After Hours til Dawn Tour
The After Hours til Dawn Tour is the seventh concert tour by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It commenced on July 14, 2022, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, United States, and is set to conclude on September 6, 2026, at Estádio do Restelo in Lisbon, Portugal. The tour achieved several [|venue records] in Europe and the Americas, and as of 2025, it is one of the most-attended concert tours and one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning billion across 153 concerts.
Designed to promote his fourth studio album, After Hours, the tour was set to run in arena venues from June 11, 2020, in Vancouver, Canada, to November 16 in London, England. However, following the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed to 2021 and 2022, respectively, before being cancelled in favour of stadium venues due to the constraint of arenas. The show was continuously revamped to incorporate the release of his fifth and sixth studio albums, Dawn FM and Hurry Up Tomorrow, respectively. An accompanying concert film and live album, documenting the November 27, 2022, show at SoFi Stadium, were released in 2023.
Background
On February 20, 2020, the Weeknd announced through social media plans to tour North America and Europe later that year in support of his fourth studio album, After Hours. 88Glam, Sabrina Claudio, and Don Toliver were announced as supporting acts for the tour. The following month, additional concerts were announced in select cities due to demand. In May 2020, following raising concerns of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, Live Nation announced plans to postpone all concerts to the following year; rescheduled concerts to commence in June 2021 and conclude in November of the same year. Claudio and Toliver were announced to return as supporting acts, with Toliver only performing for concerts in North America; Black Atlass was announced as co-support for Claudio for European concerts, replacing 88Glam. That November, the National Football League announced the Weeknd would headline the Super Bowl LV halftime show on February 7, 2021. On February 3, 2021, four days prior to the halftime show, the Weeknd and Live Nation announced the tour would be postponed a second time due to the continued concern of the pandemic, with 19 new dates added onto the itinerary for 2022. That October, a third postponement was announced, again for 2022, with venue changes from arenas to stadiums. The Weeknd cited ongoing demand and "constraints of arenas" for the change of venue type.In January 2022, the Weeknd released his fifth studio album, Dawn FM. Two months later, the newly-retitled After Hours til Dawn Tour was announced, with Doja Cat serving as supporting act. That May, Doja Cat withdrew from the tour as supporting act, citing required surgery on her tonsils. The following month, Snoh Aalegra, Mike Dean, and Kaytranada were announced as the new support acts. During the September 3, 2022, concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the Weeknd abruptly ended the show only three songs in, claiming to have lost his voice; he promised a full refund of the concert, and a "real show soon". He subsequently issued a formal apology on his social media accounts. Twenty-four days later, the rescheduled concert was announced, in addition to a second concert at the venue. That November, concerts in Europe and Latin America were announced. Supplemental shows were subsequently announced due to demand.
On February 2, 2023, the Weeknd announced that a concert film, titled The Weeknd: Live at SoFi Stadium, would premiere on HBO Max on February 25. Seven days later, HBO dropped the trailer for the film, and announced it would air the concert on the network, in addition to the streaming service. A live album Live at SoFi Stadium followed on March 3 of the same year. That August, concerts in Australia and New Zealand were announced to take place between November and December of the same year, with Chxrry22 and Dean serving as supporting acts. Due to demand, additional concerts in Australia were announced;New Zealand 1"> two weeks prior to the November 20 kick off in Brisbane, the dates were postponed to 2024, citing "unforeseen circumstances". In April 2024, it was announced the concerts in New Zealand were cancelled. That August, select concerts in Melbourne and Sydney were announced with Anna Lunoe added as support act, and dates in Brisbane cancelled.
On January 31, 2025, the same day his sixth studio album Hurry Up Tomorrow released, concerts in North America were announced, with Dean and Playboi Carti as support acts. That September, additional concerts in Europe and Latin America territories were announced for 2026, with Playboi Carti and Anitta announced as supporting acts, respectively. Additional supplementary dates were subsequently announced.
Stage and aesthetic
In a press release to Variety, the After Hours til Dawn Tour "will see most ambitious production to date reflecting the creative journey that continues to unfold for both , creating worlds within worlds as we have all been watching unfold in various television performances, music videos and short films bringing these first two pieces of his trilogy to life." The Weeknd's creative director and childhood friend La Mar Taylor explained in an interview with Variety that the tour would be theatrical and conceptual, saying: "There is a linear story between After Hours and Dawn FM, and I think the audience will walk away with different interpretations of the show. To us, that's the whole point." Taylor described the production as a journey "through a cosmic cataclysm that has erupted and plagued the earth. The devastation is widespread and will most likely continue till dawn."North American leg
The stage design had three stages: the main stage, showcasing a row of destroyed buildings modeled after the Weeknd's hometown of Toronto, and a screen behind them showing visuals of a futuristic post-apocalyptic skyline; the main stage leads to a catwalk leading into a quadrangular stage, which features an inflatable moon over its edge and also unites the catwalk leading into a circular stage. The show displays the Weeknd performing in all three of these stages, with dancers dressed in red robes which either perform synchronized dance routines or stand motionless. At the start of the show, during "Alone Again" and "Gasoline", he wears a mask which the Los Angeles Times described as "creepy" and makes him resemble "a victim of some botched plastic-surgery procedure." Several times during the show, LED wristbands provided to each attendant by PixMob lit up.European leg
During the European leg of the tour, the LED screen was removed in order to place more building statues, making the previous skyline fully physical. The ruined chrome city is described by The Guardian as "a vast metallic cityscape" which consists of ruined landmarks such as Toronto's CN Tower and the Empire State Building. The Weeknd's band members play on top of their own individual buildings, with the Weeknd performing half of the setlist wearing a white coat hoodie and his face concealed by an MF Doom-inspired mask, finally removing his mask before "Faith". The first leg's rusty orange destroyed buildings were changed to shiny chrome skyscrapers, with this leg intended to follow Dawn FMLatin American leg
The skyline behind the band members was removed with a 6-meter high LED screen returning from the North American leg to display visuals for specific songs similarly to the first leg of the tour. The buildings remain chrome coloured with the Sorayama statue, and inflatable moon remain on the stage. The Weeknd's outfit was changed to a sleeveless full body camo suit, with his left arm covered in a metallic arm sleeve along with a metallic helmet with a LED visor, which Complex described as "Robocop-like." The show opened with a dark purple skyline as "La Fama" played in a remixed, vocoded version, with the Weeknd originally wearing a black overcoat hoodie for the first two tracks, until October 7, 2023.Concert synopsis
2022
As the show begins, dancers appear from below the set's centerpiece. Then, the Weeknd emerges from one of the buildings, with a clear face mask, alongside a car-length coat. The intro begins with what Variety describes as an electro version of the opener from After Hours, "Alone Again". Following this, he comes down the stage with the dancers, where the pace of the tour speeds up, as a new-wave take on "Gasoline", from Dawn FM, plays. During the end of "Gasoline", the clear mask face is taken off, revealing the Weeknd's face, as he grins at the crowd.The Weeknd continues performing songs from Dawn FM immediately after, as "Sacrifice" and "How Do I Make You Love Me?" come next, which Rolling Stone writes as if the songs were performed to give both After Hours and Dawn FM "their due", referring to the first songs in the set list only being songs from those two albums. After "How Do I Make You Love Me?" the Weeknd's 2015 song, "Can't Feel My Face", begins playing, as the stage gets engulfed in smoke. Following "Can't Feel My Face", he performs his own verse from Kanye West's 2021 song "Hurricane".