Jay-Z Announces 2026 Concerts in Paris and Los Angeles

Following his performance at the Roots Picnic earlier this month and his three upcoming Yankee Stadium shows, Jay-Z and Roc Nation have announced retrospective “Jay-Z 30” shows in Paris on Thursday, September 10, 2026, and Los Angeles on Friday, October 23.

Tickets will be available beginning Thursday, June 11 through Citi and Mastercard presales (details below). The general on-sale will begin Friday, June 12 at 10am local time at livenation.com.

SHOW DATES

PARIS

Thursday, September 10, 2026  – Stade de France

LOS ANGELES

Friday, October 23, 2026 – SoFi Stadium

CITI PRESALE: Citi is the official card of the Jay-Z 30 performance in Los Angeles. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Thursday, June 11 at 10am local time until 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visitwww.citientertainment.com.

MASTERCARD PRESALE: Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets for JAŸ-Z 30 in Paris. Mastercard Presale starts Thursday, June 11 at 10am local time until 10pm local time.

While the exact format of the shows was not announced, as the title (which features the latest version of his stage name, this time including an umlaut) indicates, they continue the 30th anniversary theme of his 2026 concerts. His Yankee Stadium shows next month will celebrate the anniversaries of two of his most celebrated albums — “Reasonable Doubt” and “The Blueprint,” while the Philadelphia concert was a more broad career retrospective, with an emphasis on celebrating the city’s culture: Jay-Z was backed by the Roots, who’d joined him for his “Unplugged” concert in 2001, and special guests included hometown heroes Jazmine Sullivan, Bilal Freeway and Beanie Sigel.

Variety‘s Steven J. Horowitz wrote of the Philadelphia concert: “Twenty-five years later, [Jay and the Roots’] creative synergy has only strengthened. The show was muscular, a one-off that brought them back together for a tour of Jay-Z’s catalog with the Roots’ ability to make precision look spontaneous. That much was hidden in the details — the interweaving of ‘I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)’ and ‘Big Pimpin’,’ for instance, or the sudden switch from ‘Dirt Off Your Shoulder’ into ‘I Know’ — and was clearly a labor of love. Jay-Z himself acknowledged this at the end of the set: ‘We worked really hard to put this together.’”

Variety will have more information on the shows as it becomes available.