever turned the sphere's screen into a psychedelic light show.
    382pts
17. 17
    Cher

    Classic Cher and its predecessors made her a fixture at Caesars and the Park.
    0pts

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