The Weeknd Just Closed the Highest-Grossing Tour by a Male Artist Ever — $1.3 Billion

Four years. One hundred seventy-six shows. More than nine million tickets. And now, a number that puts The Weeknd in the history books: his After Hours Til Dawn stadium tour grossed more than $1.3 billion, making it the highest-grossing tour by a male artist in history.

The run came to an end Wednesday night, November 4, at Stadium Nasional in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Live Nation has now put a record-setting number on the journey. According to Variety, the tour passed Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which grossed over $939 million, for the male-artist record. After Hours Til Dawn now stands behind only Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres on the all-time gross list.

The scale of it is hard to wrap your head around. Since beginning in July 2022, the tour sold more than 9 million tickets across 176 shows in 67 cities, 30 countries and five continents — turning a trilogy of albums into a global meeting place, night after night. The closing leg showed just how wide that audience had become: after initially announcing 11 Asia dates, The Weeknd expanded the run to 17 sold-out stadium shows, including three nights in Bangkok and four in Hong Kong before the Kuala Lumpur finale. The 2026 leg alone brought in more than $500 million from over 3 million tickets, according to Live Nation.

The final tally also includes a humanitarian footprint. Live Nation says $8.5 million has been donated to the XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen through the tour, supporting hunger relief and education initiatives around the world.

For The Weeknd, the closing number is big enough to dominate the headline — but the real story is how a Canadian artist carried three album eras from stadium to stadium for four years, with millions of fans making that world together, one night and one city at a time. And if you need a reminder of the song that helped build all of it, press play on “Blinding Lights” below.

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Source: HotNewHipHop