The Weeknd's seventh tour is over. It started at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on 14 July 2022 and ended this week with two nights at TM Stadium National in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 4 and 5 November 2026. The promoter, Live Nation, puts the final count at 176 shows in 67 cities and 30 countries, more than 9 million tickets and more than $1.3 billion. That makes it the highest-grossing tour ever by a male artist, and only the third tour of any kind to pass $1 billion, after Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres. Along the way there was a show that stopped after three songs, a concert film, and two new albums folded into the set. These are the numbers.
The tour that kept getting postponed
It was announced on 20 February 2020 as the After Hours Tour, an arena tour of North America and Europe to promote his fourth album, After Hours, running from Vancouver in June 2020 to London that November. Then the pandemic hit. The dates were pushed to 2021, and in February 2021, four days before he headlined the Super Bowl LV halftime show, pushed again to 2022. In October 2021 came a third change: the arenas were dropped for stadiums, with The Weeknd citing demand and the "constraints of arenas".
When his fifth album, Dawn FM, came out in January 2022, the tour was renamed After Hours til Dawn to cover both records. Doja Cat was announced as the support act, then withdrew in May 2022 because she needed surgery on her tonsils; Snoh Aalegra, Mike Dean and Kaytranada replaced her. By the time it ended, the tour had also absorbed a third album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, released on 31 January 2025.
The show
The stage was a city in ruins. In North America in 2022 it was a row of wrecked buildings modelled on his hometown, Toronto, with a post-apocalyptic skyline on the screen behind them and a catwalk running out to a giant inflatable moon. Dancers in red robes moved, or stood completely still, around him, and he opened the show behind a mask. In Europe in 2023 the screen was replaced with more physical buildings, chrome this time, including ruined versions of the CN Tower and the Empire State Building, with a statue by the Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama in the middle. For the 2026 European leg it was replaced by a 40-foot gold Sorayama sculpture.
The music changed as the tour went on. The first night in Philadelphia opened with “Alone Again” and “Gasoline” and closed with “Less than Zero” and “Blinding Lights”, 29 songs in all. By Manchester on 11 June 2026 the set had grown to 40 songs, opening with “Baptized in Fear” and “Open Hearts”, and “Blinding Lights” was no longer the last song: three more came after it, ending with “Moth to a Flame”.
Each region got its own version. For the Latin American dates in 2023 the skyline behind the band came down and a six-metre LED screen went back up, and he swapped the coat for a sleeveless camouflage suit, a metallic arm sleeve and a helmet with an LED visor; Complex called the look "Robocop-like". By 2026 the screen was back in Europe too, alongside golden ruins, lasers and pyrotechnics tied to the look of Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The support acts changed with the legs as well. The producer Mike Dean opened in North America in 2022, alongside Kaytranada and Snoh Aalegra, again in Australia with Chxrry22 and Anna Lunoe, and again in North America in 2025, this time with Playboi Carti. In 2026 Anitta opened the Latin American shows and Playboi Carti the European ones, and Creepy Nuts and Yousuke Yukimatsu joined for the final leg in Asia, which was billed as "Live in Asia".
Three songs and stop
The tour's strangest night came early. At SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on 3 September 2022, The Weeknd stopped the show three songs in, saying he had lost his voice. He promised everyone a full refund and "a real show soon", and apologised on social media. Twenty-four days later the rescheduled date was announced, along with a second show at the stadium. He came back in November, and the 27 November 2022 concert was filmed: The Weeknd: Live at SoFi Stadium premiered on HBO Max on 25 February 2023, with a live album a week later. He went back to SoFi again in 2025, and by the end of the tour he had more sold-out shows there than any other male artist.
Year by year
The first North American leg, 21 shows in 2022, grossed more than $148 million and sold over a million tickets. Europe and Latin America followed in 2023. The Australian and New Zealand dates planned for November and December 2023 were postponed two weeks before they began; the New Zealand shows were later cancelled, and four Australian shows went ahead in October 2024. Then the tour came back bigger: 42 stadium shows across North America in 2025, and 65 in 2026 across Latin America, Europe and, for the final leg, Asia.
