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Lil Wayne announces his first-ever headlining show at Madison Square Garden on June 6. The performance coincides with the release of his latest album, Tha Carter VI.
For the first time, Lil Wayne will headline New York’s Madison Square Garden in a special performance on Friday, June 6. The show celebrates and coincides with the release of the rapper’s highly anticipated new album, Tha Carter VI.
Tha Carter VI is the follow-up to Wayne’s 2020 release, Funeral, and the latest installment in his Tha Carter series since 2018’s Tha Carter V.
Tickets will be available starting with artist presales beginning Wednesday, April 23. The general onsale will start Friday, April 25 at 10 AM local time on Live Nation’s website.
By 2020, Lil Wayne cemented his legacy as “one of the best-selling artists of all time,” with sales in excess of 100 million records worldwide; 25 million albums and 90 million digital tracks sold in the United States alone. In 2022, Wayne earned his first Diamond certification from the RIAA with his smash hit “Lollipop” featuring Static Major.
Among his accolades, Wayne has garnered 11 BET Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two MTV VMAs, and eight NAACP Image Awards. He also emerged as the “first male artist to surpass Elvis Presley with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100,” with a whopping 183 entries — the third-most of all time.
With a discography highlighted by five career-spanning No. 1 debuts, beginning with 2008’s Tha Carter III and its 2011 successor, Tha Carter IV, he released the latest version of the series in 2018. In addition to reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200, it also achieved the second-largest streaming week for an album in history. Every song on the album charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Wayne “the first artist to debut two songs in the top 5.”
Wayne owns and operates Young Money Entertainment. The company ignited the careers of two of the most successful artists: Drake and Nicki Minaj. A committed philanthropist, Wayne also founded The One Family Foundation.
