R&B heavyweights Ne-Yo and Akon are officially joining forces for a highly anticipated global trek, confirming an April 2026 launch for their \u2018Night Like This\u2019 World Tour.<\/p>\n
The tour will celebrate two decades of chart-dominating hits, timeless collaborations, and genre-shaping records that defined 2000s R&B and pop. Fans can expect live renditions of classics that helped both artists build international fan bases, along with surprise mashups and potential guest appearances in select cities.<\/p>\n
Produced by Live Nation, the international, 57-city tour is slated to kick off in Dublin, Ireland, on April 24<\/strong> before trekking to major global markets like London, Toronto, Paris, Houston, and more ahead of wrapping up in Inglewood, California, on August 21<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The \u2018Night Like This\u2019 tour is shaping up to be a major cultural moment for longtime R&B fans, blending nostalgia with contemporary production as two global hitmakers reunite on stage for what promises to be an unforgettable 2026 run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" R&B heavyweights Ne-Yo and Akon are officially joining forces for a highly anticipated global trek, confirming an April 2026 launch for their \u2018Night Like This\u2019 World Tour. The tour will celebrate two decades of chart-dominating hits, timeless collaborations, and genre-shaping records that defined 2000s R&B and pop. Fans can expect live renditions of classics that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}