Chris Young Tour 2026

Inside Chris Young

Chris Young is the Murfreesboro-bred, baritone-voiced country traditionalist who turned a 2006 Nashville Star television win into a two-decade run of multi-week No. 1 country radio singles, platinum albums on Sony Music Nashville, and a touring catalogue that has graduated from honky-tonk theaters into 10,000-to-15,000-capacity arenas across North America. He is, by the standards of mainstream country in the streaming era, an unusually old-school proposition — a deep, resonant Randy Travis-style country baritone wrapped around songs that owe more to George Strait and Keith Whitley than to whatever pop or hip-hop crossover the format happens to be chasing in any given quarter — and that throwback instinct has been the engine of his commercial run rather than a brake on it.

From the first single "Drinkin' Me Lonely" off his 2006 self-titled debut through the chart-topping middle period of "Gettin' You Home", "The Man I Want to Be", "Voices", "Tomorrow", "I Can Take It from There", "Aw Naw" and "Lonely Eyes", into the late-2010s and early-2020s run of "Losing Sleep", "Hangin' On", "Raised on Country" and the genre-crossing Kane Brown duet "Famous Friends", the catalogue is a steady accumulation of country radio hits that have soundtracked tailgates, line-dance floors and last-call jukeboxes from Bakersfield to Bangor. The 2024 album Young Love & Saturday Nights — his ninth studio record and a deliberate hard pivot back toward neotraditional country after a stretch of crossover-friendly material — reframed the live show around a more guitar-and-fiddle, less-synth arrangement, and the current touring chapter pushes that band-first instinct into arena rooms and amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada.

This page is the landing spot for current Chris Young tour dates, ticket information, setlists and city-specific show information, kept evergreen year-round so it tracks every routing as new dates are announced.

About Chris Young

Christopher Alan Young was born June 12, 1985 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a half-hour southeast of Nashville along Interstate 24, and grew up in a household where his grandfather was a country and gospel singer who played the local circuit. He spent his middle-school and high-school years performing at songwriter nights and small Tennessee venues, briefly attended Middle Tennessee State University in his hometown, and at twenty signed up for the fourth season of the USA Network reality singing competition Nashville Star, then country music's Music Row-sanctioned answer to American Idol.

He won the season in May 2006, edged out a strong field that included future Sugarland member Kristen Kelly and several other Music Row regulars, and walked away with a recording contract with RCA Records Nashville, the country imprint that has been his home ever since through Sony Music Nashville's ownership cycle.

The self-titled debut Chris Young arrived in October 2006 to modest commercial returns — the lead single "Drinkin' Me Lonely" cracked the country top forty but the album sold below the label's expectations. RCA stuck with him, and the 2009 follow-up The Man I Want to Be turned the run around: the title track and "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)" both went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Voices" followed them up the chart in 2010, and the album was certified platinum by the RIAA.

Neon arrived in 2011 with "Tomorrow" and "You" both reaching No. 1 on country radio, and the trajectory from there was a steady run of platinum and multi-platinum singles through the 2010s: A.M. in 2013 with "Aw Naw" and "Who I Am with You", I'm Comin' Over in 2015 with the title-track No. 1 and a co-write with Vince Gill on "Sober Saturday Night", Losing Sleep in 2017 with three more country No. 1s including the title track, and the 2021 record Famous Friends whose title track — a duet with Kane Brown referencing their hometown Tennessee roots — spent multiple weeks at the top of the country charts and crossed into the mainstream all-genre top forty.

The 2024 release Young Love & Saturday Nights was framed in interviews as a deliberate course correction — Young told Country Now and Billboard that he wanted to make a record that sounded like the George Strait and Randy Travis albums he grew up on rather than chasing the crossover-pop and country-rap currents that had been moving through the format in the early 2020s. The album leans heavily on fiddle, steel guitar and traditional country arrangements, and the live show has followed suit.

