🎤 The highest-grossing stadium tour ever by a male solo artist just confirmed its final chapter — and a Japanese hip-hop duo will be on the bill. Creepy Nuts will support The Weeknd across five Asian stadium dates this fall, starting September 20 at Japan's Belluna Dome. This isn't a random local booking. The Weeknd is a confirmed Dandadan fan who has been playing Creepy Nuts' "Otonoke" on his own Instagram for months.

Japan's Hip-Hop Duo on a $1 Billion Stage

On May 12, 2026, The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye) officially announced the Asian leg of his global stadium run, After Hours Til Dawn Tour. The 11-show run across seven cities — Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur — opens September 20 at Belluna Dome in Saitama, Japan, and closes November 4 in Kuala Lumpur. This is officially the final leg before the tour shuts down for good.

Confirmed alongside the date announcement: Creepy Nuts will support on five of the eleven shows — Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, and the Kuala Lumpur finale. (Jakarta and Hong Kong dates will not feature Creepy Nuts.) Osaka-based DJ ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U joins the Tokyo, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur stops.

The scale here is hard to overstate. Since launching in July 2022, After Hours Til Dawn has played 153 shows, sold over 7.5 million tickets, and grossed more than $1 billion globally — making it the highest-grossing tour ever by a male solo artist. The tour has already spanned North America twice, plus Europe, the UK, Latin America, and Australia. Asia closes the chapter.

Why The Weeknd Picked Creepy Nuts

This booking didn't come from nowhere. The Weeknd has been quietly building a Japanese cultural footprint that surprises even longtime fans.

In April 2026, both Creepy Nuts and ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U made their Coachella debuts across the festival's two weekends. The Weeknd publicly shouted out ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U on Instagram ahead of his Sahara Tent set. Then, on his "secondary" account gene.hackerman, The Weeknd posted Junji Ito's anniversary illustration for the manga Dandadan with Creepy Nuts' anime theme "Otonoke" playing in the background. He has also been photographed at Tokyo's Science SARU animation studio — the studio behind the Dandadan anime.

In other words, this isn't a label arrangement or a market-fit booking. The Weeknd is a Dandadan fan and a Creepy Nuts listener, and his support choices reflect personal taste. Japanese fans see a strong parallel here: his last Japan show, in December 2018, had Kenshi Yonezu — Japan's biggest songwriter — as the opener. The pattern of picking respected Japanese acts rather than generic openers continues.

The Creepy Nuts Trajectory

Creepy Nuts is the duo of rapper R-Shitei and turntablist DJ Matsunaga. R-Shitei is a five-time winner of Japan's ULTIMATE MC BATTLE Osaka regional and three-peat Grand Champion. DJ Matsunaga won the DMC World DJ Championship battle category in 2019 — the world's top turntable competition.

Their global breakout came with "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born," the opening theme for the 2024 anime MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES Season 2. The accompanying TikTok dance challenge went viral worldwide, with the track charting on Spotify Global. Their next anime theme, "Otonoke" for Dandadan (2024), repeated the feat.

In early 2026, Creepy Nuts became the first Japanese artists to earn RIAA Gold certification for two separate Japanese-language tracks — a milestone for a non-English-language hip-hop act in the US market. Their 2025 Asia tour (five cities, seven shows) and 2026 North American tour (Coachella plus headline shows in New York, Chicago, and Mexico City) cemented their position as one of the most internationally visible Japanese acts of this cycle.

Ticket Information

Japanese tickets carry premium pricing reflecting the scale of the production. The top PLATINUM seat is ¥128,955 (approximately $821 USD at current rates). The venue is Belluna Dome (formerly Seibu Dome) in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, with doors at 15:00 and showtime at 17:00.

Sale Date
Artist Presale (first-come) May 18 from 12:00 JST
Pia Lottery Presale May 24 – June 7
General sale TBA

Across other Asian markets, Visa Presale starts May 18 with general sale on May 21.

Full Asia Tour Schedule

Date City Venue Creepy Nuts
Sept 20 Tokyo (Saitama) Belluna Dome ✓
Sept 26–27 Jakarta Jakarta International Stadium —
Oct 2–3 Singapore National Stadium ✓
Oct 7–8 Seoul Goyang Stadium ✓
Oct 11 Bangkok Rajamangala Stadium ✓
Oct 30–31 Hong Kong Kai Tak Stadium —
Nov 4 Kuala Lumpur TM Stadium National ✓

The setlist spans The Weeknd's After Hours / Dawn FM / Hurry Up Tomorrow trilogy, with cinematic production featuring a massive moon and a ruined-city stage architecture. A portion of every ticket sold goes to the XO Humanitarian Fund and Global Citizen — the tour has already contributed over $8.5 million to humanitarian causes.

In Your Country?

Indonesian and Hong Kong fans of Creepy Nuts have already started asking why their cities miss out, and Indian fans are once again voicing frustration that India was skipped entirely from the tour. Meanwhile, fans in Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur are getting one of the most ambitious cultural pairings of the year — a global pop juggernaut bookended by Japanese-language hip-hop. Would you want to see Creepy Nuts at a stadium show in your country, opening for a Western superstar? Or do you think local acts should fill those slots? How is this news landing where you live?

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