De plus, la saison des stades s’enflamme avec les chiffres globaux les plus élevés jamais enregistrés pour le mois des 30 tournées les plus lucratives.
Par le nombre de billets vendus, il se classe au sommet du classement historique. Les 892 000 billets vendus par The Weeknd constituent la deuxième plus forte affluence mensuelle de l’histoire, dépassant son propre record de 891 000 en juillet 2023 d’un peu moins d’un dixième de point de pourcentage. Harry Styles occupe la première place avec 967 000 billets vendus en juin 2023.
Les deux mois dépassant les 800k de The Weeknd ont été passés dans des stades européens. Il en va de même pour le détenteur du record de Styles, ainsi que pour les quatrième, cinquième et sixième plus grandes affluences mensuelles de l’histoire du classement. Les capacités des stades sont généralement plus grandes à l’étranger qu’aux États-Unis, The Weeknd affichant en moyenne plus de 55 000 billets par spectacle. En revanche, les six mois les plus lucratifs, classés par les revenus, incluaient tous des spectacles en Amérique du Nord.
Le point culminant de juillet de The Weeknd a été une série de quatre spectacles au Stade de France à Paris (8-9 et 11-12 juillet). Ces spectacles ont rapporté 44,2 millions de dollars grâce à 300 000 billets vendus, se hissant sans difficulté au rang de l’engagement de concert le plus lucratif et le plus vendu du mois (No. 1 sur Top Boxscores). En combinaison avec ses deux spectacles au même endroit les 29-30 juillet 2023, la tournée After Hours til Dawn compte désormais six spectacles complets au stade, pour plus de 60 millions de dollars et 450 000 billets vendus.
Par ailleurs, The Weeknd a donné plusieurs soirées à Lille et Nice (tous deux en France), à Amsterdam, Milan et Francfort. Les six arrêts figurent tous sur Top Boxscores, encerclant ses shows de Paris en tête du classement avec deux nuits à Nice, Allianz Riviera (21-22 juillet) classées au No. 30.
Since launching in 2022, the After Hours til Dawn Tour played 141 shows through Aug. 1. Those dates have collectively grossed $910.1 million and sold 7.1 million tickets, making it the fourth-highest grossing tour of all time behind treks by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and Elton John. According to Tesfaye’s team, another dozen shows that have played since and almost two dozen more on the books will make it the third tour to gross more than $1 milliard.
In terms of gross and attendance, it is the biggest tour by an R&B artist and biggest tour by a Black artist in Boxscore history.
The Weeknd is the first R&B artist to lead the Top Tours chart in 2026 and is only the third to do so in the ranking’s seven-year history. He follows Beyoncé, who did it seven times between 2023-25, and Chris Brown, who led a three-peat last year.
Speaking of Brown and R&B chart-toppers, his and Usher’s co-headline The R&B Tour is No. 3 in July with $98.4 million and 538,000 tickets sold. Including the tour’s opening shows in June, plus an Aug. 1 show in Syracuse, N.Y., it earned $115.9 million in its first 16 shows with more than 40 left to report.
Sandwiched between these R&B juggernauts is BTS, at No. 2 with $102.5 million and 582,000 tickets. The group’s four stops in July – Brussels, London, Munich and Paris – land at Nos. 3 and 5-7 on Top Boxscores. As with The Weeknd’s tour, Paris was the biggest, generating $30.6 million from 185,000 tickets.
BTS previously crowned the Top Tours chart in April and May, in addition to two prior wins on earlier tours. After sliding to No. 6 in June with a lighter schedule of shows, a bulked-up run of eight dates (still light compared to The Weeknd’s 14) brings them back toward the top of the list. One month after Bad Bunny joined the club, BTS becomes the third act to gross a reported $100 million in multiple months, in addition to Beyoncé.
This also marks the second time that two tours have grossed more than $100 million in the same month, after the one-two of Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar & SZA in May 2025, both over $150 million.
Since kicking off in April, BTS’ Arirang World Tour has earned $433.2 million and sold 2.3 million tickets over 38 shows through Aug. 11. It is already, by far, the biggest tour of the group’s career and is scheduled to continue through March 2027.
Altogether, the month’s top 30 tours grossed a reported $1.155 billion and sold 8.189 million tickets, marking record highs since Top Tours’ 2019 launch. Beyond the chart’s publication, it’s the highest-grossing calendar month in the history of the touring industry, by reported grosses. Even accounting for unreported figures for Swift’s gargantuan The Eras Tour, it’s highly unlikely that any month in 2023-24 could have caught up.
The previous best was in June 2025, with $1.029 billion and 7.534 million tickets. This month’s figures exceeded the old records by 12% and 9%, respectively.
