20 May 2024
When Justin Timberlake announced his 2024 “Forget Tomorrow World Tour” — his first global concert tour in six years — it looked like he’d also forgotten the Twin Cities.
No longer: He expanded his previously announced fall tour schedule and will now be returning to the Xcel Energy Center on Oct. 31.
Tickets for the St. Paul show go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, at JustinTimberlake.com via Ticketmaster. Those who are Citi cardholders or Verizon customers will be able to purchase tickets early, between 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, and 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 22.
Ticket prices for the St. Paul show were not announced. Prices for a Chicago show a few days earlier, which was part of Timberlake’s initial tour schedule, appear to start at $130.
The tour is in support of Timberlake’s recent sixth album, “Everything I Thought It Was,” which was released in March. In total, the tour includes more than 85 performances in 55 cities in North America and Europe, and over 1 million tickets have been sold so far. The concert, across two stages, consists of a 29-song “medley-style” setlist.
His previous album, “Man of the Woods,” came out in 2018, in advance of a two-night Xcel Energy Center tour stop that our critic Ross Raihala called “a fast-paced, high-energy show” that nonetheless “screams unchecked excess.” Originally scheduled to perform one night at the X, he added a second night after the first sold out in a week.
Timberlake was in town earlier in 2018, too, for a halftime performance at the Super Bowl, which was held at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. In addition to courting controversy by teasing — and eventually scrapping — the idea of performing alongside a hologram of Prince, JT also spent time in St. Paul eating oysters at Meritage and stopping by the Midway Target.
Timberlake, who’s 43 and from Memphis, got his start on TV shows including “Star Search” and “Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club,” then became the frontman of the boy band ‘N Sync. As a solo act since the early 2000s, he has released hits including “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” “Mirrors,” “Suit and Tie,” “SexyBack,” “Rock Your Body” and “Cry Me a River.”
The “Forget Tomorrow” tour marks Timberlake’s fifth show at the X: He previously performed there in 2003, 2007, 2014 and 2018.
One more local angle for the road: Since 2012, Timberlake has been married to actress Jessica Biel, an Ely, Minn., native.
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