Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Travis Scott dominate the list of rap’s 5 biggest tours by gross revenue, with Kendrick now holding two spots after his Grand National Tour dethroned Drake’s long-standing record earlier this year. Here’s how the top five stacks up, from Kendrick’s historic 2025 run all the way back to Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s stadium spectacle.
1. Kendrick Lamar’s Grand National Tour: $390 million
Kendrick Lamar’s Grand National Tour sits at the top of the list with a reported $390.7 million in gross revenue across 47 shows in 2025, according to figures cited by XXL. The run, which stretched from April through December and sold more than 2 million tickets, was co-headlined by SZA, though the gross is credited to Kendrick as the highest-grossing rap tour in history.
2. Drake’s It’s All A Blur Tour: $320 million
Before Kendrick’s Grand National Tour took over, Drake’s It’s All A Blur Tour held the record for years. The trek, which featured 21 Savage and ran across 2023 and 2024, grossed $320.5 million from 1.325 million tickets sold over 80 shows, making it the previous benchmark for hip-hop touring revenue.
3. Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour: $265 million
Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour closed out in late 2025 as the highest-grossing solo rap tour ever at the time, banking $265 million in global revenue, according to Billboard. The distinction of “solo” matters here, since the tours ahead of it on this list were either co-headlined or duo efforts.
4. Jay-Z & Beyoncé’s On the Run II Tour: $254 million
On the Run II, the joint stadium tour by Jay-Z and Beyoncé, grossed more than $250 million back in 2018, a figure that held up as one of the biggest hip-hop-adjacent tours for years before the current streak of record-breaking runs from Drake, Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar.
5. Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers Tour: $111 million
Rounding out the list is Kendrick Lamar’s own Big Steppers Tour, which grossed $111 million from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows and briefly held the record for the highest-grossing rap tour at the time, before Drake’s It’s All A Blur Tour surpassed it the following year.
Taken together, the list shows how quickly rap touring revenue has escalated in just a few years, with three of the five entries set within the last three years alone.
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