The accolades — and the millions of dollars — keep rolling in for Drake.
The latest record the Toronto rap superstar has shattered is for the highest-grossing Hip Hop tour for his Summer Sixteen Tour with Future.
Drake grossed $84.3 million over 56 shows in 38 cities between July 20 and October 8, according to numbers from Pollstar. The average show on the tour drew a crowd of 19,793 fans who paid an average ticket price of $112.08. In total, there were 752,141 tickets sold.
The numbers would’ve been higher if not for an ankle injury that sidelined Drake from the last six shows of the tour.
Despite breaking the all-time record for Hip Hop, Drizzy just missed cracking the Top 10 out of all genres for 2016, coming in at #11. Beyoncé came in at #2 for 2016 by grossing $256.2 million with her Formation Tour’s 49 shows, while Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band took the top spot with a tour that grossed $268.3 million over 76 shows.
Kanye West’s Saint Pablo Tour was the second-highest grossing Hip Hop tour of 2016, pulling in $52.8 million over 41 shows to land at the 29 spot.
Kanye had previously held the record with Jay Z for their Watch The Throne Tour over 2011 and 2012.
Drake’s now prepping to head back on road for his European tour, which kicks off in Amsterdam on January 21 and ends in Cologne on March 16.
Drake’s promoted the upcoming tour by saying “special guests” will be announced, although Young Thug has strongly hinted at his own inclusion on Instagram.
Well done, Drake! I’m sure Hillary supporters will find a reason to discredit the accomplishments of this hard-word, tax-paying individual while lauding the millions of welfare recipients in this country.
Thats maybe because it was a Pop Tour, not Hip Hop.
I was thinking the same thing. You gotta write your own rhymes to be a rapper.
70% of Fake Drake’s fans wear high heels..the other 30% are queer that wear sandals. #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
“Drake’s Summer Sixteen Tour Was Highest-Grossing Hiphop Tour Ever But…” fuck you dx!
Why, because you didn’t like the fact that it wasn’t as big as Beyonce’s tour?
What better feeling is there than to support your favorite artiste when fuckbois be hating on him? Congrats Drake! Onwards and Upwards!
facts bro! n to think the numbers would have been higher if not for his ankle
Fact is the industry built drake to go number one… he was designed to be your favourite by people who don’t care about music… you fell for it fuck booooooi
you favorite artist? drake? you are gay as fuck
Not all that surprising considering he’s a pop star, not hiphop, and second, it’s 2017 (was 2016), I can’t name the last BIG hiphop tour (dr dres 2001 up n smoke?) and inflataion has gone up like crazy, so of course it’s grossing more….
I lost my anal virginity at this show im a young black male.
Yea no shit when you add little girls to the demograph there’s more people that would go… literally when I hear people talking about drake 90% of the time it’s from someone who doesn’t know a single thing about rap, and all they talk about is how sick of a diss track back to back is… the last big hip hop tour was with aftermath like 15 years ago with dr. Dre, Eminem, snoop and Ice cube.. that’s a real hip hop tour
misss me with that gay shit nigga i like bears