RÜFÜS DU SOL played their last show in Toronto — and rewrote touring history

Australian trio RÜFÜS DU SOL have wrapped up the Inhale / Exhale World Tour — and it has become the highest-grossing tour in the history of electronic music. According to Billboard Boxscore, it took $158 million and sold 1.7 million tickets.

The figures were published by Billboard in its own Boxscore rankings.

The scale becomes clear in comparison. The genre’s previous record belonged to ODESZA — $56.3 million and 801,000 tickets. RÜFÜS DU SOL beat that almost threefold and became the first electronic act to cross both the $100 million and the $150 million marks.

What this tour looked like

The run stretched across eighteen months — from March 2025 to September 2026 — and covered 98 reported shows on four continents: from 3,500-capacity clubs to stadiums holding more than sixty thousand people.

The final full stop came on 5 September at Rogers Centre in Toronto: 43,500 people and $4.9 million in a single night. The highest-grossing individual show was the concert at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City — $6.5 million and 64,400 tickets.

“Toronto, on Saturday night I looked out at you and could not handle the gratitude. It is still hard to take in that after two years that was the last full Inhale / Exhale show,” wrote drummer James Hunt.

The band’s agent at CAA, Alex Becket, says he first heard them back in 2013 in a 350-capacity club. In his words, the group has climbed every rung — from tiny clubs to its current stadium level, and that is exactly what sets it apart from the rest of the scene.

The difference, Becket insists, is the approach: RÜFÜS DU SOL are first and foremost a live band that tours by rock logic — a year or two making a record, then two years on the road without a break, and the cycle repeats. The dance scene is usually built the other way round — around one-off big events.

“People say to us: come on, what about Daft Punk? Daft Punk are kings, but the last time they toured was 2007 and they were playing five-thousand-capacity venues,” Alex Becket explains.

Who are RÜFÜS DU SOL

RÜFÜS DU SOL are Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt from Sydney. The band plays melodic electronica on the edge of house and indie, has worked for years as a live line-up rather than a DJ project, and fills the kind of venues electronic acts were traditionally never let into.

Across their entire career the band has taken $173.7 million and sold 1.9 million tickets. But from the stage in Los Angeles Lindqvist gave a warning: there will be no next run of shows until there is new music.

Earlier we wrote about how RÜFÜS DU SOL announced this tour and moved up to stadiums — back then it still looked like a gamble.