The Renaissance World Tour is the ongoing ninth concert tour by American singer Beyoncé. It was announced on February 1, 2023, in support of her seventh studio album, Renaissance (2022). The concert run began on May 10, 2023, at Friends Arena, in Stockholm, Sweden. It is her first solo tour since The Formation World Tour in 2016.

The concert is around two and a half hours long and is split into six acts, with Beyoncé performing the tracks of Renaissance in order, interspersed with songs from across her discography. The show received critical acclaim, with particular praise for the production value and Beyoncé’s vocal performance.

The tour was teased on October 23, 2022, when Beyoncé auctioned a ticket for an unspecified show. It was sold for $50,000 in a charity auction at the Wearable Art Gala to support the WACO Theatre. It included two tickets to the concert, first-class airfare, a three-night hotel stay, and a personal backstage tour led by Beyoncé’s mother.

In March 2023, Business leaders in western Sydney began advocating for Accor Stadium to take priority over Allianz Stadium for a Beyoncé concert in New South Wales, due to Accor having twice the audience capacity to accommodate her ticket demand. The possibility of Allianz Stadium securing a Renaissance World Tour concert has chiefly provoked the New South Wales government to end a 57-year ban on holding more than four concerts per year at the stadium. The ban could be lifted as soon as October 2023 to allow the venue to host Beyoncé in 2024. The Premier of New South Wales said that this could bring local businesses “an additional $1.3 billion.” The concert cap has existed since 1965 due to noise complaints from nearby residents, but now the government is pushing to increase it to 20 concerts per year.

In April 2023, Beyoncé rented Europe’s largest indoor stadium, Paris La Défense Arena, in Paris, France, to rehearse for the tour. Khirye Tyler and Dammo Farmer are credited as the tour’s music directors, with Damien Smith as head of the music production. Producer Amorphous assisted with the tour’s musical arrangements. Composer Emily Bear is the featured pianist for the tour.

Journalist José Norberto Flesch reported in May 2023 that Beyoncé would tour Brazil between March and April 2024.

On February 1, 2023, Beyoncé announced the tour via her Instagram account.

On July 12, 2023, Beyoncé uploaded a video to YouTube displaying clips from the first leg of the tour.

Alongside the announcement of the tour, it was also announced that a public on-sale for the North American leg would initially not happen, with all initial ticket sales for the leg using Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system. In addition, all the cities in the North American leg of the tour would be split into three different registration groups that would all have different registration periods and on-sale times.

Jay Peters of The Verge noted that this spreading out of demand appeared to be an attempt by Ticketmaster to prevent an incident identical to the Ticketmaster–Taylor Swift fiasco that had occurred less than three months earlier, in which Ticketmaster crashed during the Verified Fan presale of the Eras Tour. Peters questioned how effective the strategy would be since people could sign up for each of the registration groups instead of just one. In light of the mismanagement of Swift’s concert ticket sales, and the U.S. Senate hearing it sparked, the Senate Judiciary Committee tweeted from their official Twitter account, ‘We’re watching, @Ticketmaster,’ in reference to the Renaissance World Tour.

In light of this, Ticketmaster has implemented new policies to try and combat difficulty for concertgoers and to “create a less crowded ticket shopping experience for fans”. Registration does not guarantee a ticket. Instead, a “lottery-style process” affects who is placed on the waitlist and who is given a unique access code after registering as a Verified Fan. Tickets bought in European markets also cannot be resold on Ticketmaster for more than their original price.

The staging consists of two separate stages connected by a broad ramp: the A stage with a circle shaped cavity in the middle of a giant, flat screen; while the B stage is subdivided in a circumferenced structure surrounding the so-called VIP section “Club Renaissance”, with an extension of the ramp acting as the radius of the layout. It also features monumental sculptures and metallic tanks, mannequin-horses, robotic arms, pyrotechnics and ultraviolet technology. Es Devlin Studio and Stufish Entertainment Architects were in charge of the stage design along with Beyoncé and her creative team, Parkwood. The design process took around 18 months.