As The Weeknd nears the end of his After Hours Til Dawn tour, which commenced in 2022, the crooner’s trek is now the biggest R&B tour in history.
According to Billboard, the tour has grossed $635.5 million and sold 5.1 million tickets since its launch three years ago. With that, he’s surpassed Beyoncé‘s Renaissance World Tour and Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic World Tour.
Bey earned $579.8 million over 56 shows in 2023 while Bruno raked in $367.7 million across 215 shows from 2017 through 2018.
The Weeknd crossed the $600 million mark following two shows at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on July 30-31. The outlet noted that the After Hours Til Dawn Tour is the “ninth tour to hit this benchmark, and the only one by an R&B artist or a Black artist.” The others all fall within the pop and rock categories.
The Canadian crooner is also the “only [R&B] act and only Black artist to sell more than five million tickets on a single tour.” It is now one of 11 tours to have done so and one of eight to have sold over five million tickets and gross over $600 million.
The tour was first announced in February 2020, but was delayed because of COVID-19. It ultimately expanded to support 2020’s After Hours, 2022’s Dawn FM and 2025’s Hurry Up Tomorrow. The international trek landed in North America first in 2022, then Europe and South America in 2023, Australia in 2024 and circled back to the United States and Canada in 2025.
Its final show is set to take place on Sept. 3 in San Antonio.