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After announcing his latest (and possibly final) tour for his album The Fall-Off earlier this week, fans can now shop J. Cole tickets online. Spanning 50-plus tour dates worldwide, the headlining arena run will cross the globe, visiting more than 50 cities across 15 countries, making stops through New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney and Johannesburg. If you want to secure concert tickets to the The Fall-Off tour at a venue near you, keep reading on for our guide on buying affordable tickets online.

Where to Buy Tickets to J. Cole’s The Fall-Off Tour, At a Glance:

Whether or not he retires, this will be Cole’s first global tour in nearly a decade. Fans have already shown their hype levels for the show when almost 250,000 fans queued up on Ticketmaster to get first dibs at presale access. His seventh studio album also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which he’s previously done with The Off-Season (2021), KOD (2018), 4 Your Eyez Only (2016), 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014), Born Sinner (2013), and Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011).

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J. Cole The Fall Off 2026 Tour Dates

July 11: Charlotte, N.C. (Spectrum Center)
July 14: Miami (Kaseya Center)
July 15: Tampa, Fla. (Benchmark International Arena)
July 17: Atlanta (State Farm Arena)
July 20: Philadelphia (Xfinity Mobile Arena)
July 23: Baltimore (CFG Bank Arena)
July 25: Montreal (Bell Centre)
July 27: Toronto (Scotiabank Arena)
July 31: Brooklyn, N.Y. (Barclays Center)
Aug. 4: New York (Madison Square Garden)
Aug. 5: Queens, N.Y. (UBS Arena)
Aug. 7: Boston (TD Garden)
Aug. 11: Chicago (United Center)
Aug. 15: Cleveland (Rocket Arena)
Aug. 16: Detroit (Little Caesars Arena)
Aug. 18: Minneapolis (Target Center)
Aug. 19: Kansas City, Mo. (T-Mobile Center)
Aug. 21: Denver (Ball Arena)
Aug. 24: Vancouver, British Columbia (Rogers Arena)
Aug. 25: Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena)
Aug. 27: Sacramento, Calif. (Golden 1 Center)
Aug. 29: Oakland, Calif. (Oakland Arena)
Sept. 1: Los Angeles (Crypto.com Arena)
Sept. 3: Inglewood, Calif. (Intuit Dome)
Sept. 6: Las Vegas (T-Mobile Arena)
Sept. 9: San Diego (Viejas Arena)
Sept. 10: Phoenix (Mortgage Matchup Center)
Sept. 13: San Antonio (Frost Bank Center)
Sept. 14: Austin, Texas (Moody Center)
Sept. 16: Houston (Toyota Center)
Sept. 19: Dallas (American Airlines Center)
Sept. 23: Fayetteville, N.C. (Crown Coliseum)

Oct. 7: Berlin (Uber Arena)
Oct. 9: Zurich, Switzerland (AG Hallenstadion)
Oct. 12: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Ziggo Dome)
Oct. 15: Cologne, Germany (LANXESS Arena)
Oct. 17: Antwerp, Belgium (AFAS Dome)
Oct. 19: London (The O2)
Oct. 20: London (The O2)
Oct. 22: Dublin, Ireland (3Arena)
Oct. 25: Birmingham, England (Utilita Arena)
Oct. 26: Glasgow, Scotland (OVO Hydro)
Oct. 28: Manchester, England (Co-op Live)
Oct. 31: Nottingham, England (Motorpoint Arena)

Nov. 5: Paris (Accor Arena)
Nov. 8: Hamburg, Germany (Barclays Arena)
Nov. 9: Copenhagen, Denmark (Royal Arena)
Nov. 11: Stockholm, Sweden (Avicii Arena)
Nov. 12: Oslo, Norway (Unity Arena)

Nov. 25: Brisbane, Australia (Brisbane Entertainment Centre)
Nov. 28: Melbourne, Australia (Rod Laver Arena)
Dec. 1: Sydney, Australia (Qudos Bank Arena)
Dec. 5: Auckland, New Zealand (Spark Arena)
Dec. 12: Johannesburg, South Africa (FNB Stadium)

We would definitely turn our red chairs around for two surprise karaoke singers who popped up at New York’s Baby Grand LES on Thursday night: Kelly Clarkson and John Legend.

