Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts earlier in December, ranking the top tours, venues and promoters of 2025. We’re breaking it down further, looking at the biggest live acts, genre by genre. Now, we continue with rap.
Last year, rap doubled its share within the top 100 tours. It makes another leap in 2025, up to 7.7% due to $693.4 million from six tours on the all-genre chart.
Still, the genre’s year-end top 10 doesn’t tell the whole story. Travis Scott grossed more than $40 million during the ’25 tracking period, but that is just a small percentage of the Circus Maximus Tour’s record-breaking nine-figure grosses. YoungBoy Never Broke Again brought in $28 million in the first month of his debut arena tour, but it has continued throughout the fall, doubling and then some.
The biggest rap tour of the year is by the same act who leads year-end charts for Top Rap Albums, Hot Rap Songs and Top Rap Artists. He caps an enormous two-year run that included the highest grossing rap tour in history.
This year’s top 10 rap acts span generations, ranging from Wu-Tang Clan’s early ‘90s debut to the 2020s emergence of the United Kingdom’s Central Cee.
Keep reading to check out the 10 highest grossing tours by rap acts, with such acts qualifying due to recent performance on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums and/or Hot Rap Songs charts. Rankings are determined according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. All reported shows worldwide between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, are eligible.
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Central Cee

Image Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Tour: Can’t Rush Greatness World Tour
Where: Europe, North America & OceaniaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $14.9M
Tickets: 223,000
Shows: 42 -
Rod Wave

Image Credit: Prince Williams/WireImage Tour: Last Lap Tour & The Redemption Experience
Where: United StatesYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $21.6M
Tickets: 165,000
Shows: 11 -
Don Toliver

Image Credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis/Getty Ima Tour: Psycho Tour
Where: North America & EuropeYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $24.8M
Tickets: 333,000
Shows: 43 -
YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Image Credit: Erika Goldring/Getty Images Tour: Make America Slime Again Tour
Where: United StatesYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $28.3M
Tickets: 231,000
Shows: 17 -
Wu-Tang Clan

Image Credit: Scott Legato/Getty Images Tour: Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber
Where: U.S. & CanadaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $30.6M
Tickets: 245,000
Shows: 27 -
Travis Scott

Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Tour: Circus Maximus Tour
Where: New Jersey & OceaniaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $41.2M
Tickets: 352,000
Shows: seven -
$uicideboy$

Image Credit: Christopher Polk for Variety Tour: Grey Day Tour
Where: U.S. & CanadaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $43.5M
Tickets: 601,000
Shows: 46 -
Nelly

Image Credit: Manny Carabel/Getty Images Tour: Where The Party At Tour
Where: Australia, Europe & North AmericaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $44.9M
Tickets: 470,000
Shows: 51 -
Tyler, The Creator

Image Credit: Shaun Llewellyn Tour: Chromakopia: The World Tour
Where: U.S. & Canada, Europe, Oceania, AsiaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $174.5M
Tickets: 1,300,000
Shows: 98 -
Kendrick Lamar

Image Credit: Greg Noire/pgLang Tour: Grand National Tour
Where: North America, Europe & South AmericaYEAR-END TOTALS
Gross: $369.6M
Tickets: 1,900,000
Shows: 42











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