50 Cent‘s Final Lap tour has been officially declared one of the most successful Hip Hop tours in history, becoming only the fourth tour in the genre to gross $100 million in ticket sales.
Touring Data has a breakdown, by the numbers, of the final tour of the G-Unit boss’s illustrious career. The numbers, which were published on Wednesday (May 15), reveal that the tour grossed $104,975,322 in ticket sales, with 1,179,753 total tickets sold, and an average price of about $88 per person.
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92 of the 97 shows have turned in their sales figures, so it’s possible that the final numbers will increase some more.
Regardless, Fif joins the ranks of Drake (who had two tours — Aubrey & The Migos and It’s All A Blur — gross more than $100 million in ticket sales) and Kendrick Lamar (whose The Big Steppers tour also achieved that feat) to cross that $100 million threshold. He is also only the third rapper in history to helm a tour that achieved such a feat.
.@50cent's "The Final Lap" is the fourth tour by a Rapper in history to surpass $100 million in ticket sales, joining #Drake's "Aubrey & the Three Migos", "It's All a Blur" and #KendrickLamar's "The Big Steppers".
— Touring Data (@touringdata) May 15, 2024
THE FINAL LAP, @50cent
$104,975,322 Revenue ($1,141,036 avg.)
1,179,753 Tickets Sold (12,823 avg.)
$88.98 Average Price
92/97 Reported Shows#Update— Touring Data (@touringdata) May 15, 2024
These numbers should come as no surprise to industry insiders, who knew the Final Lap tour would be a success back in March.
At that time, 50 Cent grossed $84 million in ticket sales for the venture, and that was just based on figures from 71 of 103 shows.
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Billed as 50 Cent’s farewell as a touring artist (as its name suggests), the Final Lap Tour began in North America last July and later invaded Europe, Australia and Saudi Arabia among other regions.
The 103-date excursion featured support from Busta Rhymes, Jeremih, Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda, as well as surprise one-off appearances from Eminem, J. Cole and even Ed Sheeran.
Busta credited the massive tour with helping him lose weight, joking: “I’m sexy. I lost 37 pounds on that fuckin’ tour. I wasn’t asking if y’all thought I was sexy or not, I just wanted you muthafuckas to understand I’m sexy, period.”
Meanwhile, Yayo revealed that 50 bankrolled the entire tour himself and carried himself with military-level discipline throughout.
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“He don’t smoke no weed, he really don’t drink like that,” the G-Unit soldier said in an interview with Vlad TV. “He’s reading scripts, he’s securing movie deals, he got the Louisiana Tyler Perry big-ass type of studios out there. So when you see somebody working like that, it motivates you.”
