By numbers: Drake’s five highest-grossing tours
Say what you like about Drake, but the man knows how to fill an arena. Whether as a solo headliner, or as part of a shared bill, he’s one of the biggest draws in all of popular music, and his tours are consequently very lucrative indeed.
Ever since he first emerged onto the scene, Drake hasn’t had much time to slow down. If he isn’t in the studio, he tends to be gigging. He’s headlined six of his own tours since 2010’s Away from Home Tour, which was his first at the top of the bill, while he’s also co-headlined six since 2009’s America’s Most Wanted Tour, which he did alongside several of his fellow Young Money artists.
His most recent tour, the Some Special Shows 4 U tour, was a shared effort with PartyNextDoor, with the pair playing songs from their 2025 album Some Sexy Songs 4 U. It is not yet clear how much money this particular tour made, given how recent it was, but one can presume it didn’t do too badly. Drake’s tours, at least since he became a superstar, have tended to be enormous money-makers.
Given the financial data available, we have a sense of just how much money Drake’s tours make. So, with the exception of the 2025 shows, here’s a rundown of his five most financially successful tours ever.
5. Boy Meets World Tour
The Boy Meets World Tour, Drake’s fifth headlining run of shows, was a big one to support the 2016 album Views and the following year’s More Life mixtape. It began in early 2017 in Amsterdam, and, in a circular fashion, this first European leg ended in precisely the same place, concluding in the Dutch capital two months later. Young Thug and dvsn had been the support acts at various stages along the way. The tour eventually went to Australia and New Zealand, too, beginning there in November 2017 and seeing Boi-1da and Pi’erre Bourne support.
The tour made a lot of money in ticket sales. It’s believed that some $55 million or so was generated, but it’s possible that this is an underestimate. It does seem that this figure fails to account for nine other shows that formed a part of the tour, so the true total, in actual fact, may be a bit higher. In any case, the Boy Meets World Tour was a healthy one.
4. Would You Like a Tour?
The string of gigs known as the Would You Like a Tour? took place over a significant period of time, beginning in October 2013 and ending, finally, in March 2015. That was a long stretch on the road, with Drake hitting up North America, Europe and Oceania along the way. The tour was in support of Nothing Was the Same, his third album, which spawned the hit singles ‘Started from the Bottom’ and ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home.’ His opening acts included, at different points along the way, The Weeknd, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Future, Miguel and Jhené Aiko.
Would You Like a Tour? brought Drake to 39 different cities across three continents, during which time he performed 66 gigs in total. By the time the last show in Australia had ended, he and his team had racked up a lot of money. The reported figure is about $60 million, meaning it almost made a million dollars per show. It fell just short of that average.
3. Summer Sixteen Tour
For the Summer Sixteen Tour, Drake didn’t set off alone. In 2015, he and Future released a mixtape together, What a Time to Be Alive, and, with a solo record each arriving the following year – Drake’s fourth album Views and Future’s own fourth album Evol—they decided to try and maximise on their shared popularity at the time. The Summer Sixteen Tour took place before the Boy Meets World Tour, and it saw Drake and Future perform 60 shows around North America.
The pair were known to welcome some high-profile guests on the tour, too. At one point or another, stars as big as Rihanna, Kanye West, Ice Cube, Gucci Mane, TI, and Usher, all made an appearance, and those are just the heavy-hitters. Plenty of others played their part in the run of gigs. It was a record-breaking tour for the time, believed to have made at least $84 million, but that record was short-lived. Drake himself would break it in just a few years’ time.
2. Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour
The Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour had knocked its predecessor, the Summer Sixteen Tour, off of its perch by the time it’d concluded in Atlanta in November 2018. The tour, co-headlined alongside Migos, was a big one for all involved, believed to have generated about $103 million. They’re believed to have sold about 877,000 tickets across 54 shows, which helped it to apparently become the first hip-hop tour to ever make more than $100 million.
The tour was in support of Migos’ third studio album, Culture II, and Drake’s fifth studio album, Scorpion, and it was a great success for both acts. But particularly for Migos, seeing as how Drake had already become a megastar by this point. The success of this tour sent Migos into the stratosphere, which makes it all the more poignant to note that the group would soon disband. Following the fatal shooting of group member Takeoff in 2022, Migo was officially disbanded within the year.
1. It’s All a Blur Tour
Given all the other megastar rappers who appeared on the bill for shows on the It’s All a Blur Tour, it’s hardly a surprise that this one made so much money. It was initially conceived of as a joint bill for Drake and 21 Savage, on the one hand supporting their 2022 collab album Her Loss, but also supporting Drake’s own album For All the Dogs, which was his eighth. The tour began in the summer of 2023, with the first leg getting going in Chicago and ending in Toronto that October.
The problem, after this first leg had been completed, was that 21 Savage was subject to travel restrictions at the time, which meant it was necessary to bring in other big names to headline alongside Drake instead. So, for different shows, J Cole, Travis Scott, Lil Baby and Lil Wayne each showed up to add their own twist to the gigs. The sheer weight of these acts’ popularity contributed to this particular tour making an eye-watering $320.5 million.