The two pop superstars — who return as coaches alongside Adam Levine on The Voice: Battle of Champions starting Monday — stopped by the NYC karaoke bar along with comedian and social celeb Druski for some impromptu performances, and Billboard was on the scene.

Druski kicked things off with Journey’s sing-along staple “Don’t Stop Believin’,” asking for a shot at the. beginning and having it delivered by the last chorus. Next up was Legend, who told the crowd “I only rap when I do karaoke” before tackling Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” Finally, Clarkson did what she does best — singing other people’s songs as well as and often even better than the originals — by covering Gloria Gaynor’s karaoke classic “I Will Survive.”

Billboard even got to make a request: When Clarkson asked for some good karaoke songs and we nominated “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the trio performed Bonnie Tyler’s four-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit from 1983. Finally, the crew banded together for Clarkson’s 2005 Hot 100 No. 2 hit “Since U Been Gone” for a shout-along finish.

Next week, you can catch Clarkson, Legend and Levine on The Voice: Battle of Champions, which finds the coaches inviting back some of their favorite winners over the past 28 seasons of the NBC reality singing competition to see who will reign supreme. The season premiere is on Monday at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.

Above, you can watch an interview with this season’s coaches, where they talk about Clarkson’s triumphant return to The Voice and why Jordan Smith — who has found success on Billboard‘s Christian charts since winning season 9 — is going to be tough to beat.

Camila Cabello is using her platform to raise awareness for her home country of Cuba.

In a Friday (Feb. 20) post on Instagram, the Fifth Harmony alum shared photos of herself as a young girl living in the Caribbean nation alongside present-day pictures of Cuban citizens protesting conditions under the current government. “There is so much going on here at home and so much I can say about the heartbreaking things the immigrant community is experiencing here in the US,” she wrote. “I also feel a personal responsibility to speak about what’s happening in Cuba, I still have family on the island that we speak to and send medicine, food and clothes to.”

“It has been 67 years of a failing dictatorship and an oppressive regime,” Cabello continued. “The Cuban people are suffering in an echo chamber where no one can hear them because to speak is to risk your life. Many people are starving, looking for food in trash heaps, and the only way to survive is having relatives ship you boxes of medicine because not even the hospitals have medicine.”

The pop singer went on to say that sometimes the country’s electricity is “gone for so long that food spoils and water becomes scarce” and wrote that when some “people have peacefully protested, they have disappeared or been put behind bars, some as young as 13 years old.”

“This is a reality where a post online costs you your life,” she added. “The Cuban people have lived without dignity and without hope for too long. It’s no wonder so many Cubans have thrown themselves into shark infested waters, making boats out of tires and sticks and risking their lives for freedom.”

Cabello ended her post by encouraging fans to donate to Caritas Cuba, a Catholic humanitarian organization.

Cuba’s infrastructure changed forever in 1959, when Fidel Castro assumed power after the Cuban Revolution. He was succeeded by his brother, Raúl Castro, after which current president Miguel Díaz-Canel took office in 2018 — although Raúl still holds a seat in the National Assembly as well as the title of Army General.

Cabello’s ties to Cuba are deeply personal, as she lived there until she was about 7 years old, after which she moved with her mom to Miami.

“I didn’t speak any English,” she recalled to Grazia in 2021. “My parents brought me here for the same reason that a lot of migrant families immigrate, which is just there’s opportunities that aren’t available in the country where you live, or violence. My parents were looking for a better life for me.”

Lil Jon is grieving the unthinkable loss of his son, Nathan Smith. On Thursday (Feb. 19), the crunk pioneer penned a heartfelt tribute to his late child on social media after laying the 27-year-old to rest earlier this week.