Across the catalogue, Young has accumulated north of a dozen No. 1 country radio singles, more than half a dozen platinum or multi-platinum certifications, multiple Grammy nominations, CMA and ACM Award nominations across male vocalist, single and event categories, and a touring footprint that has run continuously since his Nashville Star win.

Chris Young tour dates

The current Chris Young touring chapter follows the Young Love & Saturday Nights album cycle and the catalogue runs on a typical headline routing — a mix of mid-size arenas like Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Rupp Arena in Lexington and Allstate Arena in Chicago for marquee dates, summer amphitheater swings through buildings like Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Walmart AMP in Rogers, and Ruoff Music Center in Indianapolis, plus a steady stream of state fair grandstands, casino concert halls and university-town arenas through the Midwest, Southeast and Texas. Sets run a tight 90 to 105 minutes with the band leaning into the traditional-country arrangements that frame the new record — fiddle, steel guitar, telecaster and Young's baritone front and center — and the catalogue runs deep enough that the night moves through the radio hits without ever feeling like a pure singles show.

Support acts rotate by leg and tend to draw from the country radio bench of newer Sony Nashville and Big Machine artists; recent tours have featured names like Dylan Scott, Mitchell Tenpenny, Eric Paslay, Cassadee Pope and Lainey Wilson in opening slots before her own arena breakthrough. Door times typically run 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. for arenas and 5:30 p.m. for amphitheaters, with the opener on around 7:30 and Young at 9:00.

Production is modest by current arena standards — a video wall, a basic lighting rig, no pyrotechnics on most dates — which keeps the focus on the band and the songs rather than the staging. The grid above pulls the live schedule directly from Ticketmaster and updates as new dates are confirmed.

Chris Young tickets

Chris Young tickets are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet, with secondary inventory on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster's own verified resale platform linked from each event card on this page. Arena pricing for a Chris Young headline date typically opens with upper-bowl seats in the $40–$75 range, lower-bowl reserved at $75–$150, and floor or front-of-stage premium pricing at $175–$350 depending on the market.

Amphitheater dates run lawn tickets at $30–$55, reserved pavilion in the $60–$120 range, and premium pavilion or pit climbing into the $150–$275 zone on the high-demand summer dates. State fair grandstand pricing tends to be the value tier of the routing — reserved grandstand seats are often $35–$70 with general-admission track or infield access at the lower end of that band.

Fan club presales through the official Chris Young site usually open 48 to 72 hours before the Friday public on-sale and remain the most reliable path to good seats on high-demand markets like Nashville, Lexington, Houston and Indianapolis. Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration has been used on select on-sales to keep bot inventory off the early window.

Citi cardmember and venue presales typically fill the Wednesday and Thursday slots ahead of public on-sale. Dynamic pricing applies on most Young on-sales, so face value can move during the queue — secondary inventory on weeknight non-major-market dates often drops 20 to 30 percent in the final week before showtime.

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Chris Young setlist

A current Chris Young setlist runs about eighteen to twenty-two songs across 90 to 105 minutes with the radio hits anchoring the pacing front to back. The night typically opens with one of the up-tempo Young Love & Saturday Nights cuts or the older barn-burner "Aw Naw" to set the band's tone, then settles into a singles run that pulls in "Lonely Eyes", "Who I Am with You" and "I'm Comin' Over".

The mid-set traditional-country block usually features "Voices", "The Man I Want to Be", and a Keith Whitley or George Strait cover that nods directly to the influences Young has named in interviews going back fifteen years. "Tomorrow" lands as one of the bigger singalong moments, with the room carrying the chorus, and "Sober Saturday Night" — the Vince Gill co-write — slows the pacing for the emotional pivot before the closing run.

"Famous Friends" is typically performed as a solo Chris Young vocal with the Kane Brown verses handled by either a band member or Young himself, and lands roughly two-thirds of the way through the night. The closing run leans on "Gettin' You Home", "Drinkin' Me Lonely" or "Raised on Country" depending on the leg, with a Young Love & Saturday Nights single often slotted as the encore.

Check setlist.fm after the first night of any new leg for the current run order; fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of last call.

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