Kendrick Lamar has broken his longtime rival Drake’s tour record thanks to his Big Steppers Tour, which pulled in over $100 million in revenue.
According to Touring Data, K. Dot’s Big Steppers Tour is now the high-grossing tour by a rapper as a headlining act in history having earned $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets across 73 shows.
This puts K. Dot ahead of Drake and Migos‘ Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour, Drake and Future‘s Summer Sixteen Tour, Kanye West and JAY-Z‘s Watch the Throne Tour, his own DAMN. Tour and Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Tour.
The Big Steppers Tour began in July 2022 following the release of Kendrick’s long-awaited fifth album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and came to an end that September.
With support from pgLang protégés Baby Keem and Tanna Leone, the tour initially took place across North America, before heading to Europe and Australia and New Zealand.
Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free and Mike Carson were creative directors for the tour, with actress Helen Mirren serving as the narrator. The setlist included songs from not only Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, but Kendrick’s previous albums good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly and DAMN.
Kendrick’s $110.9 million earnings put him ahead of Drake and Migos by a wide margin, with their Aubrey and The Three Migos Tour reportedly grossing $79 million in 2018 from a total of 678,410 tickets sold across 43 dates.
Drizzy reportedly took home $47 million, while Migos’ Quavo, TakeOff and Offset split the remaining $24.5 million.
Tyler The Creator‘s Call Me If You Get Lost Tour became the highest-grossing Hip Hop tour of the post-pandemic era in April 2022.
Billboard reported the tour pulled in $32.6 million, eclipsing J. Cole’s The Off-Season Tour, as well as Omarion, Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, Ashanti, Pretty Ricky and Ying Yang Twins’ Millennium Tour.
In other Kendrick Lamar news, more details about the Compton rapper’s upcoming film with South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker recently emerged.
Above the Line reported last month that the as-yet-untitled movie will focus on a young Black man interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum who discovers his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.
Parker will direct, while Kendrick and his longtime manager/business partner Dave Free will produce via pgLang. Emmy-winning writer Vernon Chatman (The Chris Rock Show, Trigger Warning With Killer Mike) has been tapped to handle the script.
It’s ONLY about the benjamins. Dudes rap about oppression and uplifting the people, knowing the people they’re talking about can’t go to their own concerts lol. Because they value the money above all.
So Goddamn true ……it’s a shame… this is WWF with a Macbeth twist
The same ppl who spend thousands of dollars on designer clothes, but can’t afford a concert ticket. Don’t blame the artist, blame the system
That’s not “the system”. Plenty of artist choose to ensure ticket prices stay at about $50 for lawn tickets. But I do agree, half of “poor people” in USA waste money on things the average well off person wouldn’t ever consider purchasing. Poor people in UsA will buy $5k rims on their car while renting a 3 bedroom house in the middle of a crap neighborhood.
lmao those tickets arent SUPER EXPENSIVE. People who want to go are given the tour dates well in advanced and have MONTHS to save up 200-300 bucks. Ya’ll complain and have no problem spending thousands on games and shoes lol. And Kendrick not the only person getting paid, theres hundreds of people involved in these shows wo are also getting paid, don’t be silly. Stop making this a black issue, cause I’m sure you don’t say a word to artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, etc
How tf did he make it a BLACK issue? U retarded. You just saying poor people = black? And yeah, IMO, $200 to see a rapper is highway robbery. And no, I don’t spend that on shoes or designer cloths. The nicest piece of clothing I own is a tux from my wedding. My nicest footwear are my work boots, $60.
DAMN: Drizzy reportedly took home $47 million from the total, with Migos’ Quavo, TakeOff and Offset splitting $24.5 million in earnings.
As much as I LOVE seeing Drake take a DOUBLE-L to Kendrick, there’s always going to be a new number 1 with inflation.
It’s because kendrick over inflates his ticket prices. Drake makes his tickets affordable and holds the records for most attended concerts.
Hahahahaha
You know that Em and Rhianna did 6 shows to 350,000 people, grossing 30 million….this was in 2014. This is relative, They could have done 18 shows and did similar numbers to Kendrick….if not more given inflation. Hiphopdx writes non news and the research that goes into could be improved.
You know that Em and Rhianna did 6 shows to 350,000 people, grossing 30 million….this was in 2014. This is relative, They could have done 18 shows and did similar numbers to Kendrick….if not more given inflation. Hiphopdx writes non news and the research that goes into could be improved.
You know that Em and Rhianna did 6 shows to 350,000 people, grossing 30 million….this was in 2014. This is relative, They could have done 18 shows and did similar numbers to Kendrick….if not more given inflation. Hiphopdx writes non news and the research that goes into could be improved.
Drakes gonna take the crown back with his upcoming tour with 21.
73 K.Dot concerts equals around 19 Em concerts.
73 K.Dot concerts equals around 19 Em concerts. Working Hard for the money.
43 shows vs 73 shows??? Comparing apples with apples of just for headlines???