Beyoncé will visit cities around Europe for a series of live dates as part of her first world tour in seven years.
The pop superstar, 41, will take her latest album Renaissance on the road, starting on 10 May in Stockholm before visiting stadiums in Europe and the UK in spring and summer.
Her last tour was the mammoth Formation World Tour in 2016 which was announced following her guest appearance at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.
Her upcoming tour is in support of her seventh studio album of the same name, which was released last year and incorporated house music and dancefloor-focused Afrobeats.
It was a critical and commercial success, topping the charts in Ireland, the UK and the US.
Ticket sales commenced for UK dates this morning, with O2 customers getting access to a special pre-sale event from 10am. Some customers took to social media to report problems with its app and website
We apologise to anyone experiencing difficulties trying to get Beyoncé tickets through Priority. Tickets are selling and we're seeing huge demand. We're doing everything we can behind the scenes to help keep the app running smoothly.
— O2 (@O2) February 2, 2023
Those who did manage to purchase tickets reported prices ranging from £56 to £199, with VIP "on stage" seats ranging from £1,950 to £2,390.
There will be further pre-sales on Friday and Monday, with general tickets for Beyoncé's five UK stadium shows going on sale on Tuesday.
The tour begins in Sweden on 10 May and then heads to Cardiff's Principality Stadium a week later.
She will then visit Edinburgh's Murrayfield on 20 May, Sunderland's Stadium of Light on 23 May and London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 29 and 30 May.
Other European dates include Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, Lyon, Marseille, Cologne, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Warsaw.
No Irish date has been announced.
From July, Beyoncè will embark on the North American leg of the tour, starting in Toronto, Canada on 8 July, with stops in Philadelphia, Louisville, Chicago, New Jersey, Boston, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Houston and many more, before closing out the tour in New Orleans on September 27.
Beyoncé recently performed her first headline concert since 2018 at a private hotel launch event in Dubai.
The singer was joined by 11-year-old daughter Blue Ivy during the event at Atlantis The Royal last month.
She will go head-to-head with Adele at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after they were both nominated in the album of the year category for Renaissance and 30 respectively.
They last competed for the prize in 2017 when it went to Adele.
Source: Press Association
