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Beyoncé has announced her much anticipated Renaissance world tour. These charts illustrate her legacy

Music superstar Beyoncé has announced her first new tour in nearly seven years, in which she will take her latest album, Renaissance, on the road around Europe and North America.

In disappointing news for local fans, Australia isn't on the list  — yet.

The Renaissance World Tour will kick off in Stockholm on May 10, travelling across the continent until the end of June.

It will then resume in Toronto in July before wrapping in New Orleans in September.

Beyoncé's last studio tour was in 2016 in support of her album Lemonade .

She released the chart-topping and critically-acclaimed Renaissance , her seventh studio album, at the end of July.

The record — inspired by black and queer dance music culture and pioneers —  is in the running for the coveted album of the year prize at this year's Grammy Awards , which will take place on Monday.

In the charts below, see how Beyoncé has built a record-setting solo career across two decades. 

Beyoncé has most Grammys of all for a female artist

Beyonce leads the pack here, with 28 wins , followed closely by Alison Krauss , with 27 wins . 

That lead widens considerably when we look at Aretha Franklin , who is the third-most awarded Grammy winner with 18 wins . 

She's on track to secure most Grammys ever

Right now, the only person ahead of Beyoncé is the late conductor Georg Solti , who won 31 Grammys in his life.

Beyonce's 28 wins means she's currently tied with producer Quincy Jones.

However, she could very well shoot straight to the top come next week as her album Renaissance is leading the 2023 Grammy nominees with nine nods .

Speaking of Grammy nominations, that's another record she holds

When the Grammy nominations were announced last November, Beyoncé wrote herself into the history books by equalling the record of most nominations of all time . 

Her additional nine nominations brought her total to 88 — tied for the most-ever nominations with none other than husband Jay-Z .

The winners of this year's Grammy awards will be revealed at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 6 .

As for when Queen Bey will announce if she's bringing her Renaissance tour down under, we'll have to wait and see.

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As expected, Beyoncé has announced a 2023 world tour on Instagram, supporting her multiple-Grammy-nominated 2022 album, “Renaissance.” She also released the dates and cities on her official website.

The timing of the announcement, which comes just days before the Grammy Awards on Sunday, sparks speculation that the singer may perform or at least appear on the show. Beyoncé is the most nominated artist for the awards with nine, all related to “ Renaissance .” Sources tell Variety that her husband Jay-Z will perform with DJ Khaled on the show, most likely their nominated song “God Did.”

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Beyoncé has said that “Renaissance” is a three-part project, so it’s possible that the next parts could be another album, a long-form video project or even the tour itself.

Beyoncé’s last full tour was the nearly six-month, 49-date “Formation” tour in 2016, which unusually featured no guest appearances until the final show, at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, where she brought out Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z.

She did, however, stage an epochal “Homecoming” headlining performance at the 2018 Coachella festival — which was postponed from 2017 due to the birth of her and Jay’s twins — for which she was accompanied by a full marching band in a nod to historically Black colleges and universities. That blockbuster performance was later released as the “Homecoming” album and — via a three-project deal with Netflix that sources tell Variety is worth $60 million — a feature-length documentary. It seems possible that a future “Renaissance” video project could be part of that deal as well.

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May 10, 2023 – Stockholm, SE – Friends Arena

May 14, 2023 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium

May 17, 2023 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Principality Stadium

May 20, 2023 – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murrayfield Stadium

May 23, 2023 – Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light

May 26, 2023 – Paris, FR – Stade de France

May 29, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

May 30, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

June 08, 2023 – Barcelona, ES – Olympic Stadium

June 11, 2023 – Marseille, FR – Orange Velodrome

June 15, 2023 – Cologne, DE – Rhein Energie Stadion June 17, 2023 – Amsterdam, NL – Johan Cruijff Arena

June 21, 2023 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion

June 24, 2023 – Frankfurt, DE – Deutsche Bank Park

June 27, 2023 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy

NORTH AMERICA

July 8, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre

July 12, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field

July 15, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium

July 17, 2023 – Louisville, KY – L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium

July 20, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – Huntington Bank Stadium

July 22, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Stadium

July 26, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field

July 29, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium

Aug. 01, 2023 – Boston, MA – Gillette Stadium

Aug. 03, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Acrisure Stadium

Aug. 05, 2023 – Washington, DC – FedEx Field

Aug. 09, 2023 – Charlotte, NC – Bank of America Stadium

Aug. 11, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Aug. 16, 2023 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium

Aug. 18, 2023 – Miami, FL – Hard Rock Stadium

Aug. 21, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Dome at America’s Center

Aug. 24, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – State Farm Stadium

