The Weeknd Tour 2026

Inside The Weeknd

The Weeknd is the project that took a faceless Scarborough teenager uploading anonymous YouTube tracks in 2010 and turned him into the artist behind what Billboard now certifies as the best-charting song of all time. Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye in Toronto on February 16, 1990 to Ethiopian immigrant parents, he posted three songs to YouTube with no face, no name, and no press in late 2010 — What You Need, Loft Music, and The Morning — and inside six months had Drake's OVO machinery, a Polaris Music Prize long-list nod, and a Pitchfork review that called the work the most interesting thing happening in R&B. The House of Balloons mixtape arrived in March 2011, Thursday in August, and Echoes of Silence on Christmas Eve — three free downloads in nine months that compressed into the Trilogy compilation in late 2012 and rewrote what alternative R&B sounded like for the rest of the decade. Kiss Land in 2013 was the proper-album debut; Beauty Behind the Madness in 2015 broke him to the global pop top — Can't Feel My Face and The Hills both hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 — and Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey picked up an Academy Award nomination. Starboy with Daft Punk anchored 2016. After Hours in 2020 launched Blinding Lights, the song that sat on the Hot 100 for an unprecedented run and that Billboard later named the best-performing chart song of all time. The Super Bowl LV halftime headline in February 2021 — a single-artist Tampa show during the pandemic — turned the After Hours red-suit-and-bandages aesthetic into one of the most-watched pop spectacles of the decade. Dawn FM followed in 2022, then Hurry Up Tomorrow in 2025 as the announced closing chapter of the Weeknd name itself. This page is the central hub for tour dates, ticket guidance, setlist information, and the cities he plays most.

About The Weeknd

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye grew up in the Scarborough district on Toronto's eastern edge, raised by his Ethiopian-Canadian mother and grandmother after his father left when he was a small child. The household spoke Amharic, listened to Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical music, and ran on the lean economics of a single-parent immigrant family in the inner suburbs. He attended West Hill Collegiate Institute and dropped out at seventeen, moved into a Parkdale apartment with friends, and started writing the songs that would become House of Balloons under the working title The Weeknd — a tribute to the lost weekend he had walked into the night he left home. He posted three tracks to YouTube anonymously in December 2010; Drake's OVO blog reposted them within weeks, and a Toronto music critic named Brian D'Souza ran the first interview without ever meeting him in person. House of Balloons in March 2011 — produced largely with Doc McKinney and Illangelo, sampling Beach House, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Aaliyah — set the template: hollowed-out drums, narcotic falsetto, lyrics about partying that read more like depositions than celebrations. Thursday followed in August, Echoes of Silence on Christmas Eve, and the three mixtapes compiled as Trilogy through Republic Records in November 2012, formalising the deal that pulled him out of the free-download economy. Kiss Land in 2013 was a transitional album that the catalogue treats as a hinge rather than a peak. Beauty Behind the Madness in August 2015 was the moment everything broke: Can't Feel My Face went global, The Hills hit No. 1, the album cleared three Grammy nominations and won Best Urban Contemporary Album, and Earned It from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack picked up the Oscar nod. Starboy in November 2016 — the title track produced with Daft Punk — confirmed he could anchor a stadium-pop project without losing the Scarborough darkness in the writing. My Dear Melancholy in 2018 was a 22-minute EP that reset back toward the Trilogy mood. After Hours in March 2020 launched at the start of the pandemic and Blinding Lights, the lead single, became the song of the lockdown era and the most-streamed track on Spotify of all time. The Super Bowl LV halftime show in February 2021 — held in Tampa with a reduced-crowd pandemic setup — translated the After Hours aesthetic into a thirteen-minute single-artist medley that drew over 96 million viewers. Dawn FM in January 2022 reframed the project as a synth-pop concept album narrated by Jim Carrey as the voice of a posthumous radio station. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour ran across stadiums through 2022 and 2023, his first full stadium-tier global rollout. Hurry Up Tomorrow arrived in early 2025 as the announced closing chapter of the Weeknd persona — paired with a companion feature film and presented publicly as the end of the Abel-as-The Weeknd era rather than a retirement from music. He records for XO Records, his own imprint, in partnership with Republic Records under Universal.