“On the first day of Ramadan yesterday, We laid my only son to rest. In this holy month, I’m asking for extra du’a for him and for our family,” Lil Jon captioned a slideshow of Kodak moments shared with his son over the years. “Please pray that Allah grants him Jannah and grants us sabr, mercy, and strength. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.”

The “Get Low” rapper continued: “I love you, son. Life will never be the same without you. Allah, give me strength. Also thank you to everyone who has reached out with condolences, love, and prayers we appreciate you all. I will make sure the world knows your talent and never forgets your name. Nathan Murray Smith.”

Nathan Smith, who produced under the alias DJ Young Slade, was reported missing on Feb. 3 by the Milton Police Department in Georgia. Smith’s body was discovered by the Cherokee County Fire Department in a nearby pond on Feb. 6.

The Milton Police Department doesn’t suspect foul play, but an investigation remains ongoing. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office has yet to complete an autopsy.

Lil Jon confirmed his son’s passing in a statement to Billboard on Feb. 6, calling the NYU graduate the “kindest human being you would ever meet.”

“I am extremely heartbroken for the tragic loss of my son, Nathan Smith,” Lil Jon said. “His mother and I are devastated. He was immensely caring, thoughtful, polite, passionate, and warmhearted — he loved his family and the friends in his life to the fullest.”

He continued: “We loved Nathan with all of our hearts and are incredibly proud of him,” Lil Jon added. “He was loved and appreciated, and in our last times together we’re comforted in knowing that we expressed that very sentiment to him.”

Strange Maps, the latest work by the enigmatic horror-mystery author Uketsu, debuted at No. 1 on the inaugural all-genre list of the newly launched Billboard Japan Book Charts.

Known for his distinctive storytelling style blending prose with an abundance of visual elements including diagrams, drawings, and illustrations, Uketsu has drawn attention not only in Japan but around the world for creating books that even people who don’t usually read find immersive and accessible. The author’s “Strange” series has surpassed 8.5 million copies in worldwide circulation, while Strange Pictures has topped 2.1 million copies across 37 countries and regions, earning recognition as a “global sketch million-seller.”

The fourth entry in the series, Strange Maps, interweaves text with more than 200 maps, unfolding against unsettling settings such as abandoned seaside settlements and weathered tunnels. The book brings together everything cultivated throughout the previous “Strange” titles, resulting in what feels like a definitive culmination of the series.

With its ability to offer a new kind of reading experience even to those unaccustomed to books, Strange Maps has already surpassed 700,000 copies in circulation. Dubbed a “nationwide map mystery sensation,” the title debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Japan’s all-genre book chart, Japan Book Hot 100, which integrates print sales, e-books, and library lending. It has also held the top spot for four consecutive weeks on Billboard Japan Hot Bungei (Literary) Books.

Uketsu appeared in person — though fully masked as usual — at the Billboard Japan Book Charts awards ceremony held on Dec. 16. In this interview, conducted shortly after the event, the elusive author discusses the background behind Strange Maps and his thoughts on the “Strange” series. From Billboard Japan’s perspective as a music media outlet, the conversation also explores how Uketsu engages with music in daily life and how that listening influences his creative work.

What kind of music do you usually listen to?

I lived in the U.K. as a kid, and at the time, acts like the Spice Girls, Westlife, and Steps were hugely popular. I listened to them constantly in the car. Oasis and R. Kelly were popular too, but they felt a bit difficult to my younger ears and I didn’t really connect with them.

After returning to Japan, the first band I truly fell in love with was Southern All Stars. I also listened to them in the car, and I clearly remember thinking, “This really sinks in.” When I reached junior high and high school, I became strongly interested in understanding the roots of the music I loved, and tracing the influences behind (SAS frontman and principal songwriter) Keisuke Kuwata led me to rock and pop from the ’60s and ’70s. From there, I gradually moved back through the ’80s and ’90s as well.

Out of all the music you’ve heard, is there one song that left the strongest impression on you?

“Sayonara Jinrui” (Goodbye, Humanity) by Tama. I first heard only about ten seconds of it on TV, as part of an old clip, but even that was enough for me to think, “This is completely different from anything else.” It was nothing like Southern All Stars, and it really stuck with me.

