Doja Cat Tour 2026

Inside Doja Cat

Doja Cat is the Tarzana-born rapper, singer, and producer whose decade-long climb from SoundCloud agitator to one of the most genuinely unpredictable working pop stars has come without a single course correction that felt like compromise. She is, by birth certificate, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini — daughter of a South African Zulu actor and a Jewish-American painter, raised in the San Fernando Valley on a household diet of Erykah Badu, Busta Rhymes, and the late-1990s alt-rap canon, and self-taught on FL Studio in a bedroom long before any label paid attention.

The career detonator was Mooo!, a 2018 cow-themed novelty record built around a bovine sample loop, uploaded to YouTube with a webcam-and-fur-bikini video that the broader internet treated as a joke for about a week before the production craftsmanship underneath the meme became impossible to deny. Hot Pink in 2019 produced Say So, the TikTok phenomenon that broke her into the absolute mainstream and ran the table on the streaming charts; Planet Her in 2021 deepened the project into a stadium-ready pop-and-R&B record with Kiss Me More featuring SZA, Need to Know, Woman, and the Elvis-soundtrack record Vegas; Scarlet in 2023 was the deliberate left turn — a darker, denser, industrial-leaning rap album with Paint the Town Red as the surprise number-one single, Agora Hills as the slow-burning fan favourite, and Demons as the visual and sonic centerpiece.

The current touring cycle behind Scarlet has pulled the live show toward arena-tier industrial-goth visuals with dancer-heavy choreography and a willingness to alienate the audience that came in expecting Say So — the cycle is currently transitioning into the Vie era, her announced fifth studio record. This page is the working guide to who Doja Cat is, what a Scarlet Tour show actually delivers, how the ticketing operation runs, and which cities keep landing on the routing.

About Doja Cat

Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini was born October 21, 1995, in Tarzana, a Los Angeles neighbourhood at the western end of the San Fernando Valley, to South African Zulu actor and dancer Dumisani Dlamini (best known for the original cast of the musical Sarafina!) and Jewish-American painter Deborah Sawyer.

Her parents separated when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother and grandmother, spending part of her early childhood on the Sai Anantam Ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains before the family moved back to suburban Los Angeles. She dropped out of school in her early teens to focus on dance and music, taught herself production on FL Studio across long nights in her bedroom, and began uploading tracks to SoundCloud under the Doja Cat handle — chosen partly as a nod to her affection for cats and partly as a reference to the slang for high-grade cannabis.

The 2014 SoundCloud cut So High caught the attention of Kemosabe Records (Dr. Luke's RCA imprint) and RCA, who signed her to a development deal that produced the Purrr!

EP in 2014 and her debut full-length Amala in 2018 — a record that landed quietly and might have ended the experiment entirely if not for what happened next. Mooo!, the cow-sample novelty record she made and shot the video for in her bedroom on a slow afternoon in August 2018, went viral on YouTube and Twitter inside a week, the broader internet treated it as a joke for about seven days before the production craftsmanship underneath the meme became impossible to ignore, and the second-life of Amala that followed reframed the entire project.

Hot Pink in November 2019 produced Say So — the TikTok dance trend that propelled the song into the absolute mainstream, the Nicki Minaj remix that pushed it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, the number-one single — and she became, almost overnight, one of the most-streamed working artists of the early-2020s pop era. Planet Her in June 2021 cemented the pivot into stadium pop and R&B: Kiss Me More with SZA, Need to Know, Woman, You Right with The Weeknd, and the Elvis-soundtrack record Vegas built into the catalogue across the next twelve months.

Scarlet in September 2023 was the deliberate genre and image left turn — a darker, denser, rap-forward album with industrial and goth-coded visual direction, Paint the Town Red as the surprise number-one single (and the first true hip-hop number-one for a solo female artist in years), Agora Hills as the slow-burning fan favourite, Demons as the visual centrepiece, and a public stance that she was done making radio-friendly pop on demand. The Vie era, her announced fifth studio record, is the current pivot.

She remains signed to Kemosabe and RCA, lives between Los Angeles and select international residencies, and continues to produce and co-write the majority of her own material.

