The Weeknd has closed his After Hours Til Dawn stadium tour as the highest-grossing tour by a solo male artist of all time, grossing more than $1.3 billion and selling more than 9 million tickets, with the gross confirmed by Live Nation.

The tour wrapped this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ending a run that began in July 2022. Across four years, Tesfaye played 176 shows in 67 cities and 30 countries on five continents.

The tour surpassed a record previously held by Elton John. It now ranks as the third-largest tour in history, behind only Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour.

A Final Year Built for Stadiums

The last leg did much of the heavy lifting. Tesfaye sold more than 3 million tickets and grossed over $500 million in 2026 alone, according to Variety Australia. In July, he topped Billboard’s monthly Boxscore chart with nearly 900,000 tickets and more than $120 million.

The tour also stacked venue firsts. He played seven nights at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and six at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, and became the first artist to sell out six nights at Paris’ Stade de France on a single tour. In Asia, a planned 11 stadium dates grew to 17 sold-out shows.

The run carried a philanthropic thread as well. The tour raised $8.5 million through his XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen, including $3 million in 2026 for the UN World Food Programme and Global Citizen.

More Than a Victory Lap

The record lands less than a year after Lyric Capital Group agreed to a catalog deal valuing Tesfaye’s music at a reported $1 billion. The deal covers his masters and publishing through 2025, while he and his team keep creative control. As the tour closed, he released a new song, Hong Kong, with Faye Wong.

The numbers put him in company few touring acts have reached, and alone among men.