The Weeknd has reached a historic new milestone. His After Hours Til Dawn Tour has now crossed $1 billion in gross revenue, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time by a solo male artist and one of the most successful tours in music history. The achievement places the Toronto superstar in a rare class of global touring acts. He joins Coldplay (Music of the Spheres World Tour) and Taylor Swift (Eras Tour) as only artists to gross $1 billion.
The record-breaking figure arrives as the tour enters its final stretch, with more than 153 shows performed since its launch on July 14, 2022, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The tour has already set multiple venue records in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, while surpassing previous marks for attendance and revenue across several major stadiums. Earlier this year, it became the first tour by a Black artist to gross over $600 million and the first in nearly three decades to sell more than four million tickets worldwide, following Tina Turner’s Wildest Dreams Tour in the late 1990s.
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Built around The Weeknd’s recent trilogy—After Hours (2020), Dawn FM (2022), and Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025)—the After Hours Til Dawn Tour offers a cinematic, hyper-stylized live experience. Each night unfolds with large-scale pyrotechnics, intricate laser installations, and a towering gold statue created by Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama. Masked dancers and a 37-song setlist guide fans through the full scope of The Weeknd’s evolution, featuring global hits like “Blinding Lights,” “Starboy,” “Save Your Tears,” and “Can’t Feel My Face,” alongside newer tracks such as “Opening Night,” “Baptized in Fear,” and “Niagara Falls” from Hurry Up Tomorrow. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 490,500 units and broke Spotify’s 2025 opening-day streaming record.
Momentum continues to build as The Weeknd expands the tour even further. He recently announced new 2026 stadium dates across Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Stockholm, and London—an extension that follows the previously confirmed South American and European legs beginning in April. Playboi Carti will open the European shows, while Brazilian star Anitta joins for select performances in Brazil and Mexico.
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