July 2026 marks The Weeknd’s fifteenth look on Billboard’s month-to-month High Excursions chart, all for the reason that kickoff of his ongoing After Hours til Daybreak Tour (2022-present). It’s his thirteenth time within the high 10, ninth within the high 5, and seventh within the high three. However that is his very first time at No. 1 with the highest-grossing and best-selling tour of the month.
Plus, stadium season heats up with best-ever total figures for the month’s high 30 excursions.
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In accordance with figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, The Weeknd grossed $124.4 million and offered 892,000 tickets throughout 16 exhibits throughout July. Greater than 4 years deep on his stadium world tour, it’s his greatest month-to-month take but. Lower than 1% forward of Dangerous Bunny’s $123.7 million from September 2022, it’s the largest one-month gross by a solo male act for the reason that High Excursions chart’s 2019 launch. Amongst all acts, it ranks seventh.
By tickets offered, it’s greater on the all-time leaderboard. The Weeknd’s 892,000 is the second greatest one-month attendance determine, beating his personal 891,000 from July 2023 by lower than one tenth of a share level. Harry Kinds has the lead with 967,000 tickets offered in June 2023.
Each of The Weeknd’s 800k+ months have been spent in European stadiums. The identical goes for Kinds’ record-holder, in addition to the fourth, fifth, and sixth greatest month-to-month attendance counts within the chart’s historical past. Stadium capacities are usually larger overseas than in the USA, with The Weeknd averaging greater than 55,000 tickets per present. Against this, the six greatest months ranked by income every included exhibits in North America.
The spotlight of The Weeknd’s July was a four-show run at Paris’ Stade de France (July 8-9 and 11-12). These exhibits introduced in $44.2 million from 300,000 tickets offered, simply reigning because the month’s highest-grossing and best-selling live performance engagement (No. 1 on High Boxscores). Mixed along with his two exhibits on the similar venue on July 29-30, 2023, the After Hours til Daybreak Tour now counts a file six offered out exhibits on the stadium with greater than $60 million and 450,000 tickets.
Elsewhere, The Weeknd performed a number of nights in Lille and Good (each in France), Amsterdam, Milan, and Frankfurt. All six stops seem on High Boxscores, bookending his Paris exhibits at No. 1 with two nights at Good’s Allianz Riviera (July 21-22) at No. 30.
Since launching in 2022, the After Hours til Daybreak Tour performed 141 exhibits by way of Aug. 1. These dates have collectively grossed $910.1 million and offered 7.1 million tickets, making it the fourth-highest grossing tour of all time behind treks by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and Elton John. In accordance with Tesfaye’s workforce, one other dozen exhibits which have performed since and virtually two dozen extra on the books will make it the third tour to gross greater than $1 billion.
When it comes to gross and attendance, it’s the greatest tour by an R&B artist and largest tour by a Black artist in Boxscore historical past.
The Weeknd is the primary R&B artist to steer the High Excursions chart in 2026 and is simply the third to take action within the rating’s seven-year historical past. He follows Beyoncé, who did it seven occasions between 2023-25, and Chris Brown, who led a three-peat final 12 months.
Talking 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 offered. Together with the tour’s opening exhibits in June, plus an Aug. 1 present in Syracuse, N.Y., it earned $115.9 million in its first 16 exhibits with greater 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 4 stops in July – Brussels, London, Munich and Paris – land at Nos. 3 and 5-7 on High Boxscores. As with The Weeknd’s tour, Paris was the largest, producing $30.6 million from 185,000 tickets.
BTS beforehand topped the High Excursions chart in April and Could, along with two prior wins on earlier excursions. After sliding to No. 6 in June with a lighter schedule of exhibits, a bulked-up run of eight dates (nonetheless mild in comparison with The Weeknd’s 14) brings them again towards the highest of the checklist. One month after Dangerous Bunny joined the membership, BTS turns into the third act to gross a reported $100 million in a number of months, along with Beyoncé.
This additionally marks the second time that two excursions have grossed greater than $100 million in the identical month, after the one-two of Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar & SZA in Could 2025, each over $150 million.
Since kicking off in April, BTS’ Arirang World Tour has earned $433.2 million and offered 2.3 million tickets over 38 exhibits by way of Aug. 11. It’s already, by far, the largest tour of the group’s profession and is scheduled to proceed by way of March 2027.
Altogether, the month’s high 30 excursions grossed a reported $1.155 billion and offered 8.189 million tickets, marking file highs since High Excursions’ 2019 launch. Past the chart’s publication, it’s the highest-grossing calendar month within the historical past of the touring trade, by reported grosses. Even accounting for unreported figures for Swift’s gargantuan The Eras Tour, it’s extremely unlikely that any month in 2023-24 might have caught up.
The earlier finest was in June 2025, with $1.029 billion and seven.534 million tickets. This month’s figures exceeded the outdated data by 12% and 9%, respectively.
