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July 2026 marks The Weeknd ’s 15th appearance on Billboard ’s monthly Top Tours chart, all since the kickoff of his ongoing After Hours til Dawn Tour (2022-present). It’s his 13th time in the top 10, ninth in the top five, and seventh in the top three. But this 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 overall figures for the month’s top 30 tours.
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, The Weeknd grossed $124.4 million and sold 892,000 tickets across 16 shows during July. More than four years deep on his stadium world tour, it’s his biggest monthly take yet. Less than 1% ahead of Bad Bunny ’s $123.7 million from September 2022, it’s the biggest one-month gross by a solo male act since the Top Tours chart’s 2019 launch. Among all acts, it ranks seventh.
By tickets sold, it’s higher on the all-time leaderboard. The Weeknd’s 892,000 is the second biggest one-month attendance figure, beating his own 891,000 from July 2023 by less than one tenth of a percentage point. Harry Styles has the lead with 967,000 tickets sold in June 2023.
Both of The Weeknd’s 800k+ months were spent in European stadiums. The same goes for Styles’ record-holder, as well as the fourth, fifth, and sixth biggest monthly attendance counts in the chart’s history. Stadium capacities are generally bigger abroad than in the United States, with The Weeknd averaging more than 55,000 tickets per show. By contrast, the six biggest months ranked by revenue each included shows in North America.
The highlight of The Weeknd’s July was a four-show run at Paris’ Stade de France (July 8-9 and 11-12). Those shows brought in $44.2 million from 300,000 tickets sold, easily reigning as the month’s highest-grossing and best-selling concert engagement (No. 1 on Top Boxscores). Combined with his two shows at the same venue on July 29-30, 2023, the After Hours til Dawn Tour now counts a record six sold out shows at the stadium with more than $60 million and 450,000 tickets.
Elsewhere, The Weeknd played multiple nights in Lille and Nice (both in France), Amsterdam, Milan, and Frankfurt. All six stops appear on Top Boxscores, bookending his Paris shows at No. 1 with two nights at Nice’s Allianz Riviera (July 21-22) at 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 billion .
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.
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