The sold-out 42-date run drew more than 2.3 million fans across 11 countries and added fresh proof of stadium-scale demand.
The Weeknd has closed out the Europe and UK leg of his After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour with numbers that put the run in rare company: more than $345 million grossed across 42 sold-out dates, and more than 2.3 million fans through the gates in 11 countries.
The leg ended Sunday, September 6, with the second of two shows at Estádio do Restelo in Lisbon. It was the second time the tour had returned to the region, following an earlier Europe and UK stretch in 2023. This time, the routing leaned hard into multi-night stadium stands, with stops in Manchester, Munich, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Dublin, Paris and London.
Stadium demand held across the biggest markets
The run opened June 11 with two nights at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium and included a five-night stand at Wembley Stadium in London. Across Manchester and London, The Weeknd played seven sold-out UK stadium shows for more than 450,000 fans, including ticket buyers from nearly 150 countries.
Paris was another standout. According to the tour’s organizers, The Weeknd became the first artist to sell out six nights at Stade de France on a single tour. The 2026 performances drew more than 500,000 fans across France, and the tour has now sold out 13 stadium shows in the country across its full run.
The scale of the routing matters. Stadium tours do not get to these numbers without sustained demand in multiple territories, and this leg delivered it market after market. The repeated multi-night holds also show how the tour has been built to maximize both attendance and gross, rather than chase one-off headline dates.
Economic impact and charity were built into the run
New figures released for the UK and France alone put the economic impact at more than $618 million, or nearly €532 million, according to the press release. That kind of number is always part concert business, part citywide event. Hotels, transport, hospitality and local spending all ride along with a stadium tour of this size.
The tour also raised more than $2.2 million for the United Nations World Food Programme and Global Citizen. The structure was simple: €1 from every ticket sold in Europe and £1 in the UK went to the two organizations. The tour partnered with Global Citizen to support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, and with WFP to back the XO Humanitarian Fund, which supports the organization’s response to global hunger.
The Weeknd has been a WFP Goodwill Ambassador since 2021, and the announcement says he has donated more than $12.6 million to charity since 2020.
The tour keeps extending its commercial life
After Hours Til Dawn launched in 2022 and crossed $1 billion in global gross last year, according to previous reporting by Music Business Worldwide. At that point, the tour had sold more than 7.5 million tickets across 153 shows, and Live Nation has described it as the highest-grossing tour by a male solo artist.
Since then, the production has kept moving across North America, Europe, the UK, Latin America and Australia, with The Weeknd returning for second runs in nearly every territory. In July, the tour topped Billboard’s monthly Boxscore chart, grossing more than $120 million and selling nearly 900,000 tickets in the month, according to the announcement.
This leg also carried a visual signature: a 40-foot art sculpture designed by Hajime Sorayama, hand-carved from polystyrene in Toyama, Japan, and finished in gold.
The final stretch now moves to Asia, opening September 19 in Tokyo before stops in Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. The Asian run was expanded from 11 to 17 dates, with added shows in Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
The touring machine is still running alongside a broader business story. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, saw “Blinding Lights” become the first song to reach 5 billion streams on Spotify in 2025. In December 2025, he closed a reported $1 billion deal with Lyric Capital Group that brought outside investment into his music catalog while he and his team retained creative control. He also signed a long-term publishing agreement with Universal Music Group in 2022 covering his catalog and future works.
