The Weeknd's tour has grossed over $600M and sold more than 5M tickets

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The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn Tour sets a Boxscore record. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the global trek has grossed $635.5 million and sold 5.1 million tickets since launching in 2022, becoming the biggest R&B tour in history.

The Weeknd crossed the $600 million threshold with his two performances at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on July 30-31, bringing the tour full circle after launching at the same stadium on July 14, 2022. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour is the ninth tour to hit this benchmark, and the only one by an R&B artist or a Black artist. The other eight all trade in pop and rock, from Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to Harry Styles’ Love on Tour.

The same goes for The Weeknd’s R&B attendance record, making him the only genre act and only Black artist to sell more than five million tickets on a single tour. It is one of 11 tours to sell more than five million, and one of just eight to sell more than five million and gross more than $600 million.

The After Hours Til Dawn Tour has sprawled worldwide, first in North America in 2022, then Europe and South America in 2023, Australia in 2024 and back to the United States and Canada in 2025. The current leg is the tour’s biggest, at $243.3 million and 1.5 million tickets through Aug. 12. That marks a 64% increase over the previous North American leg and a 54% jump over the European leg, which was the tour’s previous highlight ($158.1 million).

By the tour’s final show on Sept. 3 on San Antonio, this leg’s earnings could surpass $300 million. The total tour take will approach $700 million, with ticket sales circling 5.5 million.

The After Hours Til Dawn Tour is The Weeknd’s longest trek, at 102 shows through Aug. 12, up from 63 reported dates on Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour in 2017. That 62% increase in the number of shows is significant, but it does not fully explain the 785% scale in total earnings, or the 508% leap in attendance. His jump from arenas to stadiums has nearly quadrupled his per-show ticket sales, compounded with a natural rise in ticket sales.

Dating back to his first reported show at Montreal’s Metropolis on March 23, 2012, The Weeknd has grossed $734 million and sold 6.3 million tickets from more than 200 reported concerts.
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[InTheCloset 21,719]

Gaga coming to break it with mayhem ball. Im delusional i know

[Lextyr97 20,712]

How come over the past almost decade, it seems soooo common to have these staggering tour figures? I feel like from Reputation Stadium Tour and backwards, crossing $300mil was like an incredible feat lol now it just seems like a given

Edited August 17, 2025 by Lextyr97

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7 minutes ago, Lextyr97 said:

How come over the past almost decade, it seems soooo common to have these staggering tour figures? I feel like from Reputation Stadium Tour and backwards, crossing $300mil was like an incredible feat lol now it just seems like a given

Well, ticket prices got higer. People accept to pay riddiculous amounts of money, why wouldn't they do it?

[PartySick 171,603]

Normalize measuring tour success in attendance and not how much money they can extort from their fans

5 million butts in seats or on the floor is great

[LG2008 6,265]

20 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Normalize measuring tour success in attendance and not how much money they can extort from their fans

5 million butts in seats or on the floor is great

The Beyoncé drag  as you should 

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57 minutes ago, Lextyr97 said:

How come over the past almost decade, it seems soooo common to have these staggering tour figures? I feel like from Reputation Stadium Tour and backwards, crossing $300mil was like an incredible feat lol now it just seems like a given

Inflation.

Actual monetary inflation meaning $300mil now is less than $300mil then.

And then the artificial inflation of tour ticket prices (although to my knowledge The Weeknd wasn't terrible with his). 

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1 hour ago, Lextyr97 said:

How come over the past almost decade, it seems soooo common to have these staggering tour figures? I feel like from Reputation Stadium Tour and backwards, crossing $300mil was like an incredible feat lol now it just seems like a given

It's just that tickets are getting insanely expensive, we are literally being scammed.

[PartySick 171,603]

45 minutes ago, LG2008 said:

The Beyoncé drag  as you should 

What Beyoncé drag?  

Bey does it, Abel does it, Gaga does it, they all do it  

The Mayhem Ball grosses about $3 million per show in venues that generally hold less than 20,000 people. That's pure theft tbh  

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2 hours ago, InTheCloset said:

Gaga coming to break it with mayhem ball. Im delusional i know

I mean i think she could if she did enough dates. Its not lack of ability if she wanted. But doing enough dates to get that much is brutal so I get it

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On 8/17/2025 at 12:17 PM, Lextyr97 said:

How come over the past almost decade, it seems soooo common to have these staggering tour figures? I feel like from Reputation Stadium Tour and backwards, crossing $300mil was like an incredible feat lol now it just seems like a given

This has been pretty normal for as long as I can remember. I vividly recall talk about Madonna's 2008-2009 Sticky & Sweet tour having some huge numbers around it at the time and publications throwing her in conversation with acts like The Rolling Stones as major touring acts. I guess it feels more common now because the discusson is around artists we're more aware of instead of primarily legacy acts.

[darkgaga 7,035]

Why do I feel this tour had like 0 buzz. Same with Ed Sheeran when he is touring. I know no one that goes to those concerts 

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2 minutes ago, darkgaga said:

Why do I feel this tour had like 0 buzz. Same with Ed Sheeran when he is touring. I know no one that goes to those concerts 

Same, he could be making all these money across the globe and i wouldnt know a thing. Sorry to this man

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1 hour ago, darkgaga said:

Why do I feel this tour had like 0 buzz. Same with Ed Sheeran when he is touring. I know no one that goes to those concerts 

Its a weird one. I remember we got given free tickets at work to take some young people we work with - but beyond that, I'm not aware of anyone in my life going and I've seen nothing on social media.

[spookytanooki 1,682]

Imagine touring for 3 years straight