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Tate McRae Hits New Career High With Nearly $111M Gross on Miss Possessive Tour
The Canadian pop star saw a nearly 500% growth from last year.
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Tate McRae wrapped the Miss Possessive Tour in Los Angeles on Nov. 8. Since kicking off in March, the tour grossed $110.8 million and sold 1 million tickets over 77 shows, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. It’s easily the biggest of McRae’s fast-growing career, quintupling the earnings of her previous tour, just one year ago.
It’s another year in a successive growth pattern for McRae. She’s toured for the last four years, building upon each in every metric. She averaged 1,084 tickets per show in clubs on her reported dates from 2022, before scaling to 2,607 in 2023. Last year, she stretched to 5,999, before elevating to sold-out arenas, with an average of 13,480 tickets in 2025. This is the third consecutive year that she doubled her nightly ticket sales.
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Compounded by surging demand and an ever-increasing ticketing market, McRae’s earnings grew even bigger. She’s up from a per-show average of $26,600 in 2022, to $96,800 in 2023, to $349,000 in 2024, and now to $1.4 million in 2025. She grew by 265%, then 261% and then again by 312%.

McRae’s busy touring schedule has complemented a nearly constant output of new music. I Used to Think I Could Fly was released in May 2022, followed by Think Later in December 2023 and So Close to What in February 2025.
McRae’s numbers have soared on a per-show basis, but she’s also added more dates to her schedule each year, creating exponential growth to her total figures. The Miss Possessive Tour is her first to sell more than a million tickets and gross more than $100 million, and she hadn’t come close before: The tour’s total attendance triples last year’s count of 336,000, and the total gross laps last year’s $19.6 million five times over.
The Miss Possessive Tour started on March 18 with one show in Mexico City before a string of Latin American festival slots. McRae played 26 shows in Europe ($27.9M; 359K tickets) and then 50 in the United States and Canada ($82.7M; 673K). Both regions were up, to say the least, from last year, with North America earning more than seven times its 2024 gross.
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That global growth can be distilled to the local level. In New York, McRae has evolved from one show at Irving Plaza (1,200 capacity) in 2022, to two at The Rooftop at Pier 17 (7,494 tickets in 2023). She played her first solo headline show at Madison Square Garden in 2024 (12,458) and then played three in 2025 (41,503). She also had three arena shows in the Los Angeles area, selling 42,224 tickets at Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., up 612% from last year’s lone show at the Greek Theatre (5,930).
Over the course of three years, McRae has expanded her nightly reach by more than 5,300%. Fellow emerging pop stars have experienced similar growth in the last decade, but it hasn’t been quite as speedy. Both Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa kicked off their latest arena spectacles last fall, two years removed from the end of their previous tours. McRae, on the other hand, has fired off three tours in three years, with no more than six months in between any of them.
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In the eight months since her latest album became her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, she topped the Billboard Hot 100 alongside Morgan Wallen on “What I Want” and scored her first Grammy nomination with F1’s “Just Keep Watching.”
Now, McRae is preparing the deluxe release of So Close to What, set to drop on Friday (Nov. 21). It’s led by “Tit for Tat,” which debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 3 in October. In the year since the Miss Possessive Tour dates went on sale, she’s created enough new momentum to continue this growth into the latter part of the 2020s.
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