Justin Timberlake will embark on his Forget Tomorrow world tour in April and will pass through the Los Angeles area in May for a stop on the global tour.
The 10-time Grammy Award winner, who released his first solo song since 2018 on Thursday, will hit the road in conjunction with his upcoming album, “Everything I Thought It Was.” The RCA Records album will be released on March 15 and is the sixth studio album from the “SexyBack” and “Can't Stop the Feeling” hitmaker.
Timberlake, 42, made the official tour announcement Thursday, the same day he released “Selfish,” during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” deliberately “forgetting” to announce the 22-city trip. for a while with the presenter. who is his old friend.
“Oh yeah, I'm going on tour,” Timberlake joked.
The tour kicks off April 29 in Vancouver and heads south to Seattle on May 2 before stopping at the SAP Center in San Jose on May 6. Timberlake will play the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 10 and then return to California. for a May 14 show at the Pechanga Arena San Diego and a May 17 show at the Kia Forum in Inglewood. After that, he heads to Phoenix and then east. Barring an extension, the tour will conclude the U.S. leg at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. Additional dates including stops in Europe and the United Kingdom will be announced soon, concert producer Live Nation said in a statement Friday.
“Fans can expect to hear songs from her upcoming new album 'Everything I Thought It Was', her latest single 'Selfish' which is out now and everyone's favorite hits,” Live Nation said. The tour is Timberlake's first in five years. He finished his 13-month Man of the Woods tour in April 2019.
Tickets go on sale through Timberlake's fan club on Monday and pre-sales from Citi and Verizon begin on January 30. General sale begins February 2.
The former 'NSync frontman and “Trolls” star told Fallon that he worked four years on “Everything I Thought It Was” and wrote “almost 100 songs” before narrowing the track list to 18. He worked on the album during the pandemic and the arrival of his second son, Phineas, with his wife Jessica Biel. Unlike his previous music, Timberlake said he worked on the album in periods he described as “writing camps” with various songwriters. Earlier this week, he told Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe that “it's my best work.”
Fallon offered his own “phenomenal” review of the upcoming album: “This is perfectly done. Everything you've done, the layers upon layers, the different tempos. It's fun. It's danceable. It's a ballad. There are surprises there. It's good.”
And Timberlake told the host that “I can't wait to play it.” The musician gave fans an early listen to “Selfish” during a hometown show in Memphis, Tennessee, last weekend and played a classroom instrument version (and a medley of his hits) with Fallon and the Roots on Thursday's episode.
Before heading out on tour, the “Rock Your Body” and “My Love” singer will perform a free show at Irving Plaza in New York City on January 31. In his part with Fallon, he said they're still putting together the set list for that show, so it's unclear how much of his new music will appear.
“The Mickey Mouse Club” alum’s return to the spotlight comes after he kept a relatively low profile last year, particularly amid explosive revelations about his relationship with Britney Spears in the singer’s memoir, “The “Woman in Me.” However, the musician has stood out twice since the book's release in October: for the premiere of the animated film “Trolls Band Together” in November and to headline the splashy opening of Fontainebleau Las Vegas last month.
He and his former 'NSync bandmates also made headlines in September after they reunited, albeit briefly, to present an award to millennial superfan Taylor Swift during the MTV VMAs. (Timberlake and Fallon also had a lot to say about Swift's current boyfriend and her friend/golf buddy Travis Kelce during Thursday's “Tonight Show.”)
Timberlake, a four-time Emmy Award winner, will also return to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. The pop and R&B singer has hosted the sketch series five times and has frequently guest starred, but this weekend he will return to Studio 8H as a musical guest. The episode will be hosted by “Madame Web” star Dakota Johnson, who co-starred with Timberlake in the 2010 film “The Social Network.”
