100 Most Popular Musicians on Tour in 2019

Incubus have a number of shows lined up in support of their most recent studio album “8.” The album was partially produced and mixed by dubstep giant Skrillex.

Following his release from prison in August 2018, 21-year-old rapper Kodak Black released his No. 1 album — “Dying to Live” — in December. Black currently only has one concert scheduled for 2019, and it will take place at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

American DJ Diplo has a string of tour dates across the U.S. scheduled for 2019. He hasn’t released a solo full-length album in years, yet he has no shortage of new material considering his extensive work collaborating with other artists.

The all-around productive Tyler, The Creator has two major concerts lined up for 2019. The rapper will be co-headlining the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York and is also playing the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware.

Wu-Tang Clan, the legendary hip hop group from Staten Island, has four shows scheduled near the end of January 2019: two nights in Philadelphia and two in New York.

Country music singer Tim McGraw will be playing a number of shows in the U.S. and Canada before shipping off to Australia later this year. McGraw is highly active on the road, wrapping his “Soul2Soul” world tour with wife Faith Hill just this past summer.

Singer Mary J. Blige has only two shows scheduled, starting this summer. The first is a part of the Cincinnati Music Festival, and the second will take place in Southaven, Mississippi.

English heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden continue to live the life of road dogs over 40 years after forming. This July, the band will continue its “Legacy of the Beast” tour, with metal band The Raven Age scheduled to open each show.

Norah Jones has 11 concerts currently scheduled, including a Willie Nelson concert celebration in Nashville, Tennessee. While Jones hasn’t released a full length album since 2016’s “Day Breaks,” she did release a new song, “Wintertime,” this past year.

Lupe Fiasco fans living near Los Angeles have reason to rejoice — the rapper’s one concert scheduled for 2019 is taking place in the California city. Fiasco will almost certainly perform songs from his recent album “Drogas Wave.”

Despite Offspring guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman recently reporting that the band was currently working on two new records, the rockers have 13 concerts lined up. While the majority of shows will take place overseas, the band will be playing at Camp Anarchy in Thornville, Ohio this May.

English singer Robbie Williams will be kicking off his first ever Las Vegas residency this March. The concerts will take place into July 2019.

American rock band Evanescence has a mere three tour dates currently scheduled in 2019, with shows in Jacksonville, Florida; Rockingham, North Carolina; and Camden, New Jersey. Vocalist Amy Lee reported this past summer that the band was also planning to work on a new album.

Marshmello, aka Christopher Comstock, is an electronic music producer, DJ, and masked performer whose tour destinations include Australia in February, Sweden in May and June, and Germany in June.

This Australian-born psychedelic/dance band has seven concerts scheduled for spring and summer of this year, including appearances in Paris, Barcelona, and Helsinki as well as Atlanta and (for Coachella 2019) Indio, California. Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker has announced that the group hopes to release a new album this summer.

The 74-year-old diva shows no signs of slowing down. After kicking off 2019 with an appearance on Jan. 9 at the Walt Disney Theater in Orlando, Florida, she is scheduled for a dozen other concert dates just in the first two months of the year, all but one at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.

The Tallahassee, Florida, native, born Faheem Najm, who broke through with the R&B single “I’m Sprung” in 2005, will tour the Northeast, Georgia, and Texas in the first three months of the year, then tour California for four concerts in April.

This rock-and-roll horn band, formed way back in 1967, is scheduled to play the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, AZ this February. So far, no plans to perform in its eponymous home city.

An English indie-rock band that debuted in 2006, the Kooks will tour this year from the second week in February (Oakland, California) through the second week in August (Piestany, Slovakia).

The legendary 85-year-old singer and songwriter, who has transcended the country genre to become one of the nation’s best-known popular vocalists of any kind, hit the road on Jan. 7 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, starting a 15-city tour that ends in New Braunfels, Texas, on April 13.

