Kendrick Lamar & SZA Earn Highest Grossing Rap Tour Of 2025

Kendrick Lamar and SZA simply ended the 12 months with the highest-grossing rap tour of 2025, in line with a brand new report from Billboard. The outlet notes that their Grand National Tour introduced in $369.6M worldwide. The rating tracked earnings between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025.

The $369.6M determine is considerably larger than the remainder of the highest 10, with Tyler, The Creator‘s Chromakopia: The World Tour coming in at second place with $174.5M. Other excursions to make the checklist embody Nelly‘s Where The Party At Tour, $uicideboy$’s Grey Day Tour, Travis Scott‘s Circus Maximus Tour, Wu-Tang Clan’s Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Make America Slime Again Tour, amongst others.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA kicked off the Grand National Tour in April with a present in Minneapolis, however earlier than that, they carried out collectively in the course of the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. The tour ended up consisting of 47 reveals throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and South America.

In addition to asserting the Grand National Tour because the highest-grossing tour of 2025, Billboard additionally not too long ago named Kendrick Lamar the highest Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year. That choice was decided by exercise from the weekly Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts dated Oct. 26, 2024, by Oct. 18, 2025. 

Helping safe Lamar’s dominance over the charts was his 2024 album, GNX. The mission featured collaborations with numerous different artists, together with SZA, Dody6, Lefty Gunplay, Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x, Roddy Ricch, AzChike, Hitta J3, YoungThreat, and Peysoh. It debuted at No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and spent seven weeks on the prime.

His collaboration with SZA, “luther,” ended 2025 as the preferred rap track of the 12 months. Additionally, his different tracks, “TV Off,” “Not Like Us,” and “Squabble Up,” ranked inside the highest 5. He additionally held the ninth hottest track within the style with “Peekaboo.”