At the time, most of the songs around me were love songs, and as a kid, I couldn’t really relate. They felt like music from a world of adults. Tama’s songs, on the other hand, used familiar imagery like the moon and stars, things that were close to a child’s world. In that sense, they felt more accessible than typical pop music and easy to grasp right away. So “Sayonara Jinrui” is still a very special song to me.

How do you discover new music?

I often look at Billboard’s global charts. I basically follow the charts. To be honest, there are songs that are hard for me to get into, but I listen to them with something close to a sense of obligation, like, “I need to listen to this properly.”

I’m an amateur, but I do release music through videos from time to time, so I want to keep track of what kinds of sounds are out there right now. It’s less about me making that kind of music myself and more about knowing what exists.

Your books are read by many people outside of Japan as well. What do you hope international readers will enjoy about your work?

I try to avoid writing stories that can only be understood if you have a deep knowledge of Japanese grammar or Japanese culture. I want to steer clear of works that require prior knowledge or an understanding of Japanese culture to be enjoyable, as much as possible.

So for readers overseas, I’d be happy if they could approach my books casually, without thinking, “This is Japanese literature.” If they naturally sense some Asian or Japanese qualities coming through in the process, that would be great. Above all, I believe the books are easy to read, so my strongest feeling is simply, if you have some time, please give them a try.

Regarding your new book, Strange Maps, it’s described as a culmination that brings together elements from the entire series. Where did you put in the most effort?

With Strange Houses, my first book, I always felt some regret. At the time, my skills weren’t quite there yet, and especially toward the ending, I wasn’t able to fully pull it together as a mystery. That feeling stayed with me for a long time. This time, writing my first full-length novel since Strange Houses, I wanted to incorporate motifs like abandoned settlements and deserted villages from that book while making sure the story worked properly as a mystery.

On top of that, I brought together everything I’d learned and wanted to try across the previous three books: the literary-fiction approach I developed in Strange Pictures, and the complex, layered foreshadowing I challenged myself with in Strange Houses 2: Eleven Floor Plans. I wrote it with the intention of consolidating everything. After spending nearly a year on its creation, I wanted this one to be the book I could confidently hand people who want to know what kind of writer Uketsu is and say, “Please start with this.”

Beyond debuting at No. 1 on Japan Book Hot 100, Strange Maps also spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Japan Hot Bungei Books list and has surpassed 700,000 copies in circulation as of December 2025. Why do you think it’s being read by such a wide range of people, from adults to young readers and children across Japan?

There was a fairly long gap since my previous book — I hadn’t released anything new for about two years, so the fact that people waited that long really surprised me and I’m grateful. That’s entirely thanks to the readers who stuck with me.

From my perspective, I simply wrote what I personally found interesting, just as I always do. It ended up being read by many people, but that’s the result of readers nurturing the work themselves.

Listening to you, it feels like you’re very conscious of what readers will enjoy, from an entertainment standpoint. Did you ever think, “This might sell better if I do it this way”?

As for that, there’s one thing I’ve always kept in mind. If I start thinking about writing for a large audience, at least in my case, it probably won’t work. So, I write under the premise that there’s only one reader and I’m writing just for that single person. While I’m writing, I imagine their reaction in my head, almost as if I’m asking, “What do you think?” or “What if this comes next?” Maybe it’s a form of self-dialogue, but the idea of pleasing one reader is something I’ve never wavered from.

I’d like to ask about your vision for the future. You mentioned at the press conference that you want to write whatever you feel like writing at the time. Are there any themes or genres you’re currently interested in?

Honestly, I don’t know if I could pull it off properly, but I’m somewhat interested in political dramas and financial stories. They’re fields I’ve never touched before, but there are so many compelling works in those genres, and I feel they might suit my tastes.

If I ever do attempt something like that, it would probably be quite different from what I’ve done so far. I don’t know how many years it might take, but I’d like to take that someday.

—This interview by Takanori Kuroda first appeared on Billboard Japan