The Weeknd Breaks Record for Highest-Grossing Tour by a Male Artist With $1.3 Billion

Variety (11/05/26) Aswad, Jem The Weeknd has broken the record for the highest-grossing tour by a male artist ever, with his "After Hours Til Dawn" stadium tour wrapping with a final performance at TM Stadium National in Kuala Lumpur. That performance brought the final gross to more than $1.3 billion. That total, confirmed by tour promoter Live Nation, is the third-biggest in history surpassed only by Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour (over $2 billion) and Coldplay's "Music of the Spheres" (more than $1.5 billion). The previous record held by a male solo artist was Elton John and his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour, which raked in over $939 million. Read the full story from  Variety .