Billboard’s 2025 year-end Boxscore charts named Kendrick Lamar’s Grand National Tour as the highest-grossing rap tour of 2025. Lamar earned $369.6 million from 42 shows across North America, Europe, and South America, while selling 1.9 million tickets. Following Lamar is Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia Tour, which grossed $174.5 million with 1.3 million tickets sold over 98 shows worldwide. Other notable tours include Nelly’s Where The Party At Tour ($44.9M), $uicideboy$’ Grey Day Tour ($43.5M), Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour ($41.2M), and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Make America Slime Again Tour ($28.3M). The Top 10 rap tours of 2025 span generations, featuring veteran acts like Wu-Tang Clan ($30.6M) and emerging UK artist Central Cee ($14.9M), contributing to rap’s growing share of 7.7% of all-genre tour grosses, totaling $693.4 million from the six major rap tours included in the tally of 2025’s Top 100 tours. (Billboard)
