Young Thug's New Generation Tour: UK Date Next?

Last updated: 15 July 2026

Young Thug, the Atlanta rapper and founder of YSL Records, has confirmed The New Generation Tour: 19 dates across North America and 4 across Europe, in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Łódź and Paris. No UK date is confirmed as of 15 July 2026, and none has been officially announced or credibly reported anywhere, on any ticketing platform or in any trade press coverage of the tour. Below is what has been confirmed, what the UK picture looks like right now, and how his past UK shows fit in.

What has been announced so far?

The New Generation Tour is Young Thug's first headlining run in more than six years, and it covers 23 dates in total: 19 across North America and 4 across Europe. The North American leg opens on 1 September in Rogers, Arkansas, and runs through to 4 October in Inglewood, California, with NAV joining as special guest on those North American shows only. The European leg is a separate, shorter run of four dates:

The tour also carries a supporting roster of acts signed to Young Thug's own YSL Records label across the run, which makes it as much a label showcase as a solo headline tour. The line-up needs one clarification. NAV is confirmed for North America only, and Mariah the Scientist, who features on two tracks from Young Thug's 2025 album UY SCUTI, is not part of the touring line-up at all. Tickets for the announced dates move through the official on-sale channels listed on each date's own page; nothing about this page changes that, and there is no separate UK on-sale to look for, because there is no UK date to sell tickets for.

His last extended touring cycle ran alongside 2019's So Much Fun, which became his first number one album on the Billboard 200 that same summer, and this run is the first time since then that fans anywhere, UK included, have had a headline tour from him to track. That gap is part of why the UK question keeps coming up: demand has been building for years with nowhere for it to land, and a fresh tour announcement is the moment that kind of demand tends to surface publicly.

Is a UK date next?

No UK date has been added to The New Generation Tour, and there is no credible rumour of one either. Every announcement source for this run, cross-checked against dedicated UK ticketing search and general web search, lists the same four European cities and no fifth. This is a checked answer: the official tour announcement, the promoter's own press materials, and independent UK listing sites were checked directly, and none list one.

That absence stands out, because Young Thug does have a UK following and a UK touring history (more on that below), so a UK date is not an unreasonable thing for fans to expect eventually. But expecting one and having one confirmed are different things, and this page exists specifically to keep that distinction clear rather than let a search result or a forum post blur it. If a UK date were added to this tour, the most likely path is the same one the rest of the tour took: an announcement through Young Thug's and YSL Records' own social channels, picked up by promoters and trade press within a day or two, followed by an on-sale window through the tour's usual ticketing channels. Nothing in that pattern has happened for a UK show, at any point since the tour was first announced.

We will revisit and update this page the moment that changes, rather than leave it frozen at one date.

Has Young Thug played the UK before?

Yes, several times, even though nothing about The New Generation Tour currently touches the UK. He played his debut UK show in London in August 2015, and returned to London for a headline date at a different venue in July 2019. Between those two shows, he joined Drake's Boy Meets World arena tour as a support act in 2017, opening the tour in London before playing further dates across the UK and Ireland, including Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham and Dublin.

Those are three UK visits across three years, in front of audiences in six cities once Ireland is included, a bigger footprint than a lot of casual coverage gives him credit for. Each visit was also a different kind of show: a smaller-venue debut in 2015, a support slot on someone else's arena tour in 2017, and his own headline date in 2019. That progression is what you would expect from an artist building a UK following over time, rather than a one-off novelty booking. It also means any future UK date would not be a debut, but a return to markets where he has already sold tickets and played to sizeable arena and academy crowds. For the fuller story of those shows, including how each one came about, see our Young Thug tour history piece and his artist profile, both of which carry the complete picture rather than the summary version here.

The Quavo tour tease explained

A separate, older story keeps getting mixed up with The New Generation Tour, and it needs clearing up, because search results routinely surface both side by side without distinguishing them. Back in September 2025, Young Thug told streamer Adin Ross that he had a 2026 tour planned with Quavo joining as a guest, tied to the deluxe edition of his album UY SCUTI. That comment predates The New Generation Tour's own announcement by close to a year, and it was never formalised into a ticketed run of dates in the way The New Generation Tour has been.

Quavo does not appear anywhere on The New Generation Tour's confirmed line-up, across any of the announcement sources for this run. The two are different stories from different points in time: one is an artist's own comment on a livestream about a future plan, and the other is a fully announced, ticketed tour with a promoter, a support bill and a published date list. Treating them as the same thing is where a lot of the current confusion about "is Young Thug touring with Quavo" or "is there a UK date" seems to come from.

Where this leaves UK fans

For now, The New Generation Tour is a North American and European run only, and there is nothing to enquire about for a UK date because no UK date exists. That holds as of 15 July 2026, and it stays true until something changes. You can see the wider tour, including every confirmed date across both legs, on the New Generation Tour hub, and follow his broader catalogue, label and touring history on his artist profile. If a UK development is confirmed, the update lands here, not weeks later once the story has moved on elsewhere.