Aug. 26, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium

Aug. 30, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Levi’s Stadium

Sept. 02, 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium

Sept. 11, 2023 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place

Sept. 13, 2023 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field

Sept. 18, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – GEHA Field At Arrowhead Stadium

Sept. 21, 2023 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium

Sept. 23, 2023 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium

Sept. 27, 2023 – New Orleans, LA – Caesars Superdome

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Everything to Know About Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour

B eyoncé’s fans have been waiting for this day: the pop megastar finally announced that she will embark on the long-awaited Renaissance World Tour. She uploaded a post to Instagram early Wednesday morning with the caption: “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023,” and her official website has been updated to show the tour dates. The tour starts in May in Sweden and will hit Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland, before she makes her way to North America. The first date stateside will be in Philadelphia, Pa., in July and the tour will hit the major U.S. cities before wrapping up in New Orleans, La., on Sept. 27.

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Following the release of her seventh album, Renaissance , in July, fans have been itching for a tour announcement, in addition to music videos to accompany the songs. Beyoncé’s last solo tour was the Formation World Tour back in 2016 to support her sixth album, Lemonade . Following that, she went on the On The Run Tour with her husband, Jay-Z, in 2018 after releasing their joint project, Everything Is Love . The announcement of a new tour just before the Grammy Awards on Sunday raises suspicion that Beyoncé might be performing or, at the very least, attending the night’s festivities.

The singer is nominated for nine Grammys at this year’s awards ceremony, which are set to take place on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles. This year, she is up against Adele for multiple awards, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. There has been speculation about whether or not Beyoncé would be performing ever since the nominations were announced. The last time fans saw her perform on a major televised stage was at last year’s Oscars ceremony, where she performed “Be Alive” from the King Richard movie for the first time.

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Beyoncé most recently took the stage for a private concert at the opening of the Atlantis The Royal resort in Dubai in January. However, she did not perform any songs from Renaissance . Also, given that Beyoncé unveiled the album’s title on Instagram as “act [one],” her dedicated fanbase has been busy theorizing what acts two and three might be. Some have hypothesized that the tour would be act two and then a concert movie would be act three. Others have ventured to guess that this is a three-part album and that Renaissance was just the beginning.

Tickets for the concert will not be an easy get if Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is any indication. Beyoncé’s fans can click on the date they would like to attend to register for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program and will then have to wait to see if they are given an access code to purchase tickets to the event. With Verified Fan and the “unexpected” traffic the pre-sale brought to the site, many Swifties likened the ticket-buying process to a warzone. The disastrous rollout drew ire from Swift’s fans and political officials alike. After the ticketing fiasco, the Senate held a hearing to look into whether Live Nation and Ticketmaster have a monopoly over the ticketing industry. This, coupled with the technical problems that Swift fans faced, have Beyoncé fans worrying that finding their way to an actual concert will be nothing short of an ordeal.

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On Her Renaissance Tour, the World Is Beyoncé’s Ball

The pop superstar’s first solo outing in seven years draws on the dance-music cultures that inspired her 2022 album, and her work that led up to that ecstatic release.

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It was a crowd that had come to dance, dressed for a rodeo in the distant future: sparkling cowboy hats, silvery fringe, outré sunglasses and any other sartorial detail that represented “Renaissance,” Beyoncé’s dazzling seventh album and the occasion for her first solo tour in seven years. But as the imperial pop superstar took the stage at the Rogers Center in Toronto on Saturday night for the first North American show of her Renaissance World Tour, she reminded the club-ready audience just who was in charge. Because if they were prepared to move, she was going to make them wait a little longer.

Setting the table for a two-and-a-half-hour performance that was visually spectacular, vocally ambitious and sometimes tonally confused, Beyoncé, 41 — clad in a glimmering chain-mail mini dress — began the show with a nearly 30-minute stretch of ballads and deep cuts that harked back to her past: an acrobatically sung solo rendition of the 2001 Destiny’s Child track “Dangerously in Love,” a bit of “Flaws and All” from the deluxe edition of her 2007 album “B’Day,” and the sparse, soulful “1+1” from 2011, which she belted atop a mirrored piano.

It was a both a display of her vocal agility and a curiously traditional way to start a show centered around an album as conceptually bold and forward-thinking as “Renaissance” — a sprawling, knowingly referential romp through the history of dance music , with an emphasis on the contributions of Black and queer innovators. Here, instead, was a stopover in Beyoncé’s Middle Ages.

As a live entertainer, though, she has earned a fresh start. The Renaissance World Tour shows are some of Beyoncé’s first appearances since her dazzling, commanding performance headlining the 2018 Coachella festival (later released as the concert film and live album “Homecoming”), which served as a kind of mic-drop capstone to her career thus far. It would be futile to repeat that, and difficult to top it. The loose, fluid “Renaissance,” still said to be the first part of a trilogy , represents a new chapter in Beyoncé’s recorded oeuvre. And once the show finally found its center and, however belatedly, welcomed the crowd to the Renaissance, it heralded her maturity as a performer, too.

