Asake Tour 2026

Inside Asake

Asake is the stage name of Ahmed Ololade, the Nigerian singer, songwriter, and dancer who, across a roughly three-year run between 2022 and 2024, did more to reshape the sound of mainstream Afrobeats than any other new artist of the streaming era. Born and raised in Lagos, signed to Olamide's YBNL Nation in early 2022, and broken on the strength of the original Sungba and its Olamide-assisted remix, Asake fused log-drum-driven South African amapiano with Yoruba street pop, Lagos fuji vocal cadence, and chant-heavy choral hooks into a sound that radio, TikTok, club rotation, and the international Afrobeats festival circuit all picked up at once. The debut album Mr. Money With The Vibe arrived in September 2022 stacked with Sungba, Peace Be Unto You, Joha, Terminator, and Organise. Work of Art followed in June 2023 and pushed the sound further into orchestral choral arrangements with Lonely at the Top, Yoga, Amapiano with Olamide, 2:30, and Mogbe carrying the cycle. Lungu Boy in August 2024 brought in Travis Scott, Stormzy, Wizkid, and Central Cee features and broadened the catalogue into a more globally legible Afro-fusion register without abandoning the foundational amapiano-Yoruba braid. Arena headline runs in London, Toronto, New York, and continental Europe followed across 2023 and 2024, and Asake moved from emerging name to one of the four or five Afrobeats acts capable of selling out a 15,000-seat room outside Nigeria. This page is the central hub for tour dates, ticket guidance, setlist patterns, and the cities he plays most.

About Asake

Ahmed Ololade was born in Lagos, Nigeria and grew up between the mainland Lagos neighbourhoods that have produced most of the city's defining street-pop voices. He studied theatre arts at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife in Osun State, where he leaned into dance as much as into singing — choreography, movement, and stage presence were part of his training before the music caught. He recorded as Asake from the late 2010s, posting freestyles and short videos to Instagram and YouTube through 2018, 2019, and 2020 without a label deal, building a small but loyal Lagos following on the strength of his Yoruba-language wordplay and the dance clips that travelled faster than the audio. The first viral moment came with Mr. Money, a 2020 release that started circulating on Instagram and pulled the attention of Olamide, the YBNL Nation founder who has functioned as Nigerian street-pop's most consistent talent scout for more than a decade. Olamide signed Asake to YBNL in early 2022 and re-released the catalogue under the label. Sungba, the first single under the new YBNL banner, arrived in January 2022; the Olamide-featured remix dropped weeks later and detonated. The pattern — log-drum amapiano bedded under Yoruba choral hooks, a back-of-the-throat fuji-inflected delivery, and gang-vocal chant choruses recorded with full choirs rather than stacked solo overdubs — became the Asake template across the rest of 2022. The Mr. Money With The Vibe EP and then the full-length album of the same name landed in September 2022 and carried Peace Be Unto You (PBUY), Joha, Terminator, Organise, and Dull alongside Sungba into the year-end Nigerian charts. Work of Art followed in June 2023 with Lonely at the Top, Yoga, Amapiano with Olamide, 2:30, Basquiat, Awodi, Mogbe, and Olorun anchoring the cycle and pushing the orchestral choral-arrangement direction further. Lungu Boy in August 2024 added international collaborators — Travis Scott on Active, Stormzy on Suru, Wizkid on MMS, Central Cee on Wave — and broadened the catalogue's reach without diluting the foundational sound. The headline touring picked up at the same pace: Mr. Money With The Vibe Tour through European arenas in late 2022 and early 2023, a North American leg through 2023, and increasingly larger rooms across 2024 and into the Lungu Boy cycle. Asake remains signed to YBNL Nation with international distribution through Empire.

Asake tour dates and live show

When Asake tours, the rooms scale from large theatres into full arenas across the major international Afrobeats markets — the O2 Arena in London, OVO Arena Wembley, the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, the 3Arena in Dublin, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center in New York, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and the Eko Convention Centre and Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos when the routing brings him home. The live show is built around a tight band — drum kit, percussion line with multiple talking-drum players, log-drum trigger pads for the amapiano sections, full horn section on the Work of Art and Lungu Boy cycles, and a six-to-twelve-voice backing choir that handles the gang-vocal hooks that anchor most of the catalogue. Asake himself dances through most of the set, with a choreographed troupe carrying the higher-energy numbers and the singer breaking into solo footwork during the amapiano breakdowns. Production leans on aggressive lighting design, pyrotechnics on the biggest crescendos, and visual references to Yoruba iconography, Lagos street culture, and the Lungu Boy album artwork on the LED ribbon. A typical Asake show runs roughly 80 to 110 minutes; arena dates sit on the longer end of that range and festival headline slots run shorter. There is usually no traditional opening act on the headline arena dates — the show is the evening and Asake takes the stage shortly after doors close. Hedge any 2026 specific dates against the live schedule strip at the top of this page; that feed is the source of truth for confirmed Asake shows currently on sale.