The Weeknd tour dates and live show

When The Weeknd tours at the headline tier, he plays stadiums in every major market the routing supports — SoFi Stadium, MetLife, Rogers Centre, Wembley, Stade de France, Estadio do Maracanã, Allianz Parque, Tokyo Dome, and the full North American stadium grid have all hosted After Hours Til Dawn nights at near-capacity. The 2022 and 2023 legs of the After Hours Til Dawn Tour were his first full stadium-tier global rollout and the production was built specifically for the format: a multi-tier post-apocalyptic cityscape stage, a runway thrusting deep into the floor, a robed masked-character chorus filling out the visual world, and a story arc that walked the After Hours red-suit-and-bandages character through a Dawn FM purgatory and out the other side toward the Hurry Up Tomorrow closing chapter. A typical Weeknd headline night runs roughly 100 to 115 minutes — tight by stadium standards, deliberately compressed around a 25-to-30-song run that braids Trilogy, Beauty Behind the Madness, Starboy, After Hours, and Dawn FM into a single coherent arc with no slack between the album eras. The show leans heavy on pyrotechnics, video work on a building-scale LED rig, choreographed masked-figure tableau pieces that nod directly to the album visuals and the Super Bowl LV halftime staging, and a runway sequence that walks the character through the post-apocalyptic city set. Openers vary by leg — Kaytranada and Mike Dean have anchored multiple legs as warm-up sets — though the bulk of the room is there for the headline run. The Hurry Up Tomorrow cycle reframes the show around the closing-chapter narrative, with the masked-character storytelling pushed further toward film-grade theatricality alongside the companion feature film. If he is touring in your region, the schedule strip above shows every confirmed date pulled from the live feed.

The Weeknd tickets

The Weeknd tickets for stadium tour dates start in the $90–$180 range for upper-level seats at most North American stops on the day of on-sale and climb past $400 for lower-bowl and field GA once Ticketmaster dynamic pricing kicks in across the larger venues. Floor and front-pit packages routinely clear $700–$1,500 face value on Verified Fan releases for the biggest markets — Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Miami, London, Paris — and resale on StubHub, SeatGeek, and Vivid Seats can land higher on Friday and Saturday nights once the on-sale window closes out. Arena-tier dates run lower across the board, with upper bowl in the $80–$140 range and lower bowl typically between $200 and $450. The XO fan club pre-sale opens 24–72 hours ahead of the public window for most confirmed dates, with members getting first-access codes to the closest-to-stage allocations before they clear to the open market. Ticketmaster Verified Fan codes anchor the high-demand North American stops; register ahead of any announced market because the codes are the only realistic path to face-value lower-bowl seats and registration windows typically close several days before the on-sale itself. Set an alert on this page rather than checking once and walking away — Weeknd on-sales clear the best face-value seats inside the first ten to fifteen minutes of every confirmed stadium date, and the secondary market resets upward immediately after. Avoid social-media DMs and any seller demanding Venmo, Zelle, or wire payment outside a verified platform.

The Weeknd setlist

A Weeknd setlist on the After Hours Til Dawn and Hurry Up Tomorrow cycles runs 25 to 30 songs across roughly 100 to 115 minutes and braids the full catalogue into a single coherent arc. The opening block leans on After Hours and Dawn FM cuts — Take My Breath, Sacrifice, How Do I Make You Love Me?, Can't Feel My Face, Less Than Zero — with the masked-figure tableau pieces working through the post-apocalyptic visual world. The middle stretch pulls Save Your Tears, Out of Time, In Your Eyes, and Starboy into the singalong centre, and the Trilogy and Beauty Behind the Madness deep cuts — Wicked Games, The Hills, Earned It, Often — surface for the heads in the room. The closing run anchors around Blinding Lights as the stadium-wide phenomenon, with Timeless (the Playboi Carti collaboration) and a Hurry Up Tomorrow statement cut typically slotted into the encore window. Night-to-night variation is moderate — production-locked stadium shows tend to keep the spine fixed for staging and pyrotechnic cues — but a handful of rotation cuts open up across multi-night residencies and the arena legs when the production scales down. For exact night-by-night setlists, setlist.fm tracks every confirmed Weeknd date with crowd-submitted song-by-song lists usually posted within hours of the encore, which is the most reliable source for what was actually played at a specific show on a specific night.

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