The Nicki Wrld Tour

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The Nicki Wrld Tour
Tour by Nicki Minaj with Juice Wrld
The Nicki Wrld Tour.jpg
Promotional poster for the European leg
Associated albums Queen
Death Race for Love
Start dateFebruary 21, 2019 (2019-02-21)
End dateMarch 28, 2019 (2019-03-28)
Legs1
No. of shows19
Nicki Minaj tour chronology
The Pinkprint Tour
(2015–16)
The Nicki Wrld Tour
(2019)
Pink Friday 2 World Tour
(2024)
Juice Wrld tour chronology
The Nicki Wrld Tour
(2019)
Death Race for Love Tour (2019)

The Nicki Wrld Tour was a concert tour by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj and American rapper Juice Wrld. The European tour supported Minaj's fourth studio album, Queen (2018), and Juice Wrld's second studio album, Death Race for Love (2019). The tour began on February 21, 2019, in Munich, Germany at Olympiahalle and concluded on March 28, 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland at SEG Geneva Arena, consisting of 19 shows.

Contents

The tour was originally titled the NickiHndrxx Tour with Future and was to include a North American leg which was set to begin in 2018. Juice Wrld was later announced as the replacement for Future as the co-headliner.

Background

During an interview on Beats 1 Radio in April 2018, Minaj announced the release date of her fourth studio album Queen, as well as touring plans. [1] [2] The NickiHndrxx Tour was officially announced in June of the same year, with co-headliner Future. The tour was set to begin in early September, but the North American leg was later postponed as Minaj "decided to re-evaluate elements of production". [3] [4] In December 2018, Minaj announced that co-headliner Future withdrew, and was replaced by American rapper Juice Wrld, and that the tour could commence in Europe. [5]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show in Munich, on February 21, 2019. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour. [6] [ failed verification ]

  1. "Majesty"
  2. "Hard White"
  3. "Feeling Myself"
  4. "Only"
  5. "Truffle Butter"
  6. "Did It On'em"
  7. "Beez in the Trap"
  8. "Rake It Up"
  9. "Dance (A$$)"
  10. "Big Bank"
  11. "Fefe"
  12. "Anaconda"
  13. "Roman's Revenge"
  14. "Up All Night"
  15. "Throw Sum Mo"
  16. "Plain Jane"
  17. "Itty Bitty Piggy"
  18. "Your Love"
  19. "Make Me Proud"
  20. "Monster"
  21. "Turn Me On"
  22. "Whip It"
  23. "Pound the Alarm"
  24. "Starships"
  25. "Where Them Girls At"
  26. "All Things Go"
  27. "Save Me"
  28. "Right Thru Me"
  29. "Come See About Me"
  30. "Grand Piano"
  31. "Bed" / "Side to Side"
  32. "Swalla"
  33. "Chun-Li"
  34. "Moment 4 Life"

Encore

  1. "The Night Is Still Young" (Interlude)
  2. "Super Bass"

Notes

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, amount of available tickets, and gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actAttendanceRevenue
Leg 1 — Europe [10] [11] [12] [13]
February 21, 2019 Munich Germany Olympiahalle Zuna & Azet
Miami Yacine
Juice WRLD
February 24, 2019 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena Smolasty
Juice WRLD
February 25, 2019 Budapest Hungary Budapest Sportarena Juice WRLD
February 28, 2019 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena Zuna & Azet
Miami Yacine
Juice WRLD
March 1, 2019 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena Vild Smith
Juice WRLD
March 3, 2019 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum Kjartan Lauritzen
Juice WRLD
March 4, 2019 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe Lil Xan
Juice WRLD
March 6, 2019 Brussels Belgium Palais 12 Lord Gasmique
Juice WRLD
3,560 / 6,141$262,739
March 7, 2019 Paris France AccorHotels Arena Koba LaD
Juice WRLD
March 11, 2019 London England The O2 Arena Juice WRLD
Ray BLK
March 14, 2019 Birmingham Arena Birmingham 5,626 / 10,413$501,518
March 17, 2019 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro 8,380 / 8,515$645,199
March 18, 2019 Manchester England Manchester Arena 10,334 /

11,468

$754,051
March 20, 2019 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal Juice WRLD
March 22, 2019 Frankfurt Germany Festhalle Zuna & Azet
Miami Yacine
Juice WRLD
March 23, 2019 Cologne Lanxess Arena 10,360 / 12,000$801,502
March 25, 2019 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Josylvio
Juice WRLD
5,446 / 7,056$233,432
March 27, 2019 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion Juice WRLD5,724 / 13,000$512,983
March 28, 2019 Geneva SEG Geneva Arena
Total43,830 / 68,593
(58%)
$3,711,424

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
DateCityCountryVenueReason
February 22, 2019 Bratislava Slovakia Ondrej Nepela Arena Technical difficulties [14] [15]
March 9, 2019 Bordeaux France Arkéa Arena
March 15, 2019 Dublin Ireland 3Arena Adverse weather conditions [16]

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