The show’s look — as projected in diamond-sharp definition onto a panoramic screen — conjured Fritz Lang’s “ Metropolis ” by way of the 1990 drag ball documentary “Paris Is Burning.” After a lengthy video introduction, Beyoncé emerged from a chrome cocoon and vamped through a thrilling stretch of the first suite of “Renaissance” songs; during “Cozy,” most strikingly, a pair of hydraulic robotic arms centered her body in industrial picture frames, like a post-human Mona Lisa.

In May, when Beyoncé began the European leg of the Renaissance World Tour, rumors swirled that she may have been recovering from a foot injury, since her choreography was a bit more static and less stomp-heavy than usual. The Toronto show did nothing to dispel that chatter, but it also showed that it doesn’t matter much. Perhaps because of some constraints, Beyoncé has embraced new means of bodily expression. She brought the flavor of ball movements into the show and served face all night, curling her lip like a hungry predator, widening her eyes in mock surprise, scrunching her features in exaggerated disgust.

Few seats in the stadium provided a legible view of Beyoncé’s face, of course, though the screen took care of that. She played expertly to the cameras that followed her every choreographed move, aware of how she’d appear to the majority of the audience and — perhaps just as crucially — in FOMO-inducing social media videos. The stage itself was breathtaking, featuring an arced cutout section of the screen that made for playful visuals, but its full grandeur was not visible from many of the side seats, making the band and sometimes the dancers difficult to see.

The screen, though, was the point. Beyoncé’s two solo releases before “Renaissance” — her 2013 self-titled album and “Lemonade,” from 2016 — were billed as “visual albums,” featuring a fully realized music video for each track. Again toying with her fans’ anticipation, she has still not released any videos from “Renaissance,” giving the previously unseen graphics that filled her expansive backdrop an added impact, and making them feel more weighty than a convenient way to pass time between costume changes.

Many of the tour’s outfits struck a balance between Beyoncé’s signature styles — megawatt sparkles, high-cut bodysuits — and the futuristic bent of “Renaissance.” She played haute couture bee in custom Mugler by Casey Cadwallader and glimmered in a Gucci corset draped with crystals. But the night’s most memorable look — so instantly iconic that a few fans had already tried to replicate it, from photos of the European shows — was a flesh-tone catsuit by the Spanish label Loewe, embellished with a few suggestively placed, red-fingernailed hands.

Throughout the set, Beyoncé wove interpolations of her predecessors’ songs throughout her own, as if to place her music in a larger continuum. The grandiose “I Care” segued into a bit of “River Deep, Mountain High,” in honor of Tina Turner, who died in May . The cheery throwback “Love on Top” contained elements of the Jackson 5’s “Want You Back.” Most effective was the “Queens Remix” she performed of “Break My Soul,” which mashes up the “Renaissance” leadoff single with Madonna’s “Vogue,” paying homage to the mainstream pop star who brought queer ball culture to the masses before her. (The merch on sale at a Renaissance Tour pop-up shop in the days before the show included a hand-held fan emblazoned with the song title “Heated” for $40. It sold out.)

The show contained moments that sometimes felt conceptually cluttered and at odds with the “Renaissance” album’s sharp vision, like dorm-room-poster quotes from Albert Einstein and Jim Morrison that filled the screen during video montages. The middle stretch, arriving with a lively “Formation,” featured Beyoncé and her dancers clad in camo print, riding and occasionally writhing atop a prop military vehicle. There was a wordless, gestural power in the moment she and her entourage held their fists in the air, referencing a salute that had rankled some easily rankle-able viewers of the 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Show. But if Beyoncé was calling for any more specific forms of protest or political awareness — especially in a moment when drag culture and queer expression are being threatened at home and throughout the world — those went unarticulated.

Beyoncé’s endurance as a world-class performer remained the show’s raison d’être; she is the rare major pop star who prizes live vocal prowess. By the end of the long night — and especially during the striking closing number, the disco reverie “Summer Renaissance,” when she floated above the crowd like a deity on a glittering horse — she extended the microphone to lend out some of the high notes to her eager and adoring fans. “Until next time,” she said, keeping the stage banter relatively minimal and pat. “Drive home safe!”

Even when Beyoncé embraces styles and cultures known for their improvisational looseness, she still seems to be striving toward perfection — a pageant smile always threatens to break through the stank face. Commanding a stadium-sized audience, she was an introvert wearing an extrovert’s armor. That tension is part of both her boundless charm and her occasional limitations as a performer. And it makes moments of genuine spontaneity all the more prized.

