PRNewswire
Singapore, May 11: Visa, a worldwide chief in digital funds, as we speak introduced a brand new partnership with world music icon The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Stadium Tour, performing because the Official Payment Partner for its Asia leg. The partnership marks a long-awaited return to Asia for The Weeknd, who final toured within the continent in 2018 and continues Visa’s rhythm of music collaborations connecting followers to artists they love throughout Asia Pacific.
The ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Stadium Tour arrives in Asia after toppling business data during the last 12 months – surpassing US$1 billion in gross ticket gross sales and over 7.5 million tickets offered for 153 reveals, making it the highest-grossing tour by a male solo artist[1]. The Asia leg will kick off first in Tokyo on 20 September and can sweep throughout Jakarta, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, and Hong Kong earlier than concluding on 4 November in Kuala Lumpur.
As the Official Payment Partner, Visa will deliver followers of The Weeknd an early alternative to safe tickets for choose markets within the ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Stadium Tour. Visa cardholders of chosen issuing companions can store the Visa Presales on Live Nation for the Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore reveals:
– Bangkok: 19 May, 10AM to twenty May, 10AM BKT – All OkayBank Visa bank cards
– Hong Kong: 19 May, 10AM to twenty May, 10AM HKT – All ZA Bank ZA Cards (Visa)
– Kuala Lumpur: 19 May, 10AM to twenty May, 10AM MYT – All Maybank Visa bank cards
– Singapore: 19 May, 12PM to twenty May, 12PM SGT – All Visa playing cards
Danielle Jin, Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific at Visa mentioned: ‘Visa is proud to proceed bringing superb music experiences to followers in Asia Pacific. The Weeknd is a worldwide star whose music resonates throughout borders. His return to Asia has been eagerly anticipated and we’re thrilled to energy this second with seamless funds and early entry, connecting tradition and commerce so everybody may be the fan they need to be.’
Visa champions the moments that deliver followers nearer to the passions they love, from sports activities and music to trend and leisure. Guided by a fan-first strategy to partnerships, Visa designs experiences that deepen connection and make participation seamless, safe and accessible for audiences world wide. Through excessive influence partnerships, Visa helps form cultural moments whereas enabling easy, cross-border commerce. Visa’s partnership with the ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Stadium tour continues a drumbeat of top-notch music partnerships equivalent to ‘BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG” and the MAMA AWARDS, the world’s no.1 Okay-pop awards, permitting Visa to create extra significant experiences that deliver followers nearer to the artists they love.
For extra info, go to https://www.visa.com.sg/promotions/the-weeknd.html
About Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world chief in digital funds, facilitating transactions between customers, retailers, monetary establishments and authorities entities throughout greater than 200 nations and territories. Our mission is to attach the world by means of probably the most revolutionary, handy, dependable and safe funds community, enabling people, companies and economies to thrive. We imagine that economies that embrace everybody all over the place, uplift everybody all over the place and see entry as foundational to the way forward for cash motion. Learn extra at Visa.com.
About The Weeknd
The Weeknd is a multi-platinum, 7x Diamond-certified artist who reshaped R&B and pop, making him some of the listened-to artists of the twenty first century, with over 115 million month-to-month Spotify listeners and the primary artist to have 31 songs every with over a billion streams.
In 2025 his After Hours Til Dawn tour grew to become probably the most profitable tour in historical past for a male solo artist and has surpassed $1 billion in ticket gross sales and continues to be ongoing in 2026. Named ‘The Most Popular Artist within the World’ by Guinness World Records in 2023, his album After Hours is probably the most streamed R&B album of all time, whereas ‘Blinding Lights’ is the Diamond-certified Billboard Hot 100 track of all time. In January 2025, he launched Hurry Up Tomorrow, the ultimate and most private chapter in his acclaimed trilogy following After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022).
His steady record-breaking charts, gross sales, and streams, headlining the most important festivals and promoting out stadiums globally, together with the 2020 Super Bowl, alongside together with his mysterious public persona, solidify The Weeknd as some of the compelling and vital artists of the twenty first century.
[1] The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Tour Surpasses $1 Billion In Sales
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