Last year’s “Wildness” was this Northern Irish/Scottish alt-rock band’s first album in seven years, but there’s no lag in their touring schedule. They have 58 shows on the books between now and mid-July, according to Songkick, only 19 of them in the U.S. and the rest throughout Europe and in Mexico, South America, Canada, and the Middle East.

The Grammy Award winning trio, which formed in 2006, combines country with 1960s R&B. The group has four concerts scheduled in Las Vegas in February before they head to the U.K. for concerts in Glasgow, Scotland, and London.

Atlanta rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams, who performs as Young Thug, has only one U.S. appearance currently scheduled — at the Pot of Gold Music Festival in Phoenix in mid-March.

Miguel, whose full name is Miguel Jontel Pimentel, is a singer, songwriter, and producer who’s worked with such artists as Mariah Carey and Mac Miller. He’ll be performing at House of Blues in Dallas in April.

This popular Irish singer-songwriter, whose most recent release was a four-song EP that came out in September, has announced that he has a new album underway, due later this year. His extensive 2019 touring schedule includes two April performances at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, a famous celebrity graveyard (its inhabitants range from Rudolph Valentino to Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone) that also regularly hosts concerts.

The indie band from New York City that won a 2013 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album, will play concerts in Alabama in May and Delaware in June before flying to Madrid, Spain, for a concert there in July.

The Bellingham, Washington, indie band will appear in North Carolina later this month, then tour Europe, Australia, and New Zealand before returning to the United States for more shows in late March.

Thirty-three-year-old Ty Dolla $ign, born Tyrone Griffith, is a well-known collaborator in R&B. He is scheduled to appear in concert at the Governors Ball Music Festival in late May/early June on Randalls Island in New York City.

The Country Music Association’s 2018 Entertainer of the Year, Keith Urban rang in the new year as part of Nashville’s annual Music City Midnight celebrations. His 2019 tour includes nine performances in Australia, homeland of his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, as well as dates in Europe and six U.S. states.

The boy band that became a teen sensation in the 1990s launches its 93-show tour with an appearance at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas in early February. The Florida-based group takes its act to Europe in the spring and returns to North America in July for the final portion of the tour that concludes at Newark’s Prudential Center in September.

A busy year for the metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, starts in June. The group known for wearing masks and jumpsuits opens its 20-show tour in Europe and wraps up with a hometown appearance at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in August. The band is scheduled to release an album in 2019.

The two-time Grammy Award winning rocker will play three separate venues in Minnesota beginning Jan. 26 before heading to his native Canada for two shows, and then he will perform at Hyde Park in London in July following a brief stint in California.

Singer-songwriter Khalid has booked dates so far this year at Coachella in Indio, California, and Hangout Fest in Gulf Shores Beach, Alabama.

Country music star Luke Bryan, with a trove of platinum albums and singles, starts his 2019 tour in Nashville, Tennessee. He will then take his show to California, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Mexico.

The two-time Grammy Award-winner, rapper, singer, and sometime actor Cornell Haynes, Jr., — otherwise known as Nelly — will perform this year in both the U.S. and Australia.

Zedd, the stage name of Anton Zaslavski, is one of the most sought-after electronic dance music producers and remixers in music. He was scheduled to start his 2019 tour in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 8, and has tour dates in the Cayman Islands in February and the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida in March.

Rapper Rick Ross, whose job resume includes a stint as a prison guard in the mid-1990s, begins his 2019 tour in Las Vegas on Jan. 9. He will later appear in Lexington, Kentucky, and Reading, Pennsylvania. The Mississippi native is due to release an album, “Port of Miami 2: Born to Kill,” later this year.

Philly rapper Meek Mill brings his Motivation tour to Miami Beach, Florida, in February and then goes to Texas, Arizona, California, and Colorado in February and March, before he plays Chicago and the Northeast later in March.

Most of country singer Carrie Underwood’s 2019 tour is in America’s heartland. The seven-time Grammy Award winner opens her tour at Tacoma, Washington, in May and Hershey, Pennsylvania, in June, then heads to Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.

