Lil Wayne 2008-2009 Tours Gross $42 Million

The final numbers are in for Lil Wayne‘s 2008-2009 North American touring, and it looks like the rapper will have the highest grossing hip-hop tour of the year — and the most lucrative rap jaunt that Billboard has ever tracked.

Seventy-eight Lil Wayne headlining arena and amphitheater concerts in North America from Dec. 14, 2008, through Sept. 6, 2009, grossed approximately $42 million and drew nearly 804,000 fans, according to Lil Wayne tour producer and tour business manager Shawn Gee, who also serves as president of music and entertainment at Sports & Entertainment Financial Group.

“It’s definitely one of the biggest in the last couple of years,” Gee tells Billboard.com, noting that Haymon Events/Live Nation was the exclusive tour promoter for all of the shows. “Our plan was to prove that Wayne was a viable headlining arena artist.”

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Young Money‘s and Lil Wayne‘s “America’s Most Wanted Music Festival” has finally come to an end on Sunday (September 6) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

There has been some good memories from the tour including Omarion’s and Chris Brown’s moonwalk, and also 50 Cent joining Soulja Boy on stage

We have four more pictures for you all and if you managed to make it to a show, then why not leave a comment telling us your favorite bits from the show

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Here are a few more photos of Lil Wayne and Young Money from the America’s Most Wanted concert! Tonight is the last night of the AMW tour in case you didn’t know, but in October, they will be heading to Europe to do a few shows.

PS: Jay Sean tweeted earlier that he is heading to a Cash Money video shoot later today, so I wonder if that means the Birdman, Weezy and Drake “Money To Blow” record Also, Gudda said that when the tour is finished they will start shooting music videos, and I worked out that there will be around 10 So we will have lots of exciting Cash Money/Young Money stuff coming in the future to look out for!

Hit the jump to see more pictures:

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Check out this poster Angry Blue designed for Young Money’s America’s Most Wanted tour above! Live Nation got Angry Blue to design a screen poster for the AMW tour and I think he did an amazing job; just check out all of the tattoos haha. Also, hit the jump to see the official single cover for Drake’s “Forever” with Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Eminem:

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Here are some photos of Lil Wayne and Mack Maine performing on the America’s Most Wanted tour when they where in St. Paul, Minnesota, Wisconsin on September 1st. Shouts to MetroMix for the pictures and don’t forget to check out the gallery to see a lot more pics of Lil Wayne on the AMW tour! The venue was at Xcel Energy Center and hit the jump to see some more photos:

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