Jay-Z has added second shows in London and Los Angeles to his ‘Jay-Z 30’ anniversary run after demand, with Tottenham and SoFi dates in September and October
Jay-Z told GQ earlier this year that his 2026 would be “all offense,” and the schedule keeps proving him right. On Monday (July 27), Hov and Roc Nation announced second stadium shows in both London and Los Angeles as part of his ongoing Jay-Z 30 concert series, a run celebrating three decades since his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt. The additions come days after he sold out Yankee Stadium for three consecutive nights, and they answer the same thing that prompted them: demand that outstripped the dates already on sale.
The new shows slot in neatly beside the originals. Jay will now play London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on September 4 and September 5, his only UK dates of the year, before a previously scheduled stop at Paris’ Stade de France on September 10. In Los Angeles, the October 23 SoFi Stadium show becomes a back-to-back, with a second SoFi date added for October 24. Tickets for the new performances go to artist and cardmember pre-sale on Wednesday (July 29) at 10 a.m. local time, with general on-sale following Thursday (July 30). In the UK, Citi cardmembers plus O2 and Virgin Media customers get pre-sale access.
Yankee Stadium Set the Bar
The expansion makes sense in light of what just happened in the Bronx. Jay’s three-night Yankee Stadium residency earlier in July was among the most talked-about concert events of the year, and the guest lists read like a state-of-the-culture summit. Night one honored the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt, the album that peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 in 1996 and launched everything that followed. Night two celebrated 25 years of The Blueprint, the 2001 landmark that debuted at No. 1. The third, dubbed Extra Innings, was a looser victory lap that ran past 3 a.m. after a security breach by unticketed fans delayed the start.
The special guests were the story as much as the setlists. Across the run, Jay brought out Beyoncé, Blue Ivy Carter, Rihanna, Usher, Eminem, Pharrell Williams, Clipse, Slick Rick, Jeezy, The-Dream, Teyana Taylor, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Swizz Beatz, among others. It is not yet clear whether the London, Paris, and LA setlists will mirror the Yankee Stadium anniversary framing or chart their own course, but the bar for guest appearances has been set impossibly high.
Hov’s Busiest Year in Ages
The touring is one piece of a genuinely loaded year. Jay has stylized his name with the umlaut again, JAŸ-Z, the way it appeared on the original 1996 pressing of Reasonable Doubt, a small detail that signals how deliberately this whole campaign is built around that record. He headlined the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in May, backed by the Roots in a reprisal of a partnership that dates to his 2001 MTV Unplugged set, and reissued his 1996 single “Dead Presidents” on vinyl, cassette, and CD for the first time.
There is more coming beyond the stage. This fall, Jay sits down with Rick Rubin for Jay-Z in 8, an eight-part HBO documentary series Rubin is directing, built around long-form interviews about his music, lyrics, and creative process. For an artist who spent years making live appearances a rarity, treating each one as an event, 2026 has been a striking reversal, a sustained public victory lap from someone with little left to prove and, apparently, plenty left to say. The London show on September 4 carries one more grace note: it falls on Beyoncé’s birthday, which for the most famous couple in music is its own kind of statement.