This folky Colorado rock band last toured in 2017 in support of their album “Cleopatra.” This year, fans will get the chance to see them live at Hangout Fest in Gulf Shores Beach, Alabama, in May.

The Canadian performer, who has won five Grammy Awards, is a Las Vegas mainstay. She is scheduled to perform the first of her 34-show schedule on Jan. 8 at Caesars Palace.

The alt-metal band formed in 1994 in Glendale, California, is set to perform at the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio and Chicago Open Air, both in May.

The Brooklyn, New York-based pop/rock and dance singer, songwriter is scheduled to perform at Hangout Fest in Alabama in May.

The heavy metal pioneer’s “No More Tours 2” farewell tour takes him to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand before he lands in the United States in Atlanta, Georgia, in late May and ends his U.S. tour in Los Angeles on July 29.

Country star Blake Shelton, who is also a coach on the television show “The Voice,” starts his “Friends & Heroes” tour at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Jan. 9. The Grammy Award-nominated performer will visit 15 states during his tour that ends in June.

The quintessential American group, whose most recent album is “The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,” opens its 2019 tour in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in late March. Then the band will tour the United Kingdom, beginning in June.

The rapper who eschews bling is scheduled to perform in New Orleans in February; Louisville, Kentucky in May; and Dover, Delaware, in June.

The Los Angeles, California-based singer-songwriter, known for his genre-blurring, experimental style, starts his 2019 concert tour in at the Hollywood Palladium on Jan. 13, then goes east for dates in Miami and Atlanta in May.

Hawaiian-born acoustic rocker Jack Johnson will appear at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on Jan. 12 with a lineup that includes such performers as George Strait, Willie Nelson, and Sheryl Crow. Then Johnson goes to Australia to perform at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in April.

Rapper, producer, actor, and three-time Grammy Award winner Ludacris will perform at the State Farm Arena in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia on Jan. 31.

2 Chainz, the stage name of hip-hop artist Tauheed Epps, is scheduled to perform in Las Vegas on Jan. 26.

The durable and enduring southern rockers start their 21-show tour with Randy Bachman on March 2 in Ottawa, Canada, following a set of shows on the Southern Rock Cruise in early January.

Actor, singer-songwriter Trey Songz has released seven studio albums. The artist from Petersburg, Virginia, is scheduled to perform at Kent, Washington, on Feb. 14.

These San Francisco-based rockers will tour this summer with the Goo Goo Dolls and “blue-eyed soul singer” Allen Stone. Performances crisscross the U.S.

Bublé, a prolific Grammy Award-winning singer from Canada, has sold about 30 million records worldwide. He is set to launch his 85-show tour on Feb. 13 in Tampa, Florida, and will conclude his 2019 tour in Munich, Germany on Nov. 10.

This L.A. band, which had a Hot 100 hit last year with their cover of Toto’s “Africa,” has announced the March 1 release of “The Black Album.” Post-release, they embark on an extensive U.S. and European tour with the Pixies.

Singer-songwriter Justin Vernon’s group Bon Iver includes an appearance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest as part of their late spring and summer tour this year, but most of the concerts are in Western Europe.

The ageless, or aging, rockers are playing all 18 of their shows in 2019 at the Park MGM in Las Vegas, starting April 6.

Dance music group Major Lazer has a number of sure-to-be-raucous shows lined up for 2019. Major Lazer member Diplo also revealed in a September interview with Complex magazine that 2019 would see the release of the group’s long-awaited final release.

Rapper G-Eazy has only one scheduled show in 2019. He’ll be performing in his hometown of Oakland, California, on Jan. 26.

Despite finding a successful career in movies, Ice Cube still makes time for his rap fans. The legendary rapper will be performing in Salt Lake City with Too $hort, Ying Yang Twins, and more this February.

The Piano Man will appear at his home away from home, Madison Square Garden, seven times this year. The July show would mark the 112th time Joel has performed at “the world’s most famous arena.”

