Nicki Minaj Expands Her Pink Friday World Tour With New Dates

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on January 16, 20242.7K Views

Nicki Minaj Celebrates New Year's Eve At E11EVEN Miami

MIAMI, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 31: Nicki Minaj performs onstage during New Year's Eve at E11EVEN Miami on December 31, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for E11EVEN)

Nicki's massive upcoming tour just got even bigger.

Fans hoping they'll have the chance to see Nicki Minaj perform this year just got some good news. She originally announced the tour last year with 37 confirmed dates from the first day of March until early June. The original announcement features dozens of US dates across many major cities and a number of supplementary European stops afterward. But now even more fans will get the chance to see Nicki as she's shared more than a dozen new tour dates.

Among the 13 new dates are a number of second stops in cities already getting performances. Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam, Manchester, Cologne, and Paris are all getting a second helping of the Pink Friday 2 tour. Brooklyn in particular is even getting a third show among the newly announced dates. She also announced that Nashville and Glasgow will be getting stops on the tour. She's even visiting two entirely new countries with newly added dates in Copenhagen and Stockholm. The tour is just a few days into its presale and has already sold out dozens of arena shows. Check out the announcement of new dates below.

Nicki Minaj Expands Her 2024 Tour

Nicki Minaj's new album Pink Friday 2 has been a massive commercial success. It rode in on a wave of immense hype as her first studio album in 5 years since 2018's Queen. Now over the course of just 5 weeks it hit one million total units sold in the US.

Another major accomplishment for Nicki came on streaming. Pink Friday 2 became the fastest album by a female rapper to reach 1 billion total streams on Spotify. The album was powered by smash singles like "Super Freaky Girl" and "Red Ruby Da Sleeze." It's also spawned some hits among the deep cuts with tracks like "FTCU" and "Everybody." What do you think of Nicki Minaj adding more than a dozen new shows to her upcoming tour? Do you plan on seeing Nicki live in 2024? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.