Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour — her first solo tour since 2016 — kicks off Might 10 in Sweden. The “Alien Famous person” singer introduced the 43-show outing on Instagram Wednesday.
The tour makes a number of stops in Europe and options one efficiency in Canada earlier than an extended string of U.S. reveals begins July 12 in Philadelphia, PA. No New York Metropolis dates are scheduled, although the 41-year-old hitmaker is slated to cease by MetLife Stadium on July 29. The Renaissance World Tour will shut in New Orleans, LA., Sept. 27.
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Beyoncé carried out her first live performance since 2018 final week at a resort opening in Dubai, the place the Hollywood Reporter stated she didn’t do any songs from her “Renaissance” album launched in July. She hasn’t launched any music movies to help her seventh album both, which didn’t cease singles together with “Break My Soul” and “Cuff It” from changing into hits.
“Renaissance” earned 9 Grammy nominations for Beyoncé, bringing her lifetime complete to 88 — a quantity matched solely be her husband Jay-Z. The 28-time Grammy winner wants 4 wins at Sunday’s award ceremony to surpass conductor Georg Solti’s for all-time Grammy awards.
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Earlier than releasing “Renaissance” in July, Beyoncé known as the album a “secure place” throughout tough occasions.
“Creating this album allowed me a spot to dream and to seek out escape throughout a scary time for the world,” she wrote on her web site. “It allowed me to be at liberty and adventurous in a time when little else was transferring. My intention was to create a secure place, a spot with out judgment. A spot to be freed from perfectionism and overthinking. A spot to scream, launch, really feel freedom. It was a gorgeous journey of exploration.”
Beyoncé final toured in 2018 with Jay-Z. Their co-headlined “On the Run II” offered almost 2.18 million tickets, in keeping with Billboard. It too included no New York Metropolis performances, which didn’t sit nicely with some followers on social media. Others famous MetLife Stadium — positioned in close by East Rutherford, N.J. and residential to the New York Giants — seats greater than 82,000 individuals.
Followers on-line additionally puzzled if Ticketmaster shall be up for the job of promoting seats after November’s Taylor Swift debacle. Many would-be concert-goers tried for hours to buy seats within the Eras Tour presale, but got here away emptyhanded.
The ticket-selling large posted “verified fan” registration info on its web site Wednesday. Ticketmaster has opted to stagger the presale occasion over three consecutive Thursdays to assist stop a repeat of the bot-swarming overload it blamed largely for the Swift tickets breakdown.