Rapper Tyga, an acronym for Thank You God Always, is due to perform in Los Angeles on Jan. 12, and in two shows in Australia later in January.

Edgy pop singer and animal rights activist Pink has an ambitious concert schedule on the books for this year, with dates across America and all over Europe, plus an October stop in Rio de Janeiro. Though her most recent album, “Beautiful Trama,” was released in the fall of 2017, she toured in support of it last year and considers this year’s circuit a continuation of that tour.

Panic! At the Disco’s Pray for the Wicked tour begins in Buffalo, New York, on Jan. 10, and the band plans to tour the United States until early March. Then the rockers go to Europe later in March and end their tour in Dover, Delaware, at the Firefly Music Festival in June.

American DJ duo The Chainsmokers have just seven shows scheduled, following the release of their second album “Sick Boy” in December 2018. Included in the dates is a performance at the Winter X Games in Aspen.

The 72-year-old Cher is still going strong, heading out on the road this January to continue her “Here We Go Again” tour. This past September, Cher released her 26th studio album “Dancing Queen” as a solo artist.

Although Kelly Clarkson’s most recent album, “Meaning of Life,” was released in October 2017, she is just this year beginning her tour in support of it. Each of Clarkson’s 28 scheduled concerts will take place in the U.S.

The former No Doubt frontwoman has 30 concerts scheduled for 2019 — all of which will be taking place at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The dates are part of Stefani’s “Just a Girl: Las Vegas” residency.

Billboard called this Ohio duo’s most recent recording, “Trench,” released last fall, “arguably 2018’s most anticipated rock album.” This year, the group undertakes a major international tour, including 22 U.S. dates as well as concerts around Europe, from Ukraine to Ireland, and in South America, Mexico, and Canada.

This genial elder statesman of rock (he turned 76 last June) shows no signs of stopping. His 2019 tour schedule, running from March through July, takes him from Buenos Aires to San Diego to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

While Enrique Iglesias has five concerts scheduled for 2019, only one will take place in the U.S. The singer will be performing as a part of Calibash Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena on January 26.

Party rapper Flo Rida — a native, appropriately enough, of Florida — was one of the most successful artists of the 2000s but hasn’t been much heard from lately. This year, so far, he plans to perform at Kaaboo Cayman in the Cayman Islands in February and the Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in April.

Rapper A$AP Rocky will be performing across the U.S. and Canada as a part of his “Injured Generation Tour” this winter. He’ll also take part in a number of music festivals following the tour.

In addition to joining Grateful Dead alumni and other musicians on a 19-concert Dead & Company summer tour this year, singer and guitarist John Mayer will also be playing in New Zealand in March and in Snowmass Village, Colorado, this coming August.

Canadian singer Shawn Mendes will be playing a series of European tour dates before making his way to the U.S. in early summer. His most recent album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last June.

With longtime lead guitarist (and former Stevie Nicks boyfriend) Lindsey Buckingham recently kicked out of this ‘60s-era rock band, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House will replace him. Fleetwood Mac embarks on a five-month tour of the U.S., Canada, and Europe on Jan. 31.

Migos are currently slated to play four shows just over one year after the release of their chart-topping album “Culture II.” Unfortunately for fans outside of the Southeast, three of the four shows are located in Atlanta. The fourth will take place in Las Vegas.

Fresh off the release of their recent album “Delta,” British folk rockers Mumford & Sons are in the middle of a world tour. Their first U.S. concert on the tour will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, on Feb. 27.

English rockers Muse have plans to play across the U.S. and Canada this year before heading back overseas. The trio released their eighth studio album, “Simulation Theory,” this past November.

Grammy-winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist John Legend released his first Christmas album in October. In support of the release, he toured briefly, wrapping up the tour on Dec. 30 last year. He is scheduled to appear at “Aretha! A Grammy Celebration,” with Kelly Clarkson, Common, Celine Dion, and others on Jan. 13.

