Tyla’s A*POP World Tour Starts Monday in Paris: Every Date, From Zénith to Johannesburg

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Tyla already has two Grammys, a Coachella set, a World Cup opening ceremony and three Met Galas behind her, but she has never done this: a full headline tour of North America, Europe, the U.K. and Africa. The A*POP World Tour opens Monday (Oct. 12) at Zénith Paris, the first of 34 dates that run through Jan. 9 in Johannesburg.

The European leg moves fast, with 12 shows in three weeks, including London’s O2 Academy Brixton (Oct. 15), Brussels, Berlin and Oslo before it wraps Nov. 1 in Copenhagen. North America starts Nov. 12 at Hard Rock Live in Wheatland, Calif., stops at Toronto’s Coca-Cola Coliseum, the Brooklyn Paramount and Austin’s Moody Center, and ends Dec. 19 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Then she heads to Africa: Lagos on Dec. 22, then home to South Africa for Cape Town (Jan. 4) and Johannesburg (Jan. 9).

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It’s all in support of A*POP, the 14-track second album she released through FAX and Epic on July 24. “CHANEL” topped Billboard’s U.S. Afrobeats chart, “SHE DID IT AGAIN” brought in Zara Larsson, and “IS IT LOVE” gave her a record fourth No. 1 on that chart. In July she also became the first international artist to headline halftime at the WNBA All-Star Game.

“The direction of the album was really just to make whatever I wanted to make, and to be so limitless in my idea of what pop sounds like,” she told ELLE UK for its October cover story. “My dream of being a pop star was a very big dream.”

She has been warming up on camera. Vevo’s Official Live Performance series has filmed her doing “IS IT LOVE” and, on Sept. 17, “FEEL SOMETHING.” Watch the latest below.

Tyla, “FEEL SOMETHING” (Vevo Official Live Performance)TylaVEVO · Watch on YouTube ↗

The tour ends where her favorite shows happen. Her most memorable moments onstage, she told ELLE, come in South Africa, because “support from home always feels different.”

Every date

Europe and the U.K.: Oct. 12, Paris (Zénith Paris) · Oct. 13, Amsterdam (AFAS Live) · Oct. 15, London (O2 Academy Brixton) · Oct. 18, Glasgow (O2 Academy Glasgow) · Oct. 19, Manchester (O2 Apollo Manchester) · Oct. 22, Brussels (Forest National) · Oct. 24, Düsseldorf (Mitsubishi Electric HALLE) · Oct. 25, Frankfurt (Stadthalle Offenbach) · Oct. 27, Berlin (Uber Eats Music Hall) · Oct. 29, Stockholm (Annexet) · Oct. 30, Oslo (Oslo Spektrum) · Nov. 1, Copenhagen (K.B. Hallen)

North America: Nov. 12, Wheatland, Calif. (Hard Rock Live) · Nov. 13, San Francisco (Bill Graham Civic Auditorium) · Nov. 15, Vancouver (Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre) · Nov. 17, Seattle (WAMU Theater) · Nov. 20, Denver (Fillmore Auditorium) · Nov. 22, Chicago (Aragon Ballroom) · Nov. 25, Boston (MGM Music Hall at Fenway) · Nov. 26, Toronto (Coca-Cola Coliseum) · Nov. 28, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Paramount) · Dec. 2, Washington, D.C. (The Anthem) · Dec. 5, Tampa (Yuengling Center) · Dec. 6, Atlanta (Coca-Cola Roxy) · Dec. 9, Irving, Texas (The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory) · Dec. 10, Houston (713 Music Hall) · Dec. 11, Austin (Moody Center) · Dec. 14, Phoenix (Arizona Financial Theatre) · Dec. 15, San Diego (Viejas Arena) · Dec. 16, Los Angeles (YouTube Theater) · Dec. 19, Las Vegas (Fontainebleau Las Vegas)

Africa: Dec. 22, Lagos (venue to be announced) · Jan. 4, Cape Town (Green Point Track) · Jan. 9, Johannesburg (Expo Centre, Nasrec)