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

Elton John

The Red Piano and Million Dollar Piano kept him at Caesars for years.

1000pts

2

Celine Dion

A New Day... ran at Caesars Palace from 2003 and reset the modern residency.

930pts

3

Elvis Presley

Played the International and the Hilton from 1969, the residency every other one is measured against.

930pts

4

Rod Stewart

Held the Colosseum stage alongside Celine and Elton for over a decade.

818pts

5

Liberace

The candelabra, the capes, the template for Vegas excess.

734pts

6

Garth Brooks

Stripped his arena show down to one man and a guitar at the Wynn.

734pts

7

Britney Spears

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

636pts

8

Usher

Park MGM show widely credited with making residencies cool again.

636pts

9

Barry Manilow

Sold out Vegas rooms across three decades and several hotels.

520pts

10

Bruno Mars

Park MGM run that turned into his own bar and a permanent Vegas home.

520pts

11

Katy Perry

Play at Resorts World, a cartoon-scale set built around her hits.

520pts

12

U2 at Sphere

Opened the $2.3bn venue in 2023 and redefined what a Vegas room can do.

520pts

13

Lady Gaga

Ran two shows at once — the pop spectacle Enigma and a jazz-and-piano set.

520pts

14

Frank Sinatra

The Sands headliner who made the city sound like the Rat Pack.

382pts

15

Adele

Weekends with Adele at the Colosseum, the hardest ticket of its run.

382pts

16

Dead & Company at Sphere

Dead Forever turned the sphere's screen into a psychedelic light show.

382pts

17

Cher

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

212pts