Scarlet Tour

The Scarlet Tour is structured as an arena-tier global run supporting the Scarlet record, with the cycle currently transitioning into the announced Vie era and routing patterns expected to shift toward the new album's visual language as the new cycle rolls out. North American legs anchor on Crypto.com Arena and Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center in New York, the United Center in Chicago, the Toyota Center in Houston, the American Airlines Center in Dallas, the Kaseya Center in Miami, and the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, with European, UK, and Asia-Pacific legs routing through The O2 in London, the Accor Arena in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.

The production is built around what the touring crew has framed as the Scarlet visual language — industrial-goth set design, brutalist metal scaffolding, blood-red and bone-white lighting states, and dancer-heavy choreography across a corps that runs eight to twelve dancers depending on the room. Doja's own performance is centred on rapping and singing live across in-ear monitor support, with the choreography pulling visual references from horror cinema, modern art performance, and the body-art aesthetic she has leaned into across recent press cycles.

A typical headline set runs 100 to 115 minutes across 24 to 28 songs with no extended interlude breaks, one support act warming the room — the cycle has used Ice Spice, Doechii, and adjacent rap and alt-pop opener-tier artists — and a hard cut from the final encore song to house lights. Doors are typically 6:30 p.m., support around 8, Doja on stage around 9.

The live event listings above this block are the working calendar — filter by city or date for current on-sale status.

Doja Cat tickets

Scarlet Tour tickets sell primarily through Ticketmaster on a structured on-sale model that runs the official Kemosabe and RCA fan-club presale window (registered through dojacat.com), then an artist or Verified Fan presale designed to filter bot and scalper accounts out of the queue, then the final public window. Face value across the cycle has typically run from a rough US$55 to US$80 for upper-bowl reserved, US$100 to US$180 for lower-bowl, and US$200 to US$450 for floor and lower-bowl premium with the front-rail and dancer-side seats carrying the steepest band.

VIP packages have appeared on select dates through Ticketmaster's VIP Nation channel — soundcheck access, an early-entry venue lounge, a tour-exclusive merch set, a commemorative laminate, and on select dates a pre-show artist Q&A — but no commercial handshake-and-photo-with-Doja tier is sold through any official channel, and any third-party listing advertising a guaranteed meet-and-greet should be treated as a scam. Resale moves through Ticketmaster's standard secondary marketplace plus the standard third-party sites (StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats) without the face-value cap that anchors the Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo touring economies — Scarlet floor inventory routinely trades at two to four times face on the secondary market in the hours after on-sale, with the gap widening on the marquee multi-night residencies in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and London.

Mobile-only ticketing applies across the cycle, transfer rules vary by jurisdiction, and screenshots and PDF prints are not honoured at the venue door.

Doja Cat setlist

A Scarlet Tour set runs roughly 100 to 115 minutes across 24 to 28 songs and is structured around the Scarlet record front-to-back-adjacent rather than a singles-first arena pop run. The opening act pulls from the new album — Paint the Town Red as the visual centrepiece, Demons, Agora Hills, Often, Wet Vagina, Balut, and the deeper Scarlet cuts — across the industrial-goth set with the full dancer corps and the heaviest lighting states.

The middle act loops back into the Planet Her catalogue: Need to Know, Woman, Kiss Me More (without SZA's verse on the live arrangement, occasionally replaced by a guest vocalist on co-headline festival dates), Get Into It (Yuh), and You Right. The closing act runs Streets as the slow-burning fan-favourite reset, Say So as the singalong anchor of the night with the Nicki Minaj remix verse occasionally referenced, Vegas with the Elvis-sample horn arrangement reworked live by the touring band, and a hard-cut into the encore.

The encore typically lands on a Scarlet-era closer — Attention or Balut on shifting routings — and reads as a deliberate refusal to send the room out on the Say So or Kiss Me More dopamine high a more conventional pop tour would chase. The Mooo!

origin record almost never appears on the working setlist anymore; the Hot Pink-era catalogue is similarly thinned out. Exact running order shifts night to night within those three acts; setlist.fm tracks each show after the fact.

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