The Weeknd tour ends with reported $1.3 billion gross

The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn tour ended in Kuala Lumpur on November 5, with promoter Live Nation reporting a gross of more than $1.3 billion and calling it the highest-grossing tour by a male solo artist. The final performance at TM Stadium Nasional closed a stadium run that began in July 2022. Live Nation said the tour comprised 176 shows in 67 cities, 30 countries and five continents, selling more than nine million tickets. The promoter’s announcement is the basis for the reported gross and record ranking; the figures were not independently audited in the reports. The total places the tour ahead of Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which grossed more than $939 million, according to the reports. It ranks behind Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour among the highest-grossing tours overall. Those comparisons and the male solo-artist record reflect Live Nation’s reported figures. Live Nation said the tour generated more than $500 million in gross revenue and sold more than three million tickets in 2026. Its final stretch included 17 sold-out stadium shows in Asia, where the tour performed for the first time. The dates were expanded...