The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn stadium tour is still delivering major money for rights holders and live business stakeholders, with more than $440 million grossed in 2026 alone and more than 3 million tickets sold this year, according to Live Nation. That performance matters because the tour is not only scaling revenue fast, it is also extending a global stadium run that has already crossed the billion-dollar mark.
A stadium run that keeps breaking through
The latest figures arrived as the tour opened its European and UK leg with a sold-out show at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on Thursday, June 11, drawing close to 43,000 fans. 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 After Hours Til Dawn is 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.
Europe and the UK are matching North America
The Weeknd launched the tour in 2022, and it 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.
Live Nation Co-President of U.S. Concerts and President of Touring Omar Al-Joulani said at the company’s investor day presentation in November that the average gross for The Weeknd in Europe and the UK is now generally on par with America. When the tour crossed the billion-dollar mark, Al-Joulani said in a statement that The Weeknd continues to redefine what it means to be a global touring artist.
Live Nation and The Weeknd both keep scaling
Live Nation reported annual revenues of $25.2 billion in 2025, up 9% year-over-year, with 159 million people attending its shows. It was also the first year more fans attended Live Nation concerts outside the United States than inside it, as reported by MBW. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino 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, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, has more than 120 million monthly listeners on Spotify, where Blinding Lights is the most-streamed track in the platform’s history.
What happens next
After Hours Til Dawn is set to wrap up this fall in Asia, where an initial 11-date leg has grown to 17 shows across Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. 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. The Weeknd has also indicated the run could be his last under that stage name, having suggested that the 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow may be his final release as The Weeknd.
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