Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers has reportedly becomes the highest grossing tour by a rapper.
According to stat shared by Touring Data, K. Dot’s Big Steppers Tour has made history having earned $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets across 73 shows. Kendrick has been touring in promotion of his latest album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers across the world, earning rave reviews from fans.
This revenue puts the Compton rapper ahead of Drake and Migos‘ Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour, Drake and Future‘s Summer Sixteen Tour, Kanye West and JAY-Z‘s Watch the Throne Tour, his own DAMN. Tour and Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Tour.
.@kendricklamar's "The Big Steppers" is the highest-grossing tour by a rapper as headlining act in history with $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets sold in 73 shows.
— Touring Data (@touringdata) April 26, 2023
Top Tours by Rappers:
#1 #KendrickLamar, "The Big Steppers"
#2 #Drake, "Aubrey & the Three Migos"
#3 #Drake & #Future, "Summer Sixteen"
#4 #KanyeWest & #JayZ, "Watch the Throne"
#5 #KendrickLamar, "Damn"
#6 #TravisScott, "Astroworld"— Touring Data (@touringdata) April 26, 2023
The latest promotion that Kendrick did for the album was drop the ‘Count Me Out‘ music video back in December. He had also built up hype by live streaming his Paris concert in collaboration with Amazon Prime.