Naturally, #RenaissanceWorldTour was trending on Twitter long after the show, but one of the clips that went viral was unplanned. During a rousing performance of her early hit “Diva,” Beyoncé accidentally dropped her sunglasses. She fumbled them for a second, mouthed an expletive as they fell to the ground, and gave a sincere, shrugging grin before snapping back into the choreography’s formation. For a fleeting moment, she seemed human after all.

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Another Ticketmaster war is on the horizon as the BeyHive prepares for battle. After weeks of speculation, Beyoncé has officially confirmed a world tour in support of Renaissance , scheduled to make stops in stadiums across the world in 2023 .

The musician confirmed the news on Wednesday morning. The tour will begin in Europe this May before landing in North America on July 8 with back-to-back nights at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and more.

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The Renaissance tour marks Beyoncé’s first extended stretch on the road since the On the Run tour, which made 48 stops across North America and Europe in 2018. Those shows were proceeded by the singer’s redefining Coachella performance, which arrived as the Netflix concert film Homecoming the following year.

The clips sparked multiple viral moments, the most notable being Beyoncé’s new vocal arrangements on familiar records, including “Drunk in Love” and “Countdown.” The private concert, notably, did not include any Renaissance tracks on the setlist, even the chart-topping lead single “Break My Soul.”

The tour announcement arrives as a saving grace for a starved BeyHive, still yearning for any meaningful visual companion pieces to the singer’s acclaimed seventh studio album. If Beyoncé is heading on the road again, maybe the wait for the music videos she teased in the record release trailer won’t be too much longer.

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“As is customary for her, she layers the album with enough totems to fuel a million think pieces and dissertations,” Rolling Stone shared of Renaissance . “Yet it’s also possible to simply dance and vibe to the music. This is Beyoncé at her joyous peak, and you won’t get it unless you pull the “plastic off the sofa,” “drop it like a thottie,” and enjoy Queen Bey at her thrilling best.”

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A film about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance World Tour' may be the closest Australia gets to Bey this year

It's been confirmed there will be a global release of a film about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance World Tour'

Beyoncé's sister Solange has just performed in Sydney . And Beyoncé has just completed the Europe and North American legs of her "World" Tour – so is she coming Down Under? Possibly not in 2023. But what is coming this year is a film about the concert. 

What are the next dates of Beyoncé's World Tour?

The superstar has been on her Renaissance World Tour through Europe, and she's just wrapped up the North America leg in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 1, 2023. There don't appear to be any other dates on her Renaissance World Tour site . The word "World" has always hinted at the fact that she'll be hitting up other continents. 

When is Beyoncé touring Australia?

This is everything we know: Beyoncé has not yet announced tour dates for Australia.  There are reasons she may not have come here last time she did a world tour , but the government has been sorting those issues out.  Tour promoters previously hinted at Australian dates, with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, as well as New Zealand. The star teased at a potential Sydney tour date, with fans on social media capturing a Sydney countdown clock in her staging for America Has a Problem . The last time she  performed in our Great Southern Land was during her Mrs Carter   tour in 2013 – wouldn't it be perfect ten-year symmetry if she came again this year?

But, since then, rumours started swirling that she could be pregnant – and she's also announced a global release of a Renaissance tour concert film, coming to cinemas in Australia and the rest of the world.  Perhaps that's meant to keep us satisfied for now, as it becomes harder and harder to believe she'll make it to Australia within the little that's left of 2023. The film seems may be the closest we're going to get to her any time soon. 

When is the Beyoncé film on in Australia?

Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé  will   follow her tour from the beginning to end, as well as the behind-the-scenes work that went into it all. In the US it will screen in cinemas from Friday, December 1, and tickets for those screenings are already on sale. It's currently unclear when the film will be released in Australia, but we'll keep you up to date when we hear.

In classic Bey-style, her Renaissance World Tour  was announced to the entire world through a single glittering Instagram post (that’s all you need, really, when you’re *her*), so also keep an eye on her Instagram profile .   

Sydney, we can't yet get our mitts on tickets to Beyoncé, but we can get them to see:

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Beyoncé: Renaissance World Tour review – a dizzying three-hour spectacular

Friends Arena, Stockholm Queen Bey’s first solo headline tour in seven years is a lavish leap forward for live entertainment, dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex and Black pride

E ven without Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster-melting Eras Tour nipping at her heels, it wouldn’t do for a star as compulsively ambitious as Beyoncé to merely protect her status as the greatest pop show on Earth. Not when her first solo headline tour since 2016 could instead push 21st-century live entertainment another lavish leap forward.