The money
The final figures came in the day the tour ended: more than $1.3 billion from more than 9 million tickets, according to Live Nation. The climb to get there tells the story of the last two years. In August 2025 Billboard reported the tour had grossed $635.5 million and sold 5.1 million tickets, making it the biggest R&B tour in history, ahead of Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour and Bruno Mars's 24K Magic World Tour. By November 2025 it had passed $1.004 billion from 153 reported shows, the highest-grossing tour ever by a male solo artist. Billboard ranked it the fourth-biggest tour of 2025 and Pollstar the sixth, with an average of $7.3 million a show. By September 2026 Pollstar had the total at $1.07 billion; by the final night it had passed $1.3 billion.
Part of every ticket went somewhere else. In March 2022 he launched the XO Humanitarian Fund with the UN World Food Programme, donating $1 from every ticket sold on the tour on top of an initial $500,000. By the end, the tour had raised $8.5 million for the fund and Global Citizen, $3 million of it in 2026.
Records along the way
The tour set venue records on both sides of the Atlantic. At London Stadium in July 2023 he drew 159,574 people over two nights. At Wembley on 18 August 2023 he sold 89,179 tickets, the biggest single-night crowd the stadium has seen with a traditional stage layout. In Rio de Janeiro, 71,363 people came to the Estádio Nilton Santos on 7 October 2023. In his home town he played Toronto's Rogers Centre six times, in 2022 and 2025, more sold-out shows there than any other male solo artist. At SoFi Stadium he played seven shows, the most there by a male artist and the highest gross. He became the first artist to sell out six nights at the Stade de France in Paris; in the summer of 2026 he drew more than 500,000 people across France and 450,000 to seven sold-out UK stadium shows; and he played four nights at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium.
Warsaw got him twice: a sold-out PGE Narodowy on 9 August 2023, with 62,007 people, and two more nights at the same stadium on 4 and 5 August 2026.
The last leg
The final leg was billed as "Live in Asia". It was announced in May 2026 with 11 dates and grew because of demand to 17, all sold out: two nights at the Belluna Dome outside Tokyo, then Jakarta, Singapore, Goyang near Seoul, three nights in Bangkok, four in Hong Kong, and the last two in Kuala Lumpur. A week before the end, on 31 October, he released a new song named after one of those cities, “Hong Kong”, with the singer Faye Wong.
The tour at a glance
- After Hours Tour announced: arenas, North America and Europe.
- Postponed twice because of the pandemic, then moved to stadiums.
- Opening night, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia.
- SoFi Stadium: the show stops after three songs. Refunds for everyone.
- *Live at SoFi Stadium* premieres on HBO Max.
- Wembley: 89,179 tickets, a stadium record for a traditional stage.
- Melbourne and Sydney, the postponed Australian dates.
- 42 shows in North America; the gross passes $1 billion.
- 65 shows: Latin America, Europe, then Asia.
- The last two nights, TM Stadium National, Kuala Lumpur. Final tally: 176 shows, $1.3 billion+.
How it compares
Only three tours have ever passed $1 billion. The Eras Tour did it with 149 shows, and Coldplay's Music of the Spheres tour sold more tickets than any tour in history over 225. The Weeknd's, at 176 shows over four years and more than $1.3 billion, is the third, and the biggest ever by a male artist. For how much the road has changed, see the busiest touring years, when bands played more than 200 nights in a year. He played one of his record nights at Wembley Stadium, and he had headlined Coachella back in 2018.
A note on the figures: the final total, show count and country count are Live Nation's, as reported by Pollstar on 5 November 2026. The year-by-year show counts are ours, from the tour dates listed on Wikipedia, which come to 175 rather than 176. Earlier totals are the figures reported to Billboard and Pollstar at the time.
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- Final gross, tickets, shows, countries, records, the Asian leg and charity: Pollstar, 5 Nov 2026 (figures from Live Nation); September total: Pollstar, 21 Sep 2026
- Kuala Lumpur dates: New Straits Times and The Star
- Dates, shows, staging, set lists, grosses and records: Wikipedia, “After Hours til Dawn Tour”, read 6 Nov 2026 (figures from Billboard, Pollstar and Variety)
- Super Bowl LV and Hurry Up Tomorrow: Wikipedia, “The Weeknd”, read 6 Nov 2026
- Wembley record: Wikipedia, “Wembley Stadium”
