Recent off her massive win for album of the yr on the Grammys on Sunday evening, Beyoncé has extra information: A brand new stadium tour is on the way in which supporting that 2024 LP, “Cowboy Carter.”
The genre-bending celebrity introduced on Monday that her subsequent tour would open in Los Angeles on April 28 and proceed for 22 reveals in eight cities, together with two stops abroad in London and Paris, wrapping on July 11 in Atlanta. Presales start on Feb. 11, and basic ticket gross sales begin on Feb. 14 by way of Beyoncé’s web site.
Beyoncé’s Instagram merely posted a poster itemizing the cities with the caption, “She coming.”
The tour is Beyoncé’s first since her 56-date Renaissance World Tour in 2023, which bought $580 million in tickets. Like “Renaissance,” Beyoncé’s final album — Act I of an introduced trilogy, with “Cowboy Carter” as Act II — the elaborately staged tour drew on many years of retro dance model. It had a high-concept sci-fi look that, in a overview in The New York Occasions, Lindsay Zoladz mentioned “conjured Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ by means of the 1990 drag ball documentary ‘Paris Is Burning.’”
Information of the tour was delayed by the wildfires in California. After acting at halftime of an N.F.L. sport on Christmas, Beyoncé teased the date of Jan. 14 on social media, with imagery, straight from the “Cowboy Carter” cowl — Beyoncé waving an American flag atop a pale horse — that led followers to take a position a couple of tour tied to her most up-to-date album. However when that day got here, the star mentioned her announcement had been “postponed to a later date because of the devastation brought on by the continuing wildfires round areas of Los Angeles.” (On the similar time, her BeyGood Basis additionally introduced a $2.5 million donation for displaced households in Altadena, a traditionally Black neighborhood that has been decimated by the Eaton fireplace.)
“Cowboy Carter,” which Beyoncé first revealed throughout a Tremendous Bowl advert final yr, had been extensively anticipated as her flip to nation music. However critics have hailed it as a broad and impressive tackle American pop historical past, drawing on a number of genres — together with nation — and, as Jon Pareles of The Occasions wrote in a overview, “brazenly interrogating classes and stereotypes and pointedly ignoring formulation.”
The album gained three Grammys on Sunday, bringing Beyoncé’s complete to 35 victories. She stays the artist with most Grammy trophies than some other artist, and is now additionally the most-nominated particular person, with 99 profession nods.