The Weeknd extended its four-city tour of Australia and New Zealand due to “unprecedented demand” for tickets. Last month, the Canadian star announced four shows in Australia’s three biggest cities on the east coast: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. And including one single date in Auckland, New Zealand. However, on Monday the itinerary increased to 10 performances, again in these four cities.
The Live Nation-produced The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which also stopped in Italy for two 80,000-seat shows, will now include three shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium (the first two sold out) and Melbourne’s Marvel Arena. . And two at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. As previously reported, Mike Dean and Chxrry22 will be special guests at all concerts.
Following the completion of their Australian tour, The Weeknd will travel to New Zealand, where they will play two dates at Eden Park in Auckland in December. After the tour was announced on August 22, The Weeknd’s repertoire streaming doubled on streaming platforms. Raising a number of his records in the ARIA charts.
Ticketing giants Ticketek and Ticketmaster achieved impressive traffic on their platforms during The Weeknd tour. According to Ticketmaster, there were 122,000 people in line for the Melbourne shows when the first presale began. When the first lot sold out, more than 100,000 Melbourne fans lined up.
Ticketmaster NZ had the highest number of unique users and page views of any listing this year, with 165,000 users and 647,000 page views. In addition, presale demand from Vodafone Australia and One NZ customers was unprecedented in their history.
Not Just The Weeknd: Ed Sheeran’s Tour Record
As impressive as The Weeknd’s 10-day stadium tour in both markets was, it falls short of Ed Sheeran’s 2018 Divide tour, during which he played 18 stadium shows in Australia and New Zealand. Ed Sheeran sold over a million tickets, setting a new record breaking the old record for most AC/DC stadium appearances in a single tour (14).