The Weeknd's tour ends as highest-grossing ever by a male artist at more than $1.3 billion
The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn tour has closed as the highest-grossing tour ever by a male artist, taking in more than $1.3 billion, promoter Live Nation announced on Thursday.
The tour ran to 176 shows across 67 cities, 30 countries and five continents, selling more than nine million tickets. In 2026 alone it grossed more than $500 million and sold more than three million tickets, and in July 2026 it topped Billboard's monthly Boxscore chart, grossing more than $120 million and selling nearly 900,000 tickets in a single month. The tour began on 14 July 2022 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and closed with a final show in Kuala Lumpur.
The previous record for a male artist belonged to Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which took in more than $939 million. Only two other tours have ever passed $1 billion: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, at more than $2 billion, and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres, at more than $1.5 billion. Over the course of the run, $8.5 million was donated to the XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen.
The gross, the show and ticket counts and the 2026 figures come from Live Nation's own announcement, carried by PR Newswire. The comparisons with Elton John, Swift and Coldplay come from Variety's reporting on the announcement rather than the release itself, and outlets differ on whether the Kuala Lumpur finale fell on 4 or 5 November, Kuala Lumpur being eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
A tour of this scale is a logistical feat as much as a commercial one: four years on the road, five continents, and a monthly gross in July 2026 that alone would have ranked among the biggest tours of the year. The 2026 leg did much of the work, accounting for more than $500 million of the total, and the July Boxscore month showed the demand was still rising at the end rather than fading.
The record now stands until the next stadium run comes for it. The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye in Toronto, has not announced what follows the tour, and the announcement gives no hint of a next leg.