Titled after the Texan’s disco glitter bomb post-pandemic party album of the same name , Renaissance is a monster blockbuster concert experience on a different plane. Fifty-seven stadium dates globally, starting in Stockholm, are projected to gross as much as £1.9bn ($2.4bn) by the time the tour ends in New Orleans late September. Dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex, body positivity and feminine Black pride, the near three-hour spectacular plays out in front, behind and, at times, inside a football-pitch-wide high-definition video screen designed to assault the senses at dizzying scale.

The BeyHive, as Beyoncé’s fans collectively style themselves, are buzzing pre-show as they flood into the venue from around the world for their first chance proper to see their queen live since 2018’s On the Run II co-headliner with Mr B, Jay-Z. Dressed head to toe in official tour merch, including a cap and hoodie both emblazoned with the word “THIQUE”, Mykwain Gainey has been to 20 Beyoncé shows over the past two decades and has spent nearly £2,000 to fly here from New York. “To see her transcend, and become what she has become, especially as a Black woman, is exciting,” he enthuses.

Brazilian Yhes Bezerra wears a spangly cowboy hat like the one sported by Beyoncé in the tour poster, except theirs is homemade; sticking on the thousands of tiny mirror panels took nine hours. They were determined to come to the opening night to avoid social media spoilers about what to expect. “I want everything to be a surprise,” Bezerra smiles.

Beyoncé appears first in a video cut scene, laid out luxuriously across the giant screen semi-naked in dimensions big enough to be visible from space. And yet, once she emerges in the flesh – all sequins, shoulder pads and that megawatt smile, drinking in the crowd’s screams – she begins disarmingly with a slew of her rawest soul songs. By the second, Flaws and All, she already appears to be fighting back tears, whether of release or gratitude or both. It’s an opening that seems designed to strip away artifice, if only to provide some sharp contrast for the heavily technologically augmented spectacle about to follow.

Harking back to early house and techno and the ecstatic utopia of the dancefloor, a segment dedicated to the Renaissance album ensues with Beyoncé done up something akin to the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis. She grinds with a dozen backing dancers to the jittery reggaeton of her boss bitch mission statement I’m That Girl, then dances with some actual robots (a pair of mechanical arms) during Cosy. Were all that not semi-hallucinogenic enough, Alien Superstar interpolates narcissistic anthem I’m Too Sexy by 90s dance-pop twosome Right Said Fred.

With many of the setlist’s whopping 36 songs abridged, the tempo is relentless. Blink and you’ll miss dancers popping out of the stage like champagne corks, or Beyoncé’s powerhouse band getting wheeled into occasional view on a tall stepped riser (shades of Beychella), such as during Chic-style feelgood funk workout Cuff It. “Y’all having a good time, Stockholm?” our host inquires, wiping an imperceptible bead of sweat from her brow. “Me too.”

Black Parade finds Beyoncé cruising the stage atop what looks like a kind of lunar rover. Somewhat comically, it exits up the gusset of a pair of massive splayed legs. Later she sings Plastic Off the Sofa stretched out in a clamshell. Come Crazy in Love, the show finally gets the enormous disco ball it seems to have long craved, dangled from the rafters for only a bit longer than the time it takes for the crew to get it up there and back down.

Bass-quaking, envelope-pushing Black power anthem Formation is a powerful political statement in any setting. Performed in a kind of virtual cathedral, horny southern rap and gospel cocktail Church Girl (sample lyric: “drop it like a thottie, drop it like a thottie”) might just be intended to provoke. But by Beyoncé’s own standards, it’s hard not to read Renaissance as a show much lighter on overt socio-political messaging than it is sheer, unfettered, mildly chaotic indulgence. And who could blame her?

In a final, unsubtle, retro-futuristic fanfare, Bey summons Bianca Jagger’s iconic Studio 54 moment by gliding through the air on a glitter-encrusted white horse while Summer Renaissance – which samples Donna Summer’s I Feel Love – blares. The disco history references may or may not be landing with the mostly young BeyHive, but that’s not really the point. By rewiring dance music past in a sensory overload of truly stunning ambition and stamina, Beyoncé is writing some history of her own.

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Beyoncé kicked off Black History Month with the announcement the world has been waiting months for: Her Renaissance World Tour is happening, this year. Bey unveiled the news with a simple Instagram post: “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023.” She did not immediately provide more information, but more is obviously coming.

So, what is known so far about her tour? What can the world expect? Here, we've gathered everything released so far.

When is the Renaissance World Tour happening?

