Shaboozey Tour 2026

Inside Shaboozey

Shaboozey is the stage name of Collins Obinna Chibueze, the Virginia-born country and hip-hop crossover singer-songwriter who, in the summer of 2024, did what every Nashville executive in the previous two decades had told themselves was structurally impossible: he took a country record made by a Black American artist of Nigerian heritage to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and held it there for nineteen weeks, tying the all-time record for the longest run at number one on the chart since the Hot 100's launch in August 1958. The song was "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" — a hand-clap, gang-vocal, J-Kwon-interpolating, Friday-night-anthem hybrid of country line-dance feel and Atlanta hip-hop rhythm that came off Shaboozey's third studio album Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going, released on EMPIRE / American Dogwood Records in May 2024. The single moved from a TikTok-driven word-of-mouth release into Hot 100 dominance over the back half of 2024, charted at the top simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100, the Hot Country Songs chart (where Shaboozey became one of a handful of solo Black artists to hold the #1 country single in the chart's modern history), and the Hot Rap Songs adjacency, and tied Old Town Road and Despacito for the longest #1 run on the all-genre chart since the modern chart era began. The breakout was not accidental. Shaboozey had been working in and around country music since 2014, signed his first deal in 2017, released Lady Wrangler in 2018, dropped Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die in 2022, and was already operating inside the Nashville Black country revival that included Mickey Guyton, Brittney Spencer, Charley Crockett, Willie Jones, and the loose collective around the OurVinyl studios sessions. Beyoncé recruited him for the Cowboy Carter project earlier in 2024 — he appears on "Spaghettii" and "Sweet Honey Buckiin'" on the record that won the 2025 Grammy for Album of the Year — and the Cowboy Carter rollout sat in direct conversation with the Tipsy breakout, the two records reframing country music's audience and ownership boundaries in the same calendar year. The touring response has been the largest single-artist scale-up of the country-pop class in years: arena-tier headlining, large festival headlining slots across Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Glastonbury adjacency, and a sustained run of European and Australian dates that have continued into the current cycle. This page is the landing spot for current tour dates, ticket information, setlists, and city-specific show information, kept evergreen year-round so it tracks every Shaboozey leg as the routing rolls out.

About Shaboozey

Collins Obinna Chibueze was born May 22, 1995 in Woodbridge, Virginia, to Nigerian immigrant parents — his father from Igbo country in southeast Nigeria, his mother from the same region — and raised in northern Virginia within driving distance of both the DC hip-hop scene and the Appalachian country and bluegrass traditions of the western part of the state. He picked up the Shaboozey stage name in high school — a phonetic Anglicisation of the Igbo pronunciation of Chibueze that classmates had drifted into and that he kept — and began writing and recording his own material in 2014. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, dropped out after a year, and committed full-time to music. The early releases were uneven and self-released: a string of singles on SoundCloud, an EP that drifted in and out of streaming availability, and a slowly built catalogue of demos that landed him a publishing relationship and an early management deal by 2017. His first single under the Shaboozey name, "Jeff Gordon", arrived in 2018, and Lady Wrangler — his debut studio album, released on Republic Records and Trippy Mane Records in October 2018 — laid out the genre fusion that would define his career: country guitar tones, hip-hop drum programming, gang vocals, and a Virginia-Nigerian-American narrative voice that did not fit cleanly into Nashville or Atlanta but borrowed visibly from both. The record sold modestly and received mixed press, and Shaboozey spent the next three years off the major-label cycle — writing, recording, building the touring base from the bottom up. Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die, released independently on EMPIRE in May 2022, was the record that began the slow national breakthrough. The single "Tall Boy" got country radio attention in select markets, the album cycle drew the first wave of mainstream country press, and Shaboozey began appearing at the Grand Ole Opry and on Nashville songwriter showcases. By 2023 he was operating inside the loose Black country revival cohort — collaborating with Charley Crockett, opening dates for Brothers Osborne and Jelly Roll, and beginning the writing sessions that would become Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going. The Beyoncé connection came in early 2024. Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé's eighth studio album and her first explicit country-genre release, came out on March 29, 2024, and featured Shaboozey on two tracks: "Spaghettii" alongside Linda Martell, and "Sweet Honey Buckiin'". His placements on the most-discussed album of 2024 immediately raised his commercial profile, and "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" — released as a single on April 12, 2024 and as the lead song from Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (May 31, 2024) — caught the wave. The song interpolated J-Kwon's 2004 hip-hop hit "Tipsy" over a country chord progression, hand claps, gang vocals on the chorus, and a lyric anchored in the universal weekend-bar-night experience. It moved from a TikTok-driven word-of-mouth start to country radio adds in mid-June, crossed onto pop radio by early July, and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated July 13, 2024. It stayed at number one for nineteen consecutive weeks, tying Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" (2019) and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" (2017) for the all-time record for the longest #1 run on the Hot 100 since the chart's launch in 1958. The song hit #1 simultaneously on the Hot Country Songs chart, made Shaboozey one of only a small handful of solo Black artists in the chart's history to hold the top country single in the modern era, and turned Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going into a multi-platinum top-five Billboard 200 record. The 2025 Grammy nominations followed in November 2024: Best New Artist, Song of the Year ("A Bar Song (Tipsy)"), Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song, and Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter as a featured guest contributor. Shaboozey continues to record on EMPIRE under his American Dogwood Records imprint and tours globally as a country-pop crossover headliner.

