Upcoming Drake dates
Dates and live ticket listings appear here as soon as they are on sale. The guide below covers what to know before you buy.
Drake as a live act
Drake is a Canadian rapper and singer from Toronto, born in 1986, and the artist most credited with blending R&B melody into mainstream hip-hop through rap-singing (switching between rapped and sung lines within a song). He tours arenas (indoor venues built for basketball and hockey) and headlines festivals, and he tends to play several nights in each large market rather than adding more cities. Billboard named him its Artist of the Decade for the 2010s and the highest-grossing hip-hop touring artist.
Before music, he played Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001 to 2008). His 2009 mixtape So Far Gone led to a deal with Young Money, and his debut album, Thank Me Later (2010), opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Later albums include Take Care (2011), Nothing Was the Same (2013), Views (2016) and Scorpion (2018). In May 2026, he released Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour together and became the first artist to hold the top three spots on the Billboard 200 at the same time.
What a Drake show looks and sounds like
A Drake concert is a career-spanning hits show with a long set list. On the 2025 Some Special Shows 4 U tour with PartyNextDoor, a typical night ran about two hours and 41 to 45 songs, with Drake taking the stage between roughly 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. and PartyNextDoor handling a segment in the middle. Plan for a late finish; the reported shows ended between 11:00 and 11:30 p.m.
His stages move him around the room. That 2025 tour used a ring-shaped stage that wrapped around a standing-room floor, with walkways down the long sides and larger stages at both ends of the arena, and Drake worked all of them during the night. The 2023 It's All a Blur tour leaned on theatrical props and video between songs, including a giant statue of the late designer Virgil Abloh on opening night. Guest appearances are common, especially in hometown and multi-night runs.
Major tours, by date
The tours below are dated from the cited tour records. The live event list on this page shows any dates currently on sale.
- Club Paradise Tour (2012): his worldwide run supporting Take Care, with Kendrick Lamar among the opening acts.
- Would You Like a Tour? (2013 to 2015): supporting Nothing Was the Same.
- Summer Sixteen Tour (2016): co-headlined with Future; Pollstar ranked it among the top-grossing hip-hop tours.
- Boy Meets World Tour (2017) and Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour (2018).
- It's All a Blur Tour (July 5, 2023, to April 5, 2024): 80 shows and his first North American tour in five years, opening in Chicago and closing in Newark, co-headlined first by 21 Savage and then by J. Cole on the 2024 leg, subtitled Big as the What?
- Anita Max Win Tour (February 2025): 12 arena shows in Australia; the last four dates, including Auckland, were postponed and later canceled.
- Wireless Festival and Some Special Shows 4 U (July to September 2025): he headlined all three nights of London's Wireless Festival, then played 37 European arena shows with PartyNextDoor between July 11 and September 23, 2025.
As of October 1, 2026, his official site listed no tour dates in the sources reviewed.
Choosing seats for a Drake arena show
Stage designs change from tour to tour, so start with the seating map on your event. For the runway and in-the-round setups he has used recently, these principles apply:
- Floor (general admission or reserved): the closest you can get, and with walkways running through the room, the floor can put you within a few feet of him at some point in the night. The floor is flat, though, and the crowd stands for the full show, so shorter fans toward the back watch the screens.
- Lower bowl along the long sides: often the best overall seats for a ring or runway stage. You look down onto the walkways rather than across a crowd, and you see both end stages.
- Lower bowl at the ends: excellent when an end stage sits right in front of you, weaker when the action moves to the far end of the arena. On a traditional end-stage setup, these behind-the-stage seats are the ones to skip unless the listing says the view is open.
- Upper level, center: the value choice. Arenas are compact enough that front rows upstairs read the whole production, and a high angle shows a ring stage better than the floor does.
Because the show starts late and runs long, aisle seats in the lower bowl are worth considering if you expect to leave early to catch transit.
How demand for Drake tickets behaves
Drake sells out fast in his biggest markets. His 2025 Wireless Festival headline run sold out within minutes, the fastest sale in that festival's history, and promoters added extra European arena dates within a day of the first presale for the Some Special Shows 4 U tour because of demand. That pattern repeats across his tours:
- Presales take most first-wave inventory. Artist, fan-club and card-member presales typically run a day or two before the general on-sale.
- Added dates follow quickly. In a city that sells out, a second or third night is often announced, which can soften resale demand for the original date.
- Hometown and special nights draw the most interest. Toronto dates, tour openers and closers, and shows where guests are rumored tend to draw the most resale interest.
- Floor tickets move differently. Standing-room floor tickets are usually the first to sell through and the most volatile on resale.
Every order on GoodSeats is backed by a 100% guarantee. Album and tour announcements come from Drake's official site.
Toronto and the OVO connection
Drake's Toronto identity shapes his live calendar. He co-founded the OVO Sound label and OVO Fest, a Toronto festival first held in 2010 with guests such as Jay-Z and Eminem; it ran annually until a 2019 hiatus and returned in 2022, when he staged a Toronto-only concert series on July 28, July 29 and August 1 that reunited him with Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. Since 2013, he has also served as global ambassador for the NBA's Toronto Raptors, with an annual Drake Night at home games. When a Toronto date appears on the event list, expect it to be among the most contested of any run.
Frequently asked questions
Does Drake play arenas or stadiums?
Mostly arenas, often for several nights in the same city, plus festival headline slots such as London's Wireless Festival in 2025.
How long is a Drake concert?
On his 2025 European tour, shows ran about two hours with 41 to 45 songs, and Drake typically came on between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. Opening acts add time before that.
What are the best seats for a Drake show?
For runway or ring-shaped stages, lower-bowl seats along the long sides of the arena see the walkways and both ends. The floor is closest but flat and standing.
When was Drake's last North American tour?
The It's All a Blur Tour ran from July 5, 2023, to April 5, 2024, with 80 shows across North America.
Why do Drake tickets sell out so quickly?
He plays a limited number of arena nights against heavy demand, and presales absorb much of the first wave. Promoters often add extra nights in cities that sell out.