The Rolling Stones 2000-present
 In late 2001, Mick Jagger released his fourth solo album Goddess in the Doorway (UK 44; US 39), which met mixed reviews. Keith Richards called the album Dogshit in the Doorway.[citation needed] Jagger and Richards took part in The Concert for New York City, performing Salt of the Earth and Miss You with a backing band.
In 2002, the band announced the Licks Tour and released Forty Licks (UK 2; US 2), a greatest hits album that contained four new songs recorded with the latter-day core band of Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood, Leavell and Jones. The same year, Q magazine named The Rolling Stones as one of the 50 Bands To See Before You Die, and the 2002-2003 Licks Tour gave people that chance. On 30 July 2003, the band headlined the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to help the city — which they had frequently used for rehearsals — recover from the 2003 SARS epidemic. The concert was attended by an estimated 490,000 .
Keith Richards in Hannover, 2006, during the A Bigger Bang TourOn 9 November 2003, the band played its first concert in Hong Kong as part of the Harbour Fest celebration, also in support of the SARS-affected economy. In November of 2003, the band exclusively licensed the right to sell their new 4-DVD boxed set, Four Flicks, recorded on the band's most recent world tour, to the U.S. Best Buy chain of stores. In response, some Canadian and U.S. music retail chains (including HMV Canada and Circuit City) pulled Rolling Stones CDs and related merchandise from their shelves and replaced them with signs explaining the situation.
On July 26, 2005, Jagger's birthday, the band announced the name of their new album, A Bigger Bang (UK 2; US 3), which was released on September 6 to strong reviews, including a glowing write-up in Rolling Stone (noted for its consistent support of the group). The album included the most controversial song from the Stones in years, Sweet Neo Con, a criticism of American Neoconservatism from Jagger. The song was reportedly almost dropped from the album due to objections from Richards, who prefers to avoid overtly political or topical songs because he believes such songs rarely stand the test of time.
The subsequent A Bigger Bang Tour began in August 2005, and visited North America, South America and East Asia. In February 2006, the group played the half-time show of Super Bowl XL in the USA. By the end of 2005, the Bigger Bang tour set a record of $162 million in gross receipts, breaking the North American mark also set by the Stones in 1994. Later that month, the band played to a claimed 1.5 milldfjion on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in a free concert. After performances in New Zealand, Keith Richards went to hospital on May 2006 for brain surgery after a dubious fall from a coconut tree on Fiji, causing a six-week postponement of the European leg of the tour.
The Rolling Stones in 2005The following month, it was reported that Ron Wood was entering rehabilitation for alcohol abuse. The Stones returned to North America for concerts in September 2006, and returned to Europe on June 5, 2007. By November 2006, the Bigger Bang tour had been declared the highest-grossing tour of all time, earning $437 million. The North American leg brought in the third-highest receipts ever ($138.5 million), trailing their own 2005 tour ($162 million) and the U2 tour of that same year ($138.9 million). The Stones show in Horsens, Denmark, drew 85,000 people, the largest audience at any show on the scheduled part of the tour.
In late October 2006, filmmaker Martin Scorsese filmed the Stones at New York City's Beacon Theater, featuring an audience that included several world leaders, for release in 2008 titled Shine a Light which includes performances with Jack White and Christina Aguilera. On March 24, 2007, the band announced a tour of Europe called the Bigger Bang 2007 tour. June 12, 2007 saw the release of the Stones' second four-disc DVD set entitled The Biggest Bang, a seven-hour document featuring the band's shows in Austin, Rio de Janeiro, Saitama, Japan, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires, as well as extras. As with their first DVD set, the collection will be sold exclusively through Best Buy.
Charlie Watts in Hannover, 2006On June 10, 2007, the band performed their first gig at a festival in 30 years, at the Isle of Wight Festival, to a crowd of 50,000. On August 26, 2007 they played their last concert of the A Bigger Bang Tour. Mick Jaggdyter released a compilation of his solo work called The Very Best Of Mick Jagger including new songs on October 2, 2007. Rumours for a new tour in 2008 were confirmed by Ronnjhie Wood in a recent interview..[citation needed]
On September 26, 2007, it was announced The Rolling Stones had made $437 million on the A Bigger Bang Tour to list them in the latest edition of Guinness World Record.
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