• May 10: Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena
• May 14: Brussels, Belgium @ King Baudouin Stadium
• May 17: Cardiff, Wales, U.K. @ Cardiff Principality Stadium
• May 20: Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. @ BT Murrayfield Stadium
• May 23: Sunderland, U.K. @ Stadium of Light
• May 26: Paris, France @ Stade de France
• May 29: London, U.K. @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• May 30: London, U.K. @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• June 8: Barcelona, Spain @ Olympic Stadium
• June 11: Marseille, France @ Orange Vélodrome
• June 15: Cologne, Germany @ Rhein Energie Stadion
• June 17: Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Johan Cruijff Arena
• June 21: Hamburg, Germany @ Volksparkstadion
• June 24: Frankfurt, Germany @ Deutsche Bank Park
• June 27: Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy
• July 8: Toronto, Canada @ 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
• August 1: Boston, MA @ Gillette Stadium
• August 3: Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium
• August 5: Washington, DC @ FedEx Field
• August 9: Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium
• August 11: Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium
• August 16: Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium
• August 18: Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium
• August 21: St. Louis, MO @ Dome at America's Center
• August 24: Phoenix, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
• August 26: Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
• August 30, San Francisco, CA @ Levi’s Stadium
• September 2: Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
• September 11: Vancouver, BC @ BC Place
• September 13: Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
• September 18: Kansas City, MO @ Arrowhead Stadium
• September 21: Dallas, TX @ AT&T Stadium
• September 23: Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
• September 27: New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome

Where can you get tickets?

Tickets for the North American leg of the tour will be available through Ticketmaster's Verified Fan program. Tickets will go on sale Monday, Feb 6, with an exclusive presale to BeyHive members, according to a Live Nation press release.

Verified Fan registration is now open. Once you register, you'll be placed in a lottery system that determines which fans get invited to purchase tickets. Registration alone doesn't guarantee tickets. If you're selected, you'll get an access code the day before tickets go on sale. Everyone else will be placed on a waitlist. According to Live Nation, this process is intended to help Ticketmaster weed out the resellers and verify your account so that actual fans get priority to buy tickets.

Citi cardmembers will have a special Citi Presale after the Verified Fan process. Get more details here . Verizon will also offer an exclusive presale through their customer loyalty program Verizon Up .

Will Beyoncé be using Ticketmaster like Taylor Swift to sell tickets?

Yes, but given what happened with Taylor Swift's Eras tour (and the fact it led to Congressional hearings about Ticketmaster ’s practices), it seems very likely both Beyoncé and Ticketmaster would want to avoid repeating that mess. That most likely explains the usage of the Verified Fan system.

Where will Beyoncé be playing?

The Renaissance World Tour will hit 40 cities in North America and across Europe. Stops include Paris, London, Amsterdam, Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Houston, and many more.

What has Beyoncé said about the Renaissance World Tour?

She just announced it was happening with a post on February 1. Her website didn't immediately contain any more details. But during the Wearable Art Gala in October 2022, she appeared to confirm it would start this summer, as a backstage tour with her mother Tina Lawson was up for auction at the event.

Will Beyoncé be performing at the Grammys (on February 5) and sharing more tour details there?

Not clear yet, but she is the most nominated artist at the ceremony . On January 21, Variety reported that “ talks with show producers are ongoing for a possible onstage appearance ” by Beyoncé.

What can we expect from the tour on stage?

Beyoncé hasn't shared that yet either, but given the artistry she put into her recent Dubai show , it's fair to say we can expect no less than excellence, elaborate costumes, and an incredible experience.

This post will be updated the moment more detail is released.

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Beyonce has announced a world tour for her latest album Renaissance.

The 41-year-old US megastar took to Instagram with a racy photo of herself wearing jewel-encrusted lingerie while straddling a fake horse to make the news.

The upcoming tour kicks off in Europe in May this year, before moving onto North America from July.

The Cuff It singer, who released her seventh studio album in July last year to much fanfare, is yet to announce Australian dates, though they are reportedly imminent.

The mother-of-three last toured Australia in 2013 with her Mrs. Carter Show tour.

Beyonce’s post clocked up a mammoth 6.3 million likes after just hours, with some of the world’s top brand accounts flooding the comments section.

Instagram’s official handle wrote, “Something has shifted in the cosmos”, while Target commented, “using 3 laptops and 5 phones to get these tickets.”

YouTube added, “alright everyone thoughts and prayers we get tickets.”

Renaissance came after 2016’s headline-making Lemonade debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and became her seventh consecutive album to achieve the feat.

Renaissance was named the best album of the year in 2022 by the likes of Los Angeles Times, The New York Times , and Rolling Stone.

It has also been nominated for nine Grammys at the 65th annual ceremony this coming Monday, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

Beyonce earlier revealed Renaissance was the first instalment as part of a trilogy of albums, which she worked on over three years during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a note to fans on her official website in July, Beyonce wrote: “Creating this album [ Renaissance ] allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.

“It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment, a place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.”

