Brent Faiyaz Tour 2026

Inside Brent Faiyaz

Brent Faiyaz is one of the defining independent R&B artists of the streaming era — an American singer and songwriter from Columbia, Maryland who built a catalogue rooted in late-night, atmospheric, after-hours R&B without ever signing to a major label, running his career through his own Lost Kids imprint. Born Christopher Brent Wood, he grew up in the Columbia and broader Howard County corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., a planned community on the I-95 spine that has produced a quietly significant share of recent R&B and alternative soul. His public catalogue starts with the 2017 debut album Sonder Son — recorded largely in the Dominican Republic and released independently through Lost Kids — followed by the 2020 EP F*ck The World and the 2022 full-length Wasteland, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and confirmed his arrival as a headline-tier independent R&B artist. Wasteland is the commercial anchor of the catalogue, carrying singles and album cuts including Wasting Time featuring Drake (which originally appeared on Drake's Honestly, Nevermind cycle), All Mine, Gravity featuring Tyler, The Creator and DJ Dahi, Loose Change, Price of Fame, and the closing run of Wake Up Call material. The 2023 cycle produced WASTELAND (Deluxe) and the Larger Than Life mixtape collaboration with A$AP Rocky, N.O.R.E., and the broader catalogue extensions; the Trust single with Tommy Richman in 2024 became one of the biggest viral R&B records of the year on TikTok and streaming, peaking high on the Billboard Hot 100 and pushing the live demand into arena range. He has also surfaced as a featured vocalist on Drake's Wasting Time, Tyler, The Creator's catalogue collaborations, GoldLink's Crew on his Sonder collective era, and the broader Sonder trio project with producers Dpat and Atu. This page is the central hub for Brent Faiyaz tour dates, ticket guidance, setlist tracking, and the cities he plays most across North America, Europe, and beyond.

About Brent Faiyaz

Christopher Brent Wood was born September 19, 1995 in Columbia, Maryland — the planned mixed-use community founded by James Rouse in 1967 in Howard County, midway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. He grew up between Columbia and the broader Howard County corridor and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina during high school before returning to the East Coast to pursue music full-time in his late teens. He adopted the Brent Faiyaz stage name — a phonetic version of fire — early in the SoundCloud era and released a series of independent singles through 2014 and 2015 that built a small but devoted online following on the late-night, slow-tempo, sample-heavy alternative R&B end of the streaming catalogue. The breakout moment was the 2016 feature on GoldLink's Crew alongside Shy Glizzy — a track that became GoldLink's first major commercial single, reaching the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rap/Sung Performance, and turning Brent Faiyaz into a recognizable name on R&B and hip-hop radio without a record deal behind him. He formed the Sonder collective with producers Dpat and Atu in 2016 and released the Into EP in 2017 — five tracks of dim, mid-tempo R&B that established the sonic template the rest of his catalogue has built on. The debut solo album Sonder Son arrived in October 2017, recorded largely on a trip to the Dominican Republic and released independently through his own Lost Kids imprint with no major-label distribution — a notable independent move at a moment when most artists at his streaming volume were signing major deals. The 2020 EP F*ck The World — released April 3, 2020 in the early weeks of the pandemic — became a streaming sleeper hit anchored by Rehab (Winter in Paris), Clouded, and Been Away, and pushed his monthly Spotify listenership past 10 million for the first time. Wasteland landed July 8, 2022 as the first full-length follow-up to Sonder Son and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 behind only the week's top release, the highest-charting independent R&B album of the year. The album ran 19 tracks across 53 minutes and featured Drake on Wasting Time (originally a Drake solo on Honestly, Nevermind that was re-mixed and re-released as a Brent Faiyaz feature), Tyler, The Creator on Gravity, Alicia Keys on Loose Change, and contributions from The Neptunes, DJ Dahi, and Jordan Ware on production. Single performance ran through All Mine, Gravity, Wasting Time, and Price of Fame. The 2023 deluxe extension carried additional tracks and the Larger Than Life mixtape collaboration arrived later that year as a tour-cycle drop. The Trust single with Tommy Richman in mid-2024 was the catalogue's biggest viral moment to date — the song's slow-burn TikTok cycle through summer and fall 2024 produced a Hot 100 climb and pushed the live demand into arena scale for the first time. He has performed at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Wireless Festival in London, Rolling Loud Miami and California, the Made in America festival, and the OVO Fest in Toronto across multiple cycles, and has co-headlined runs with broader R&B and hip-hop acts on Live Nation routings. Lost Kids — the label, brand, and creative collective — continues to operate independently with Brent Faiyaz as the anchor artist alongside a small roster of affiliated producers and writers. His catalogue is now widely cited as the most commercially significant independent R&B run of the streaming era, alongside H.E.R. and Daniel Caesar in the broader Black alternative R&B ecosystem.

