Minnesota Scores First Stop On Major Pop Arena Tour

If you're looking to fill up your summer concert calendar, there’s a fun show coming to Minnesota in August that you might want to check out.

This Grammy-nominated global pop star has been to Minnesota before, but this will be his first headlining arena show in the state. It follows a huge year on the music charts since his last stop.

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Minnesota Gets the First Look at New Tour

This fall, St. Paul will be the first stop of Benson Boone’s highly anticipated "American Heart Arena Tour," which will travel across North America with 30 total shows.

The tour kicks off at Xcel Energy Center on Friday, August 22 at 8 PM. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 9 at 10 AM. A few presales are also available this week — you can find details about them here.

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Boone’s tour will support his new album, American Heart, which is set to drop on June 20. He recently debuted the album’s second single, Mystical Magical, during a performance at Coachella.

From Minnesota's Fine Line to Global Stardom

The last time Benson Boone was in Minnesota was in 2023, playing a small show at the Fine Line in Minneapolis. Since then, he released Beautiful Things, which became the most-streamed song in the world in 2024, with over 4 billion streams and counting.

Boone’s journey to launching a major tour has been far from typical. After wowing the judges on American Idol, he voluntarily dropped out, afraid of becoming just another Idol star and wanted to travel his own road.

Instead, he began posting music on TikTok, eventually signing a record deal. Now, with two studio albums and a major headlining tour under his belt, it’s safe to say things worked out pretty well for him.