Music Ally: Diljit Dosanjh breaks own record with North American leg of ‘Aura’ tour

Skip to content Home » South Asia » Diljit Dosanjh breaks own record with North American leg of ‘Aura’ tour Attendance and revenue figures for tours by Indian acts are hard to come by. Among the exceptions are the record-breaking runs by Diljit Dosanjh. The 15-date, 13-city North American leg of the Punjabi singer’s Aura World Tour, which was held between 23 April and 21 June, drew more than 225,000 attendees and grossed $32m, says promoter Live Nation. Those numbers surpassed the $27m sum earned by his 2024 Dil-Luminati shows, which previously stood as “the highest-grossing North American tour by a Punjabi artist”. Diljit is not done yet. In September, he will reportedly become the first South Asian act to stage a stand-alone concert at London’s Wembley Stadium. The 90k-capacity venue will mark the largest performance outside of India by a Punjabi artist, again a record first achieved by Dosanjh when over 54k people flocked to his show at the BC Place stadium in Vancouver in 2024 during the Dil-Luminati tour. It’s been a pretty good year so far for the singer and actor. His latest Hindi film, Main Vaapas Aaunga has not only garnered rave reviews, but word-of-mouth has helped the movie beat the odds and increase footfalls during its second week of release, despite opening to a slow start at the box-office.