Asake tickets

Asake tickets for arena dates in the UK, Ireland, continental Europe, and North America typically open in the £40 to £80 range for upper-tier seats at face value on the day of on-sale and climb into the £100 to £200 band for lower-bowl and floor general admission once dynamic pricing kicks in on the largest London, Manchester, and New York rooms. Front-pit and standing-floor tickets at the O2 Arena, OVO Arena Wembley, and Madison Square Garden have cleared £150 to £300 at face value on peak nights, and resale on StubHub, viagogo, SeatGeek, and Vivid Seats can sit higher for Friday and Saturday dates. Lagos shows at the Eko Convention Centre and Tafawa Balewa Square run a separate pricing structure pegged to the Nigerian market, with standard tickets typically in the ₦15,000 to ₦40,000 range and VIP and Table packages climbing into the hundreds of thousands of naira depending on the specific event and promoter. Official on-sales run through Ticketmaster for North America, the UK, and most of continental Europe; AXS handles selected venues, See Tickets covers a number of UK regional dates, and Nigerian on-sales are split between TIX.AFRICA, Eventbrite, and direct promoter channels depending on the show. Pre-sales for Asake dates routinely include a Ticketmaster general pre-sale 24 to 48 hours ahead of the public window plus venue-specific pre-sales for O2 Priority, AmEx, and similar credit-card programmes. Register for any available pre-sale ahead of an announced market — pre-sale codes are typically the only realistic path to face-value lower-bowl seats on the biggest London and New York dates. Set an alert on this page rather than checking once and walking away; Asake on-sales for the highest-demand rooms clear the best face-value seats inside the first ten minutes.

Asake setlist

An Asake setlist on the Lungu Boy and Work of Art touring cycles runs roughly 20 to 26 songs across 80 to 110 minutes and braids three album eras into a single show arc. The Lungu Boy cuts — Active with the recorded Travis Scott verse triggered from playback, Wave with the recorded Central Cee verse, Suru, MMS, Worldwide, Whine, and the Lungu Boy title track — anchor the opening third with full-band amapiano arrangements and the choir prominent in the mix. The Work of Art block lands in the middle and carries the heaviest singalong cuts: Lonely at the Top opens the choir-led ballad section with the room taking the entire chorus unprompted, Yoga and 2:30 push the amapiano breakdown sections, Amapiano with the recorded Olamide verse triggered from playback, Basquiat and Mogbe handle the mid-tempo pivot, and Awodi or Olorun close the block with a sustained gang-vocal chorus. The Mr. Money With The Vibe back half is the deepest singalong stretch and the part of the show that breaks the room: Peace Be Unto You (PBUY), Joha, Terminator, Organise, and Dull arrive in quick succession with minimal between-song banter, and Sungba closes the main set with the choir, the percussion line, and Asake himself stepping back to let the audience own entire choruses. The encore typically pulls one Lungu Boy cut, a single repeated Sungba refrain, or — on Lagos and London hometown nights — a brief Olamide cameo on Amapiano or the Sungba remix verse if the timing aligns. Night-to-night variation is moderate on the international arena dates and slightly higher on Lagos shows where guest features and audibles run more freely. For exact night-by-night setlists, setlist.fm tracks every confirmed Asake date with crowd-submitted song-by-song lists usually posted within hours of the encore — that remains the most reliable source for what was actually performed at a specific show.

Asake meet-and-greet packages

Asake meet-and-greet packages are not consistently offered at the public-sale level on most international tour dates. The Mr. Money With The Vibe, Work of Art, and Lungu Boy cycles have generally rolled out VIP ticket tiers that bundle premium seating with a pre-show lounge, early venue entry, an exclusive merchandise item, and occasionally a soundcheck observation slot rather than a formal face-to-face meet-and-greet with Asake himself. When meet-and-greet experiences have appeared, they have typically been distributed through promoter-led contests, YBNL Nation channels, radio-station giveaways, and brand-partner activations rather than as a publicly purchasable upgrade tier. Anyone offering a guaranteed in-person Asake meet-and-greet outside of an official YBNL Nation, Empire, or named promoter channel should be treated with extreme skepticism — that segment of the secondary market is heavily scammed, and the international touring operation does not currently sell guaranteed meet-and-greet access through Ticketmaster, AXS, or any of the standard primary platforms on every date. If face-time with Asake is the goal, premium floor or front-pit seats are the realistic path. Lagos hometown shows occasionally include backstage and VIP table packages distributed through the local promoter; those packages are typically the closest legitimate access tier on the calendar and clear quickly when announced.

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