Bangkok is getting three nights of The Weeknd. The Canadian superstar plays Rajamangala National Stadium on Ramkhamhaeng Road from October 11 to 13, with shows starting at 7.50pm each evening. Thai fans are the first stop on the Southeast Asian stretch of the run — after Tokyo kicks things off on the Sunday, the tour moves on to Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Bangkok dates get a quality warm-up act too: Japanese hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts have been tapped as special guests, a fun crossover pairing that should give the pre-show crowd plenty of energy.
If you only vaguely know the hits, here's the context. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye started out releasing music anonymously online in 2009, then broke through with three critically acclaimed mixtapes, beginning with 2011's Kiss Land. Beauty Behind the Madness (2015) and Starboy (2016) topped the US Billboard 200 and delivered a stack of number-one singles — Can't Feel My Face, The Hills, Starboy and Die For You among them. More recently, After Hours (2020), Dawn FM (2022) and Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) completed a trilogy that this tour celebrates. He was named the Most Popular Artist in the World by Guinness World Records in 2023, and holds the record as the top-grossing Black male artist in history at venues from New York to Denver, Santa Clara, Montreal, Orlando, Arlington, Houston, Boston, Denver, Edmonton and Orlando.
The numbers behind the After Hours Til Dawn Tour are staggering. Launched in 2022, it has swept across North America twice, Europe, the UK, Latin America and Australia. With the 2026 dates in Europe, the UK, Latin America and beyond added on, it becomes the highest-grossing R&B tour ever — more than 7.5 million tickets sold across 351 shows, grossing over US$1 billion (roughly 33.3 billion baht).
So why should a traveller care? Because concert trips are one of the best excuses for a short-haul break, and Bangkok in October makes a compelling base. Pick a show, then build a long weekend around it: street food in Chinatown, a Chao Phraya river boat ride, day trips to Ayutthaya's ruins. Rajamangala is out on Ramkhamhaeng, so plan your transport back into the city centre after 10pm — the BTS doesn't reach the stadium directly, and taxis surge post-show. Tickets for three-night stadium runs in Bangkok tend to move fast, especially for an artist of this calibre, so locking in seats and rooms early is the smart move.