The first 2019 tour stop for Dave Grohl’s prolific post-Nirvana rock band is Atlanta in early February, followed by two dates in New Orleans and one each in Rockingham, North Carolina, and Columbus, Ohio, before the group takes off for a 10-city European jaunt.

Mariah Carey is currently slated to play a string of dates at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The singer will continue to play live through 2019 in support of her recent “Caution” album, which peaked at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart this past November.

Rapper Travis Scott will be playing shows throughout the country on his 2019 “Astroworld: Wish You Were Here” tour. The tour is in support of his recently released third album, “Astroworld.”

These Tennessee-born purveyors of Dixie-flavored rock — three brothers and a cousin — will headline this year’s SandJam music festival in April in Panama City Beach, Florida, along with Third Eye Blind, Cold War Kids, The Revivalists, and other rockers.

Sir Elton John is not letting his 71 years stop him from pursuing his scheduled 120 upcoming concerts. The shows are a part of John’s three-year farewell tour.

Heavy metal legends Metallica will be causing extensive headbanging as they tour throughout the U.S. this year. Although it’s been over two years since the release of their last album, “Hardwired… to Self-Destruct,” the band has plenty of back catalog to keep fans happy.

This celebrated 56-year-old rock band just keeps on going. Guitarist Keith Richards (himself 75 years old, as is Mick Jagger) has hinted that a new Stones album might be forthcoming this year. In the meantime, the band embarks on its 15-date “No Filter” tour of the U.S. in April — their first full schedule of performances since 2015’s “Zip Code” tour.

This 18-year-old rock band out of Las Vegas has only one performance on the books for 2019, at the iHeartRadio ALTer EGO show in Southern California on Jan. 19. In contrast, they played 37 dates in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and the U.K. in 2017-18 in support of their last album, “Wonderful Wonderful.”

Martha Stewart collaborator Snoop Dogg has announced that he hopes to become a Canadian citizen, which may be why four of his 11 announced concert dates for this year are north of the border.

Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey (born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) launches a short tour with two dates in New Orleans in March before moving on to perform in Ireland, Sweden, and Spain. Del Rey has announced the impending release of her sixth album later this year, titled “Norman F—–g Rockwell.”

Their halftime performance at the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 7 bombed, so it might be just as well that this popular alt-rock band thus far has a limited live concerts on schedule for this year, including a date in Florence, Italy, in June and one in Rio de Janeiro in October.

Despite having released only two studio albums in his short career, Post Malone is one of the most popular rappers working today. Malone will play two sets at the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest before heading off to perform a number of international concerts.

The success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the recent biopic of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury — which just won Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture (Rami Malek) — will no doubt help sell even more tickets than usual for this band’s summertime tour of the U.S. and Canada. Onetime “American Idol” winner Adam Lambert is now Queen’s lead singer.

The chart-topping rapper also known as Weezy starts off a thus-far abbreviated 2019 touring schedule with an appearance at ESPN’s X-Games in Aspen late this month.

Justin Timberlake will continue to promote his 2018 release “Man of the Woods” this year. The album, which combines R&B and Americana influences, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last February.

Multiple 2019 Grammy Award nominee Cardi B, who promises a new album this year, launches a tour in Atlanta in early February, appearing with sometime collaborator Bruno Mars (No. 2).

After spending some time in Hollywood making and promoting her recent film “A Star is Born,” Lady Gaga is returning to playing live music. The 29 shows she currently has scheduled are apart of “Enigma,” the singer’s new Las Vegas concert residency.

The eclectic singer behind the singles “24K Magic” and “That’s What I Like” will be playing three shows this year as of now. Fans will have to travel to Atlanta, Georgia, to the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest 2019 to see him.

Pop sensation Ariana Grande will be putting in time on road with 72 scheduled tour dates. The singer plans to release a new album, “Thank U, Next,” this year, which will include her recent No. 1 single of the same name.