The Queen Is Back: Beyoncé Plans 40-Stop 'Renaissance' World Stadium Tour

UPDATE:
Beyoncé Adds Seven North American Shows to ‘Renaissance World Tour’

Beyoncé will criss-cross Europe and North America, hitting 40 stadiums on her ‘Renaissance World Tour’ this summer.

Queen Bey will kick off her run May 10 at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, the first of 15 European dates, which includes plays in Paris, Amsterdam and two nights at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, wrapping the European leg at Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy June 27. The North American run begins July 8 at Toronto’s Roger Centre with plays in Chicago, East Rutherford, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Beyonce’s hometown of Houston. The tour’s last scheduled date is September 27 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans (see the full routing below).

She co-headlined a run in 2018 with her husband, Jay-Z, but this is her first headlining tour since 2016’s “Formation” tour,

Beyoncé tops the list of the highest-grossing Black touring artists with ticket sales topping $1 billion from concert touring during the past 21 years – from her solo treks, co-headlining tours and other concert appearances, according to reports submitted to Pollstar’s Boxoffice. Her overall gross is $1,008,743,477 from more than 9.3 million sold tickets at 441 concerts worldwide.

She ranked No. 5 on Pollstar’s Top Touring Artists Of The Decade list with a gross of $857,405,819 from treks between 2009 and 2018.

Her most successful trek at the box office was “Formation” that played North American and European stadiums in support of the 2016 album Lemonade. She performed 49 shows that year, grossing $256 million from 2.2 million sold seats. The “On the Run II” stadium tour with Jay-Z, follows as a close second with ticket revenue totaling just $2.3 million less. The couple played 48 shows in stadiums on both continents on 2018’s reprise of “On the Run” and moved over 2.1 million tickets. Their first joint tour four years earlier took in $110 million globally from 21 sold-out stadium dates and 979,781 tickets.

The Live Nation-produced Renaissance tour is implementing Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system for the North American leg. There are tweaks from the standard system, much examined in the wake of the Taylor Swift on-sale fiasco.

Verified Fan registration is open here. Members of the BeyHive, Beyoncé’s fan club, will be eligible to register with Verified Fan during the appropriate window. There are also Citi and Verizon Up-associated presales. (see below)

With heavy demand expected, similar to Swift’s “Eras Tour,” the North American sale dates will be staggered, as follows. Ticketmaster has an FAQ, as well.

Group A: Chicago, E. Rutherford, Washington, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Inglewood, Houston

Verified Fan Registration Windows: Now through Feb. 2 at 11:59 pm local.
BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb 6
CITI Verified Fan Presale: Feb 7 at 10 am local through Feb 8 at 6 pm local
Verizon Presale: Feb 9 at 10 am local through Feb 10 at 6 pm local
Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Feb 11

Group B: Minneapolis, Boston, Tampa, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas

Verified Fan Registration Window: Now through Feb 9 at 11:59 pm local
BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Mon, Feb 13
CITI Verified Fan Presale: Feb 14 at 10 am local through Feb 15 at 6 pm local
Verizon Presale: Feb 16 at 10am local through Feb 17 at 6pm local
Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Feb 18

Group C: Nashville, Louisville, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, St. Louis, Phoenix, Kansas City, New Orleans, Philadelphia

Verified Fan Registration Window: Now through Feb 16 at 11:59 pm local
BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb 20
CITI Verified Fan Presale: Feb 21 at 10 am local through Feb 22 at 6 pm local
Verizon Presale: Feb 23 at 10 am local through Feb 24 at 6 pm local
Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Feb 25

CANADA DATES

Verified Fan Registration: Now through Feb 2 at 11:59 pm local
BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb 6
Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Feb 7

EUROPE DATES

Stockholm, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland, Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam, London

BeyHive Presale: Feb 6 at 10 am local through 6 pm local
General Onsale: Feb 7 at 10 am local

Brussels, Barcelona, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt

BeyHive Presale: Feb 6 at 10 am local through 6 pm local
General Onsale: Feb 10 at 10 am local

RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR DATES

May 10 – Stockholm, SE – Friends Arena
May 14 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium
May 17 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Principality Stadium
May 20 – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium
May 23 – Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light
May 26 – Paris, FR – Stade de France
May 29 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
May 30 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
June 08 – Barcelona, ES – Olympic Stadium
June 11 – Marseille, FR – Orange Velodrome
June 15 – Cologne, DE – Rhein Energie Stadion
June 17 – Amsterdam, NL – Johan Cruijff Arena
June 21 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion
June 24 – Frankfurt, DE – Deutsche Bank Park
June 27 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy
July 8 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre
July 12 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field
July 15 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium
July 17 – Louisville, KY – L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium
July 20 – Minneapolis, MN – Huntington Bank Stadium
July 22 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Stadium
July 26 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field
July 29 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Aug. 01 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium
Aug. 03 – Pittsburgh, PA – Acrisure Stadium
Aug. 05 – Washington, DC – FedEx Field
Aug. 09 – Charlotte, NC – Bank of America Stadium
Aug. 11 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Aug. 16 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium
Aug. 18 – Miami, FL – Hard Rock Stadium
Aug. 21 – St. Louis, MO – Dome at America’s Center
Aug. 24 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium
Aug. 26 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium
Aug. 30 – Santa Clara, CA – Levi’s Stadium
Sept. 02 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium
Sept. 11 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place
Sept. 13 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field
Sept. 18 – Kansas City, MO – GEHA Field At Arrowhead Stadium
Sept. 21 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium
Sept. 23 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium
Sept. 27 – New Orleans, LA – Caesars Superdome