Nicki Minaj Announces Highly Anticipated Pink Friday 2 Tour, Stops at MSG and Barclays

Dubbed the Queen of Hip Hop, Nicki Minaj has announced her highly anticipated tour, showcasing her brand new album Pink Friday 2. She will stop at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, March 30, and Barclays Center on Thursday, April 4, 2024.

Nicki Minaj became “the first woman to score 100 Billboard Hot 100 Hits” with an astounding 133 total entries to date (the most among female hip-hop acts). These include three #1’s, over 70 Top 40 hits (also a record among female hip-hop acts), and 23 Top 10’s (another record among female hip-hop acts). As a songwriter, she also holds the record for the “Most Billboard Hot 100 Entries Among Women in the 2010s.”

Minaj has set the tone in music, fashion, and beauty for more than a decade. Her seminal song “Super Bass” surpassed one billion YouTube views, entering history alongside the likes of “Anaconda.” As such, she has emerged as “the first female rapper to cross the one billion mark with multiple solo tracks.” With nine videos receiving more than one billion views thus far, she has earned “the most videos with over one billion views for any female artist.”

Nicki Minaj at the Barbie premiere. Credit: Rodin Eckenroth.

Her supremacity can be traced back to her landmark debut Pink Friday in 2010, which sold 375,000 copies in its first week according to MRC Data. It made history by achieving “the largest sales week for a female hip-hop artist since Lauryn Hill in 1998.” In 2022 she released “Super Freaky Girl,” which impressively debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other accolades she acquired were “the female rapper with the most solo Top 10 albums in Billboard 200 history,” “the most-awarded rapper at the American Music Awards,” and “the first female rapper with over 30 billion Spotify streams across her catalog.”

In addition to music, Nicki Minaj has made numerous TV and film appearances, including as a judge on American Idol along with film roles in 2014’s The Other Woman, 2016’s Barbershop: The Next Cut, and voiceover for Ice Age: Continental Drift. She has landed high-profile deals with Fendi, Adidas, H&M, Diesel, Mercedes-Benz, Sprint, and Pepsi, released a nail polish collection with OPI, and was the face of MAC’s Viva Glam campaign. Not to mention, she is a co-owner of TIDAL, and her BEATS 1 QUEEN radio show stands out as “the highest-rated show in Apple Music history.”

You can listen to Pink Friday 2 here.

Tickets will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning on Tuesday, December 12. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, December 15 at 9 a.m.

PINK FRIDAY 2 WORLD TOUR DATES: 

Fri Mar 01 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena 

Sun Mar 03 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena 

Fri Mar 08 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena 

Sun Mar 10 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena 

Wed Mar 13 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center 

Fri Mar 15 – Inglewood, CA – Rolling Loud California*

Mon Mar 18 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center 

Wed Mar 20 – Atlanta, GA  – State Farm Arena

Fri Mar 22 –  Orlando, FL – Amway Center

Tue Mar 26 –  Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center

Thu Mar 28 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center

Fri Mar 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center 

Sat Mar 30 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 

Mon Apr 01 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena 

Tue Apr 02 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena 

Thu Apr 04 –  Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center 

Fri Apr 05 – Hartford, CT – XL Center 

Sun Apr 07 – Raleigh, NC – Dreamville Festival*

Wed Apr 10 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 

Fri Apr 12 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center 

Sat Apr 13 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum 

Wed Apr 17 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre 

Thu Apr 18 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena 

Sat Apr 20 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena 

Wed Apr 24 – Chicago, IL – United Center 

Sat Apr 27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center 

Thu May 02 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center

Thu May 09 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center 

Sat May 11 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

Sun May 12 – Austin, TX – Moody Center 

Sat May 25 – Manchester, UK – Co-Op Live 

Sun May 26 – Birmingham, UK – Resorts World Arena 

Tue May 28 – London, UK – The O2 

Sat Jun 01 – Paris, France – Accor Arena 

Sun Jun 02 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 

Wed Jun 05 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena

Fri Jun 07 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes Benz Arena

*Festival Performance

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