Not Paris, where the A*POP World Tour opens. Not Los Angeles or London, where the industry does its counting. Johannesburg — the city Tyla grew up in, the city she was still living in when “Water” turned her into a global export almost overnight, and the city she has not headlined since becoming one of the biggest pop stars on the planet.
Three days after releasing her sophomore album, Tyla posted the routing to Instagram on July 27. Thirty-four dates. Four continents. And a run that deliberately saves South Africa for last.
What the A*POP World Tour actually is
This is Tyla’s first full-scale headline tour across Europe, the UK, North America, and Africa in a single run — and the scale of that sentence is the story.
Her 2024 outing, the Tyla Tour, was derailed before it started. An injury forced the cancellation of the North American leg and pushed the European dates back indefinitely. What eventually happened looked nothing like what was announced. Then came 2025’s We Wanna Party Tour, a leaner run through Asia that proved the demand was real — she sold out Ariake Arena in Tokyo and pulled sellouts across Japan and the UAE.
The A*POP World Tour, presented by Live Nation, is the version she was supposed to get the first time.
Opening night: October 12 at Zenith Paris. European and UK leg: twelve dates through November 1 in Copenhagen. North American leg: November 12 through December 19, closing at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. African leg: Lagos on December 22, Cape Town on January 4, Johannesburg on January 9.
Full A*POP World Tour dates and venues
Europe & UK
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12 | Paris, France | Zenith Paris |
| Oct 13 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | AFAS Live |
| Oct 15 | London, England | O2 Academy Brixton |
| Oct 18 | Glasgow, Scotland | O2 Academy Glasgow |
| Oct 19 | Manchester, England | O2 Apollo Manchester |
| Oct 22 | Brussels, Belgium | Forest National |
| Oct 24 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Mitsubishi Electric HALLE |
| Oct 25 | Frankfurt, Germany | Stadthalle Offenbach |
| Oct 27 | Berlin, Germany | Uber Eats Music Hall |
| Oct 29 | Stockholm, Sweden | Annexet |
| Oct 30 | Oslo, Norway | Oslo Spektrum |
| Nov 1 | Copenhagen, Denmark | K.B. Hallen |
North America
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 12 | Wheatland, CA | Hard Rock Live |
| Nov 13 | San Francisco, CA | Bill Graham Civic Auditorium |
| Nov 15 | Vancouver, BC | Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre |
| Nov 17 | Seattle, WA | WAMU Theater at Lumen Field |
| Nov 20 | Denver, CO | Fillmore Auditorium |
| Nov 22 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom |
| Nov 25 | Boston, MA | MGM Music Hall at Fenway |
| Nov 26 | Toronto, ON | Coca-Cola Coliseum |
| Nov 28 | Brooklyn, NY | Brooklyn Paramount |
| Dec 2 | Washington, DC | The Anthem |
| Dec 5 | Tampa, FL | Yuengling Center |
| Dec 6 | Atlanta, GA | Coca-Cola Roxy |
| Dec 9 | Irving, TX | The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory |
| Dec 10 | Houston, TX | 713 Music Hall |
| Dec 11 | Austin, TX | Moody Center |
| Dec 14 | Phoenix, AZ | Arizona Financial Theatre |
| Dec 15 | San Diego, CA | Viejas Arena |
| Dec 16 | Los Angeles, CA | YouTube Theater |
| Dec 19 | Las Vegas, NV | Fontainebleau Las Vegas |
Africa
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 22 | Lagos, Nigeria | TBA |
| Jan 4 | Cape Town, South Africa | Green Point Track |
| Jan 9 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Expo Centre, Nasrec |
Note: the tour poster lists the Nov 12 stop as Sacramento. Hard Rock Live sits in Wheatland, about 40 minutes north of the city — same show, different label.
How to get tickets
| Sale | Date | Time | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist presale | Wednesday, July 29 | 10:00 a.m. local | Laylo (sign up at TylaWorld.com) |
| General on-sale | Friday, July 31 | 10:00 a.m. local | Ticketmaster |
Fans in Europe and the UK should expect the London Brixton date to move fastest — it is the smallest room on the leg relative to demand, and Tyla’s UK numbers have been climbing since “Chanel.”
The album this tour is selling
A*POP landed on July 24 through FAX and Epic Records. Fourteen tracks. Features from Zara Larsson, MaWhoo, Babalwa M, and Liquideep. Production credits spread across Believve, Ian Kirkpatrick, Mocha Bands, P2J, Ari PenSmith, and Sammy Soso.
Tyla announced it from the stage at the 2026 Grammy Awards on February 1 — the same night she became the first artist to win Best African Music Performance twice.
The rollout numbers back up the routing.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| First-day Spotify streams (global) | 4.817 million — her biggest album debut |
| First-day Spotify streams (South Africa) | 593,000 |
| South African chart penetration | All 14 new songs in the Spotify SA Top 100 |
| Apple Music | No. 1 in 7 countries; peaked at No. 5 on the Worldwide Album chart |
| Apple Music South Africa | First album by a woman in 2026 to hit No. 1 |
| iTunes South Africa | Explicit and clean editions held Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously — a career first |
| Metacritic | 82 |
| Projected US first-week units | ~12,000 |
| Cumulative Spotify streams across the tracklist | 550 million+ |
First-day Spotify streams by track
| Track | Streams (Day 1) |
|---|---|
| THAT GIRL | 925,000 |
| CHANEL | 659,000 |
| SHE DID IT AGAIN (feat. Zara Larsson) | 582,000 |
| IS IT LOVE | 364,000 |
| KISS | 327,000 |
| IS IT | 321,000 |
| FAIRYTALE (feat. Liquideep) | 260,000 |
| MR. NONCHALANT | 247,000 |
| DOUBLE BLIND | 234,000 |
There is one honest wrinkle in those numbers. Despite a 4.8 million-stream opening day, no individual A*POP track cracked Spotify’s Daily Top Songs Global or US charts on July 24 — the streams were spread evenly across the record rather than concentrated in one runaway single. That is a common pattern for albums bought into by an existing fanbase, and it is the exact gap a 34-date tour is designed to close.
The pre-release singles did the heavy lifting. “Chanel,” out since October 2025, has approached 400 million Spotify streams and reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Is It Love” became her fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s US Afrobeats chart.
Why this run is different
Tyla has been careful about how she describes the record, and the framing is worth paying attention to.
<cite index=”47-1″>”Me being in it, I feel so different to how I felt during the first album,”</cite> she said. The debut, by her own account, arrived in the middle of chaos she had no control over. This one was made by someone who had time to decide what she wanted.
That confidence shows up in the routing as much as the music. She is not chasing the largest possible rooms — most of the North American venues are theaters and mid-size halls rather than arenas, which is a slower, sturdier way to build a live audience than overselling a market once and never returning. Bill Graham Civic, Aragon Ballroom, The Anthem, Brooklyn Paramount: these are rooms artists grow out of on purpose.
And then the ending. Lagos, Cape Town, Johannesburg — three African dates placed at the finish line rather than tacked on as an afterthought, closing at Nasrec’s Expo Centre in the city she is from.
For an artist who spent two years being described as an ambassador for African pop on stages everywhere except home, that is not a scheduling decision. That is the whole point.