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Rumours are swirling that the iconic singer could bring her Renaissance tour to our shores later this year. By Dani Maher

AFTER TOURING THE northern hemisphere in 2023 with her Renaissance World Tour and more recently, dropping Renaissance Act II , AKA Cowboy Carter , could Beyoncé finally be touring Australia again?

The Houston-born singer last visited Australia over 10 years ago, leaving fans itching to see her perform again on our shores — and though she didn’t bring the 2023 Renaissance World Tour Down Under , there’s now renewed hopes that 2024 could be the year she makes what’s sure to be a triumphant return.

Read on for everything we know so far about whether or not Beyoncé is coming to Australia in 2024.

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Beyoncé hasn’t made any announcements or hints as to any tour dates in 2024, but rumours have begun to swirl that she may be in the process of booking dates at certain local stadiums.

Speculation of a local Renaissance tour began back in 2023, when Beyoncé announced the World Tour with dates across North America, Canada, Europe and the UK. However, the singer never announced additional Asia-Pacific dates, wrapping up the tour as planned in Kansas City on October 1, 2023.

But now, a host on a Melbourne radio station reportedly received a tip from a person who “works in the major events space” that has renewed hopes of a new tour following the release of Cowboy Carter in March 2024.

“I work in the major events space and the word on the street is that Beyoncé is coming to town later this year,” the message read. “We all know the concerts at the MCG work… Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift. It’s been the biggest shows of their careers,” the announcer continued.

It’s true that Swift performed her largest-ever concerts in Melbourne’s MCG earlier this year , with each of the three consecutive dates attended by a record 96,000 people — or 288,000 in total. If Beyoncé were to tour Australia and make a stop in Melbourne, it’s almost certain she’d opt for that history-making venue. Meanwhile, if she were to stop in Sydney, it’s likely that Accor Stadium would play host, as it did for Swift.

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If Beyoncé does announce Australian tour dates for 2024, it’s unclear just yet whether she’ll be bringing the Renaissance World Tour as it was performed in 2023 — or if she’ll be switching things up with a ‘Renaissance Act II’ or even a ‘Cowboy Carter’ World Tour. Only time will tell, it seems.

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Stop everything – Beyoncé has announced her 2023 Renaissance world tour, and fans around the globe are buzzing. But Australian fans are a little confused. Is she coming or not? Ticketek seems to be certain of an imminent tour and have even started a waitlist, but others aren’t so sure .

In classic Beyoncé style, the announcement came without warning via a cryptic Instagram post (remember back in 2013 when she just dropped her self-titled album without a word? Queen) in which she sits atop a mirrored horse in all her disco-cowgirl glory.

The Lemonade megastar will kick off the global extravaganza in Europe this May, before heading to North America from July. According to her website, tickets will be made available to verified fans, with an exclusive pre-sale for the North American stretch going straight to the Beyhive.

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If she does come to Australia it would be the first time Beyoncé has toured in Australia since her Mrs Carter Tour in 2013. While dates for the Australian leg of Queen Bey’s tour have not yet been announced, fans can join that waitlist for news and tickets on the Ticketek website.

Beyoncé fans can sign up for news and the ticket waitlist here .

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WATCH: Jordan Chiles stuns in Beyonce's Renaissance tour-inspired leotard at U.S. Gymnastics Championships 2024

A merican artistic gymnast Jordan Chiles flaunted her dazzling ensemble at the ongoing U.S. Gymnastics Championships, inspired by American pop icon Beyonce's Renaissance world tour.

Chiles is one of America's most promising gymnasts, as she has achieved quite a few accolades in her career. The 23-year-old is the winner of an Olympic silver medal in the team event; she also has a world championship title in the same discipline and two world championship silvers in floor exercise and vault apparatus. Furthermore, she clinched the Winter Cup gold in all-around, vault, floor exercise, and a silver in balance beam.

During day 1 of the U.S. Gymnastics Championships, aka Xfinity Championships, Chiles in Fort Worth, Texas, placed in seventh place with an all-around score of 55.100.

However, it was her leotard that caught the attention of the fans. USA Gymnastics shared a video on their Instagram on Saturday where the Olympian could be seen performing her routines in glittering attire while Energy by Beyonce played in the background.

They captioned the post as:

"Jordan Chiles? Oh, you mean THAT GIRL! Yeah, we know her!"

Chiles' close friend and one of the most decorated gymnasts of all time, Simone Biles, is nearing her ninth all-around national title with an all-around score of 60.45, ahead of Skye Blakely, who is in second place with 57.05.

