The Weeknd closed his After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, ending a four year run at more than $1.3 billion, the highest gross ever by a male artist. Our full story on the record has the complete numbers, from the 176 shows and 9 million tickets to the Rogers Centre, SoFi Stadium and Stade de France venue records.
Yesterday the story was the total. This morning it is the final night itself, and what the people inside TM Stadium National actually saw as the biggest tour a Toronto artist has ever taken came to an end.
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The Weeknd Tour Gross Record, Settled The Morning After
The morning after coverage has settled the record into its final place on the all time list. Music Ally, in its November 6 live roundup, put the closing gross at more than $1.3 billion over 176 shows in 67 cities, with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour still the overall record holder at $2.08 billion. That leaves After Hours Til Dawn third all time, behind Swift and Coldplay, and clear of the previous male artist mark, Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at more than $939 million, by over $360 million.
The figures themselves rest on the promoter. The Live Nation release published through PR Newswire is the primary document behind every number in this story, and it also carries the tour’s other running total: $8.5 million donated through the XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen. Pollstar’s closing report added one credit the gross cannot show, noting that The Weeknd’s managers Amir “Cash” Esmailian and Wassim “Sal” Slaiby were recently named 2026 Pollstar Impact 50 honorees for their work on this tour, which also won the Pollstar Award for Best R&B Tour earlier this year.
Inside The Final Night In Kuala Lumpur
The eyewitness account arrived this morning. HYPE’s review of the Kuala Lumpur finale, published November 6, reported that Japanese duo Creepy Nuts opened with about nine or ten songs and signed off with a cheerful “terima kasih banyak banyak,” and that The Weeknd came on at 8:52 p.m., a touch after the scheduled 8:30 p.m. start. At the centre of the stage stood the tour’s towering gold statue by Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama, rising over broken golden ruins. Scenographer Alexander Wessely has described that staging as making the stadium “closer to a cathedral than a stage.”
Midway through “Out of Time,” he left the stage, walked into the crowd and handed the microphone to a fan to carry the song, a moment HYPE singled out as the one that explained the night. It is the right song for that gesture. “Out of Time,” from Dawn FM, is the record at the heart of the trilogy this tour was built to carry around the world.
He kept working the room after that. HYPE reported that he worked “KL” and “Malaysia” into the lyrics several times, told the audience this last leg of the tour might be his favourite, and promised Malaysia would not be missed on his tours from here on. For a first ever Asia leg, expanded from 11 announced dates to 17 sold out stadium shows, that promise is the one forward commitment the final night produced.
The Last Songs Played On This Tour
The closing setlist is now a matter of record. JamBase, publishing the finale setlist from setlist.fm data, reported that he opened with three songs from Hurry Up Tomorrow, “Baptized In Fear,” “Open Hearts” and “Wake Me Up,” and that the Kuala Lumpur set also included “Hong Kong,” the Faye Wong collaboration he debuted in Hong Kong on October 24 and released in East and Southeast Asia a week later.
Late in the night the set reached all the way back. He played “Wanderlust” and parts of “Kiss Land” and “Adaptation” from the Kiss Land era, then “House Of Balloons,” from his 2011 debut mixtape, as the second last song of the tour. The final song, the last note of 176 shows across five continents, was “Moth To A Flame,” his collaboration with Swedish House Mafia. Its official video was directed by Alexander Wessely, the same scenographer behind the gold statue that stood over the finale stage.
What Happens Next For The Weeknd
As of this morning there is no next tour and no new album announcement to report, and no post from The Weeknd himself marking the finale in the coverage checked. What exists is a closed record, a promise made in Kuala Lumpur that Malaysia stays on his routing, and one loose thread from the Asia leg: “Hong Kong” remains an East and Southeast Asia release, and a wider global release has still not been announced.
That restraint suits the ending. A tour that started in Philadelphia in July 2022, built first around After Hours, then Dawn FM and then Hurry Up Tomorrow, did not wind down in its final year. It grossed more than $500 million in 2026 alone. Yesterday it became the highest grossing tour any male artist has ever finished. Last night, at the end of it, its singer was down in the crowd handing his microphone to a fan. The record is the headline. That moment is how it closed.
