Mary J. Blige Unveils 2025 ‘The For My Fans Tour’ Dates

WEBWIRE – Monday, September 30, 2024

Featuring Special Guests NE-YO and Mario

Tickets Available Starting Tuesday, October 1 with Artist Presale

General Onsale Begins Friday, October 4 at 10AM Local on LiveNation.com

New Album Gratitude Releasing November 15

Grammy and Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated, Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige announced her 2025 The For My Fans Tour with special guests NE-YO and Mario. The tour comes on the heels of her new album Gratitude, releasing on November 15. The tour and album are a celebration of the love and gratitude that Mary has towards her life, family, friends, and her beloved fans.

Produced by Live Nation, the 27-city tour kicks off on January 30 at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC making stops across North America in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and more before wrapping up in Boston, MA at TD Garden on April 14.

I am so excited to kick off this tour. I have amazing fans and am so grateful for all of the love and support they have given me throughout the years, said Mary J. Blige. This tour is for them, and I cannot wait to be able to travel to all these cities and see everyone. I am in such a place of immense gratitude and peace at this moment, so also having the chance to release my new album Gratitude on November 15th ahead of this tour is really special to me.

Blige will release her new studio album, Gratitude, on Friday, November 15th, through her own Beautiful Life Productions and in partnership with 300 Entertainment. In August, she dropped the first single off the album, Breathing featuring Fabolous.

Ahead of both the album release and tour, Blige will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rest of the class of 2024 on October 19th in Cleveland.

VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets including reserved booths & tables, access to the VIP Lounge, exclusive VIP merch item, limited edition VIP poster & more. For more information, visit vipnation.com!

TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with artist presale beginning Tuesday, October 1. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, October 4 at 10AM local time at LiveNation.com.

PRESALE: Citi is the official card of The For My Fans Tour presale. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, October 2 at 10AM local time until Thursday, October 3 at 11:59PM local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

MARY J. BLIGE THE FOR MY FANS TOUR 2025 DATES:

Thu Jan 30 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum

Fri Jan 31 Raleigh, NC Lenovo Center

Mon Feb 03 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena

Thu Feb 06 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center

Sat Feb 08 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena

Tue Feb 11 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live

Fri Feb 14 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center

Tue Feb 18 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Fri Feb 21 Ft. Worth, TX Dickies Arena

Tue Feb 25 Denver, CO Ball Arena

Sat Mar 01 Los Angeles, CA Intuit Dome

Fri Mar 07 San Francisco, CA Chase Center

Sat Mar 08 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center

Wed Mar 12 St. Louis, MO Enterprise Center

Fri Mar 14 Chicago, IL United Center

Sun Mar 16 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center

Wed Mar 19 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena

Sat Mar 22 Buffalo, NY KeyBank Center

Mon Mar 24 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena

Wed Mar 26 Washington, DC Capital One Arena

Fri Mar 28 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall

Wed Apr 02 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena

Fri Apr 04 Baltimore, MD CFG Bank Arena

Sun Apr 06 Newark, NJ Prudential Center

Thu Apr 10 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

Fri Apr 11 Elmont, NY UBS Arena

Mon Apr 14 Boston, MA TD Garden

ABOUT MARY J. BLIGE

Iconic Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated artist, actress, producer, and entrepreneur Mary J. Blige is a figure of inspiration, transformation, and empowerment. With a track record of eight multi-platinum albums, nine Grammy Awards (37 nominations), an Emmy award, two Academy Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and a SAG nomination, Blige has cemented herself as a global superstar.

Influenced at an early age by the music of Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight, Blige brought her own gritty, urban-rooted stylefusing hip-hop, soul, and honest, frank lyricsto the forefront on her 1992 debut album Whats the 411? Blige continued to redefine R&B and began forging a unique niche for herself on her second album, 1994s My Life.

Each subsequent album she released reads like a chapter from an autobiography leading to February 2022, when Blige released Good Morning Gorgeous, which has since earned her six 2023 Grammy nominations including Album and Record of the Year. The album release led into a historic performance at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar. Her performance earned her a 2022 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).

On the acting side, Blige starred as Florence Jackson in the 2017 Netflix breakout film Mudbound, to which she received critical acclaim including two Academy Award nominations for Best Support Actress and Best Original Song. She became the first person ever to be nominated in an acting and song category for the same film. Among many other credits, Blige is currently starring in STARZs POWER BOOK II: GHOST. The fourth and final season is currently airing on Starz and continues to break records for the network.

On the producing side, Blige launched her production company, Blue Butterfly, and signed a first-look TV deal with Lionsgate. Blige also signed a first-look non-scripted deal and a second-look scripted deal with BET. In 2021, Blige worked with Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth and Amazon on her documentary Mary J. Bliges My Life celebrating the 25th anniversary of her famed album My Life, of which she was the focus and EP. Following her 2023 Lifetime films Real Love and Strength of a Woman, Blige has signed on to executive produce multiple new projects for Lifetime, beginning with Family Affair (working title) coming in 2025.

ABOUT NE-YO

NE-YO is a three-time GRAMMY Award-winning R&B hitmaker, iconic songwriter, actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist whose illustrious catalog has generated a combined total of 23 billion streams worldwide. 

His debut single, 2005s So Sick, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified quadruple-platinum. Since then, the Motown Records/Compound Entertainment recording artist has racked up a collection of global hits including Sexy Love, Closer, Because of You, Miss Independent, and Push Back [feat. Bebe Rexha and Stefflon Don].

Additionally, NE-YO has proven to be as powerful with his pen as he is in the recording studio and on stage, penning bangers like Rihannas Unfaithful, Russian Roulette, and Take a Bow, along with Beyoncs 2006 breakup anthem Irreplaceable and songs for such artists as Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Celine Dion and Mario among others. 

The multihyphenate has also leveraged his platform as a musician to pivot into acting. His film and television credits include NBCs World of Dance, Netflixs Dance Monsters, Empire, Stomp the Yard, Save the Last Dance, Battle: Los Angeles, George Lucas Red Tails, The Wiz Live!, Starz Step Up: High Water, Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding and The Sound of Christmas. He starred in the latest season of 50 Cents acclaimed drama series BMF on STARZ.

ABOUT MARIO

Mario is a GRAMMY-nominated, platinum-selling R&B singer, songwriter and hitmaker hailing from Baltimore, MD. A dominant 2000s run, which began after the church-bred singer was signed by Clive Davis to J Records during his teenage years, included Top 5 hit Just A Friend, and Let Me Love You, the generation-defining serenade that spent nine weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, earning the singer widespread acclaim. Marios subsequent album, Turning Point, generated a Best Contemporary R&B Album GRAMMY nomination as well as two Billboard Awards, and is part of a robust catalog that includes four debuts inside the Top 5 of Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, beginning with his gold-certified debut, Mario.

Marios hit-making prowess and status as a superior vocal performer led to a spot on Billboards Artist of the Decade list. His expanded entertainment profile includes an independent label, New Citizen, launched in 2016, and a slew of marquee acting appearances, including major roles in blockbuster films and shows Step Up, Freedom Writers, and Empire. Mario will make his film production debut this holiday season, when his New Citizen-produced Christmas film, Style Me For Christmas, airs on BET.

This December, Mario releases his sixth studio album as part of his new deal with Epic Records, marking his first solo LP since 2018. Glad You Came, is executive-produced largely by James Fauntleroy, who worked for over a year on the project in-studio with Mario.

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