Kendrick Lamar‘s 2022 ‘Massive Steppers Tour’ has change into the highest-grossing rap tour of all time.
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The tour took the Compton rapper to arenas throughout the globe final yr in help of his fifth album ‘Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers’. It started final summer time after he opened the brand new period by headlining Glastonbury Competition 2022 alongside Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney.
In a five-star overview of Lamar’s gig in Paris final yr, NME wrote: “[The] tour presents a artistic imaginative and prescient that will boggle the minds of most mere mortals. It’s a shocking, shifting show from a real nice of contemporary rap.”
Now, the @touringdata Twitter account has shared new figures, revealing that the tour has now grossed $110.9million (£89.3m) throughout 73 exhibits with practically one million tickets offered.
It now overtakes Drake and Migos‘ 2018 tour ‘Aubrey & the Three Migos’, which grossed $79m (£63m).
.@kendricklamar‘s “The Massive 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 exhibits.
— Touring Information (@touringdata) April 26, 2023
High Excursions by Rappers:
#1 #KendrickLamar, “The Massive 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
This summer time, Kendrick will take the ‘Massive Steppers Tour’ to festivals throughout Europe and the US.
Within the US, he’ll headline August’s Outdoors Lands in San Francisco alongside Foo Fighters and Lana Del Rey amongst others, then heading to Las Vegas for Life Is Lovely the next month, the place he can be joined on the prime of the invoice by The Killers and ODESZA.
Forward of those occasions, he’ll headline Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee in June alongside Foo Fighters, ODESZA, Zeds Useless and Liquid Stranger, and New York Metropolis’s Governors Ball.
In Europe, Lamar will play Denmark’s Roskilde, Lollapalooza Paris, Poland’s Open’er, the two-leg Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Madrid and extra.
Elsewhere, his lauded 2015 album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ just lately surpassed Radiohead’s ‘OK Laptop‘ as the highest rated album of all time on group overview website, Price Your Music.
