The Weeknd‘s After Hours Til Dawn stadium tour has grossed more than $440 million in 2026 alone.
The tour has sold over 3 million tickets this year alone, according to promoter Live Nation.
Those figures arrived as the tour opened its European and UK leg with a sold-out performance at Manchester‘s Etihad Stadium on Thursday (June 11), drawing an audience of close to 43,000.
Live Nation says the tour’s cumulative gross surpassed $1 billion last November, with more than 7.5 million tickets sold across 153 shows.
The company says that makes After Hours Til Dawn the highest-grossing tour by a male solo artist.
The highest-grossing tour of any kind remains Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour, which generated over $2 billion across 149 shows during its nearly two-year run, according to figures confirmed by Swift’s production company.
The Weeknd‘s tour launched in 2022 and has since played stadiums across North America, Europe, the UK, Latin America, and Australia – with return visits to every territory except Australia.
Playboi Carti is the support act for the European and UK dates, which include four nights at Paris‘s Stade de France and a five-night run at London‘s Wembley Stadium.
The European numbers align with what Live Nation has been telling its investors about the artist’s global drawing power.
“If you look at the average gross for The Weeknd in Europe and the UK, [it] is now generally on par where we were in America,” Omar Al-Joulani, Live Nation‘s Co-President of U.S. Concerts and President of Touring, said at the company’s investor day presentation in November.
When the tour crossed the billion-dollar mark, Al-Joulani said in a statement: “The Weeknd continues to redefine what it means to be a global touring artist.”
“Year after year, he sells out stadiums around the world, and the [After Hours Til Dawn] Tour now stands as one of the biggest of all time – a true reflection of his artistry and impact,” he added.
Live Nation is posting growth of its own.
The company reported annual revenues of $25.2 billion in 2025, up 9% year-over-year, with 159 million people attending its shows – the first year in which more fans attended Live Nation concerts outside the United States than inside it, as reported by MBW.
Michael Rapino, Live Nation‘s CEO, said in February that the company had built “momentum that carries us into a record-breaking 2026.”
In December, The Weeknd closed a reported $1 billion deal with Lyric Capital Group that brought outside investment into his catalog while keeping him and his team as shareholders with creative control.
The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, has more than 120 million monthly listeners on Spotify, where Blinding Lights is the most-streamed track in the platform’s history.
After Hours Til Dawn is set to wrap up this fall in Asia, where a leg initially announced with 11 dates has grown to 17 shows across Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur.
The Weeknd has indicated the run could be his last under that stage name, having suggested that 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow may be his final release as The Weeknd.
For the 2026 dates, The Weeknd is giving €1 from every European ticket and £1 from every UK ticket to Global Citizen and the United Nations World Food Programme.Music Business Worldwide