Brent Faiyaz tour dates and live show

The current Brent Faiyaz touring framework runs on a Lost Kids and Live Nation routing that has scaled from mid-size theaters and ballrooms on the 2018 Sonder Son cycle and 2020 F*ck The World cycle into 5,000–10,000 capacity venues on the Wasteland cycle, with select arena dates and stadium festival headlines on the post-Wasteland and Trust-era touring extensions. The Brent Faiyaz live show is built around a single uninterrupted headline set of roughly 75 to 95 minutes depending on the night, with a dedicated touring band — drums, bass, keys, and a second vocalist on the harmony stack — backing the catalogue rather than a backing-track-only configuration that defines most R&B touring at this scale. The production leans into the catalogue's late-night, after-hours visual identity: dim red and amber wash lighting, smoke-heavy stage haze that obscures sightlines into a deliberately atmospheric haze for the slower Wasteland material, occasional LED video walls for the arena dates carrying abstract Sonder Son and F*ck The World era imagery rather than literal lyric visuals, and a stripped acoustic mid-set segment that runs through the Sonder collective era catalogue and Sonder Son album cuts. The set list braids the catalogue from the 2016 GoldLink Crew feature through the Sonder Into EP, the full Sonder Son run, the F*ck The World cuts, the Wasteland singles and album material, and the Trust single with Tommy Richman as the closing anchor on the post-2024 routing. Doors typically open seventy-five to ninety minutes before the show; the Brent Faiyaz headline set usually starts close to schedule once any support set clears. If a Brent Faiyaz tour date is confirmed in your region, the schedule strip above pulls every confirmed night from the live feed.

Brent Faiyaz tickets

Brent Faiyaz tickets on the theater and ballroom legs of the Wasteland and post-Wasteland routings typically start in the $50–$85 range for general admission floor or upper-tier reserved seating on the day of on-sale across most North American markets, climbing to $120–$220 for the closest reserved and pit tiers in the largest demand markets — Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Toronto, London. Arena-tier nights on the post-Trust cycle scale higher: $70–$120 upper-deck, $150–$300 lower-bowl, $300–$600 floor and pit packages. The Brent Faiyaz market trades elevated on resale through StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats, and Ticketmaster's Verified Resale marketplace once the on-sale window closes — Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta nights routinely clear the lower-tier in single-digit minutes given the independent-label scarcity premium that runs on every Brent Faiyaz date. Ticketmaster pre-sales are the primary path to face-value floor and lower-tier access on the larger markets: subscribe to the Lost Kids newsletter at the artist site for the 24–72 hour Lost Kids pre-sale window before the public on-sale, watch the Live Nation pre-sale on the morning before the public window, and consider the venue or local promoter pre-sale on the smaller theater dates. Premium VIP packages on the recent Brent Faiyaz routings have bundled meet-and-greet access, signed merchandise, early-entry to the floor, and a soundcheck experience on a small number of dates per leg — these typically run $300–$600 above face value and sell out within hours of the pre-sale opening. Avoid social-media DMs and any seller demanding Venmo, Zelle, or wire payment outside a verified platform — the secondary market on Brent Faiyaz dates carries an elevated scam rate given the small-venue floor scarcity.

Brent Faiyaz setlist

A Brent Faiyaz setlist on the Wasteland and post-Trust routings runs roughly 18 to 22 songs across the headline block, braiding the full catalogue from the 2016 Sonder collective era through the Wasteland singles and the post-2024 Trust collaboration. The opening third typically pulls from the Wasteland mid-tempo material — Loose Change with the Alicia Keys interlude carried by the touring keyboardist, Wasting Time with the Drake verse handled vocally by Brent or dropped instrumental, All Mine, and Price of Fame — with the dim red wash lighting setting the after-hours atmospheric tone the catalogue is built around. The middle stretch leans into the F*ck The World cuts: Rehab (Winter in Paris), Clouded, Been Away, and Bluffin all land in this portion of the set, with the touring band stretching select arrangements into extended jam-band tags. The stripped acoustic segment runs the Sonder Son catalogue: Talk 2 U, Make Luv, First World Problemz/Nobody Carez, and Gang Over Luv all rotate through the acoustic block depending on the night, with the second vocalist on harmony duty filling the recorded background stack. The closing run pulls the catalogue's biggest commercial peaks: Crew (the GoldLink feature handled with the Shy Glizzy verse dropped or sampled), Trust with the Tommy Richman feature on the post-2024 routing (Tommy occasionally appearing on Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta dates when the scheduling aligns), Gravity with the Tyler, The Creator verse handled instrumentally or vocally depending on the night, and the closing All Mine or Wasting Time as the encore anchor. For exact night-by-night setlists, setlist.fm tracks every Brent Faiyaz tour date with crowd-submitted song lists usually posted within hours of the encore.

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