Kendrick Lamar has damaged his longtime rival Drake’s tour document because of his Huge Steppers Tour, which pulled in over $100 million in income.
Based on Touring Information, Ok. Dot’s Huge Steppers Tour is now the high-grossing tour by a rapper as a headlining act in historical past having earned $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets throughout 73 reveals.
This places Ok. Dot forward of Drake and Migos‘ Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour, Drake and Future‘s Summer time Sixteen Tour, Kanye West and JAY-Z‘s Watch the Throne Tour, his personal DAMN. Tour and Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Tour.
The Huge Steppers Tour started in July 2022 following the discharge of Kendrick’s long-awaited fifth album Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers and got here to an finish that September.
With assist from pgLang protégés Child Keem and Tanna Leone, the tour initially befell throughout North America, earlier than heading to Europe and Australia and New Zealand.
Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free and Mike Carson have been artistic administrators for the tour, with actress Helen Mirren serving because the narrator. The setlist included songs from not solely Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers, however Kendrick’s earlier albums good child, m.A.A.d metropolis, To Pimp a Butterfly and DAMN.
.@kendricklamar‘s “The Huge Steppers” is the highest-grossing tour by a rapper as headlining act in historical past with $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets offered in 73 reveals.
— Touring Information (@touringdata) April 26, 2023
High Excursions by Rappers:
#1 #KendrickLamar, “The Huge Steppers”
#2 #Drake, “Aubrey & the Three Migos”
#3 #Drake & #Future, “Summer time Sixteen”
#4 #KanyeWest & #JayZ, “Watch the Throne”
#5 #KendrickLamar, “Rattling”
#6 #TravisScott, “Astroworld”— Touring Information (@touringdata) April 26, 2023
Kendrick’s $110.9 million earnings put him forward of Drake and Migos by a large margin, with their Aubrey and The Three Migos Tour reportedly grossing $79 million in 2018 from a complete of 678,410 tickets offered throughout 43 dates.
Drizzy reportedly took dwelling $47 million, whereas Migos’ Quavo, TakeOff and Offset cut up the remaining $24.5 million.
Tyler The Creator‘s Name Me If You Get Misplaced Tour grew to become the highest-grossing Hip Hop tour of the post-pandemic period in April 2022.
Billboard reported the tour pulled in $32.6 million, eclipsing J. Cole’s The Off-Season Tour, in addition to Omarion, Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, Ashanti, Fairly Ricky and Ying Yang Twins’ Millennium Tour.
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In different Kendrick Lamar information, extra particulars concerning the Compton rapper’s upcoming movie with South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker lately emerged.
Above the Line reported final month that the as-yet-untitled film will deal with a younger Black man interning as a slave reenactor at a residing historical past museum who discovers his white girlfriend’s ancestors as soon as owned his.
Parker will direct, whereas Kendrick and his longtime supervisor/enterprise companion Dave Free will produce through pgLang. Emmy-winning author Vernon Chatman (The Chris Rock Present, Set off Warning With Killer Mike) has been tapped to deal with the script.