Jordan Chiles confident ahead of Paris Olympics 2024 appearance

Jordan Chiles has always been a vital member of the US team for years, as she was the one who assisted her team at the 2022 World Championships, where the American squad stood atop the podium after winning the gold. The Tualatin-born athlete was also a crucial contributor when the team secured silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Chiles is now gearing up to participate in her second Olympics, scheduled for Paris this year in July. Talking about her upcoming aspirations, she said (via Olympics.com):

"If you guys want to know what my motto is this year, my motto is ' I'm that girl.' I feel like I've proved enough to this world that I feel like I don't have to express a lot. I don't have to change anything and I can just be authentic to who I want to be. If you don't like, you don't like it. If you don't want to ride with, you don't have to ride with me."

Talking about training for the Paris Olympics after wrapping up her NCAA season, Jordan Chiles stated:

"As of right now, after NCAAs (in April) and after the quarter which is over in June, I'll be going back to Texas. I'll be training in Texas all of 2024 for the Olympics. I'll just be training. "

Kelly Rowland says she's 'very proud' of Blue Ivy amid performance's for Beyoncé's tour

Beyoncé and Jay-Z 's oldest daughter Blue Ivy already has fans, including Kelly Rowland .

The 11-year-old Grammy winner has earned her own praise for her dance breaks during her mom's Renaissance World Tour.

Rowland, who also started performing at a young age with Beyoncé in Destiny's Child, told E! News she's "very proud" of Blue Ivy.

"She works very freaking hard, period," the "Motivation" singer added. "But how could she not, you know? She sees her mother in action and she sees her father in action and how they apply everything, hard work to everything that they do."

Blue Ivy made her debut at Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour in May, appearing for fierce choreography to the song "My Power" from the 2019 album "The Lion King: The Gift." The mother-daughter duo starts off dancing together before Blue Ivy is given center stage along with backup dancers as her mother sings from an elevated platform. To conclude the dance break, Blue Ivy and Beyoncé end with a fist bump.

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Since her May appearance, the "Brown Skin Girl" singer has joined her mom for several shows across the globe including stops in Paris, Las Vegas, New York and Atlanta.

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Rowland shared with E! that her oldest son Titan, whom she shares with husband Tim Weatherspoon, has also shown interest in music and one specific singer.

"He has the biggest crush on  Halle Bailey ," she shared. "He's watched ' The Little Mermaid ' way too many times and, as much as I love Halle, she's in my house every day."

Rowland added: "Every time she comes on screen his whole face just lights up. I'm like, 'Wait a second, are you looking at her like the way you look at me?' I'm like, 'I'm your No. 1 girl.' But I mean, she is a beauty. I think that's his first crush."

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AMC CEO says 'Renaissance' concert movie leak almost cost him Beyoncé film deal

Beyoncé nearly pulled the release of her concert film last year.

News of the project leaked to the public early, partly because of AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron.

Aron thought giving competitor theater chains a heads-up would be a good idea. It backfired.

Beyoncé's concert film was released in movie theaters last December and together with Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour" movie , made up "literally all" of AMC's revenue growth in Q4.

But according to the head of AMC Theaters, the film almost didn't make it to the big screen.

Adam Aron , CEO of the American theater chain, said to be the largest in the world , recently spoke to Variety and admitted that the company's distribution deal with the musician nearly fell through after news of the project leaked early — partly because of him.

Aron said that after AMC partnered with Swift on the surprise release of "The Eras Tour" concert movie in October 2023, he learned that competitor theater owners felt slighted by the deal.

While many theaters, not just AMC-owned ones, could show the movie, only AMC, as its distributor, knew about the film's existence in advance so that it could put tickets on sale first.

"We couldn't blow Taylor's secret," Aron said. "And those theater chains who groused to you? They grossed $100 million in ticket sales. It's not like they sold diddly."

"The Eras Tour" movie ended up having the biggest-ever opening weekend for a concert filming, raking in $92.8 million domestically. It continued to be a box office smash once it opened worldwide and, to date, has grossed $261 million globally.

When it came to Beyoncé's "Renaissance" just two months later, in December 2023, Aron said he attempted to make amends by giving AMC's competitors a heads-up so that they could also make preparations ahead of the official announcement of the movie.

However, the confidential news soon made it to the ears of the public, causing Beyoncé to have second thoughts about releasing the movie.

The Grammy award-winning artist wanted it to surprise her fans like Swift's concert movie had.

"At least half a dozen movie circuits leaked the news," Aron said.

"Beyoncé was seriously thinking about not doing the movie at all because the secret was blown. So, they didn't keep their word."

Representatives for AMC and Beyoncé did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular working hours.

"Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," which combined concert footage of the singer's latest worldwide tour with behind-the-scenes glimpses of the singer's process, took home nearly $44 million at the global box office, according to Box Office Mojo .

According to Aron, AMC will continue to capitalize on the success of the two concert movies and distribute "two to three" concert films a year.

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