Shaboozey tour dates

Shaboozey's current touring cycle is the global headlining run that followed the Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going breakout in 2024 — a routing that has moved him from theatre and club dates in early 2024 through amphitheatre and festival headlining slots across the back half of 2024 and into arena-tier headlining in 2025. The active leg covers North American arenas and large amphitheatres alongside selected outdoor festival headlining slots, with European and Australian routings filling the back half of each calendar cycle and additional dates expected through the second half of the decade — specific 2026 routing claims are hedged pending official announcement. The live band is a six- to eight-piece configuration with guitar, bass, drums, keys, banjo or steel guitar on rotating songs, and backing vocalists handling the gang-vocal choruses that anchor "A Bar Song (Tipsy)", "Last of My Kind", and the deeper Where I've Been catalogue. Sets run 75 to 90 minutes on headlining dates and 60 to 75 minutes at festival slots, structured to land "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" as the back-half anchor while pulling the broader Where I've Been, Cowboy Carter feature material, and select Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die cuts into the wider show. Stage production is deliberately mid-scale by the standards of the current arena cycle — warm tungsten and amber lighting, a back-line riser, a band-forward staging that puts the players visibly inside the show rather than behind a wall of LED video. Support acts rotate by leg and have included rising country-adjacent artists from the Black country revival cohort and the EMPIRE roster — past openers across the cycle have featured Myles Smith, Stephen Wilson Jr., and a rotating bench of country-radio breakouts. Door times typically run 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. for arena dates and 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. for amphitheatre and outdoor festival routings. The grid above pulls the live schedule directly from Ticketmaster and updates as new Shaboozey dates are confirmed and added.

Shaboozey tickets

Shaboozey tickets are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet in North America and most of Europe, with AXS handling selected US dates and regional primary partners (Ticketek in Australia, Eventim across the EU) routing the remainder. Verified Fan registration has been used on the highest-demand arena on-sales — particularly the New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Toronto markets — to filter bot inventory out of the early window. Pricing on the current Shaboozey headlining cycle typically opens with upper-tier and lawn seats in the $35–$70 range, mid-bowl and reserved-pavilion seats $90–$160, lower-bowl and pit general admission $180–$300, and a small allocation of VIP packages — early entry, pre-show acoustic moment, signed merchandise, photo opportunity — at $400 and up. Festival routings carry the host festival's overall pricing model; expect $250–$500 for single-day passes at headlining-tier festivals (Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits) and $700–$1,500 for the full multi-day pass. Fan club presales through shaboozey.com and Spotify presales typically open the Tuesday or Wednesday before the Friday public on-sale; Citi cardmember and venue presales fill the rest of the week. Dynamic pricing has been applied on the highest-demand markets, so face value can move during the queue — refresh the secondary market the week of the show on mid-market amphitheatre dates and you'll often catch a 15 to 25 percent drop on lawn and reserved pairs. Secondary market reality on the in-demand dates — New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, Atlanta, Toronto — is that face-value tickets do not last long, and the cleanest verified resale routes are Ticketmaster Verified Resale, AXS Official Resale, and SeatGeek's verified marketplace. Avoid generic search-ad ticket sites and any seller insisting on payment outside an escrowed marketplace.

Shaboozey setlist

A current Shaboozey setlist runs about 16 to 20 songs across 75 to 90 minutes on headlining dates and a tighter 12 to 14 song run at festival headlining slots. The night usually opens with one of the harder-driving Where I've Been cuts — "Anabelle", "Vegas", or "Drink Don't Need No Mix" — to set the country-and-hip-hop crossover tone of the live band, then lands quickly on a stretch of the album's most familiar tracks: "Last of My Kind", "Highway", "My Fault", and "Good News" carry the first half of the show. The mid-set rotates Cowboy Carter feature material — Shaboozey performs "Spaghettii" or "Sweet Honey Buckiin'" in a stripped-back arrangement that nods to the Beyoncé original without trying to replicate the studio production — and pulls in the deeper catalogue from Cowboys Live Forever, Outlaws Never Die ("Tall Boy", "Beverly Hills") and from Lady Wrangler for the long-time fans. A two- or three-song acoustic break in the middle of the set, with Shaboozey on guitar and a single accompanying musician on banjo or pedal steel, has become a recurring fixture of the live show. "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" lands as the back-half anchor and routinely turns into the loudest singalong moment on the touring cycle — the gang-vocal chorus carries the entire audience and the J-Kwon interpolation hook is treated as a sustained crowd participation moment. The closing run rotates "Last of My Kind", a Cowboy Carter feature, and an extended outro on "Drink Don't Need No Mix" or "Highway", with the encore typically a stripped-back acoustic reprise of "A Bar Song" or a previously unreleased song depending on the leg. Night-by-night variation is real — Shaboozey rotates the acoustic break and the mid-set Cowboy Carter slot more than the rest of the run. Setlist.fm is the most reliable real-time source for confirming exactly what your specific date is playing; fan submissions usually go up within a couple of hours of the show ending.

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