The Summer Sixteen Tour was a co-headlining concert tour by Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Future. It began on July 20, 2016 in Austin, Texas, and concluded with its final show in Toronto, Ontario, on October 8, 2016. With 60 performances across North America, the tour was produced by Apple Music to promote Drake's fourth studio album, Views (2016), Future's fourth studio album Evol (2016), as well as their collaborative mixtape, What a Time to Be Alive (2015). Guest appearances and support acts on the tour's various stops included 2 Chainz, ASAP Ferg, Bun B, Cam'Ron, DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, French Montana, Gucci Mane, Ice Cube, Kanye West, Kash Doll, Rihanna, T.I., Too Short, Ty Dolla $ign, Usher, and Young Thug, among others. The tour earned a gross total of $84.3 million off of 54 shows, making it the highest-grossing hip-hop tour of all time, until Drake broke this record with his own co-headlining Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour in 2018.
Background Drake and Future first collaborated in 2012 on the song "Tony Montana". In 2015, the two released a single called "Where Ya At", which later was included as part of Future's third studio album, DS2. Since then, other notable collaborations with the two include Drake's song "Grammys" (feat. Future) and "Jumpman" (2015). The duo also worked on a collaborative mixtape entitled What a Time to Be Alive, which was released on September 20, 2015. Throughout 2013 and 2014, during Drake's Would You Like a Tour?, Future made multiple guest appearances, often appearing to perform alongside him and/or serve as the opening act of the show. Rumours of a co-headlining tour from Drake and Future first circulated following the release of What a Time to Be Alive, leading Drake to post on Twitter that he was planning to embark on a tour with Future in the summer.
On April 25, 2016, the Summer Sixteen tour was announced by Drake, with Future as co-headliner. Later, on that same day, several dates were announced via Drake's website, with dvsn and Roy Woods all set to perform as opening artists.
Set list This set list is representative of the show on July 20, 2016 in Austin. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.
"Summer Sixteen" "Still Here" "Started from the Bottom" "9" ""U With Me?" "Feel No Ways" "Headlines" "Trophies" "HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right)" "0 to 100 / The Catch Up" / "6 God" / "Worst Behavior" / "We Made It" / "Blessings" / "All Me" / "No Lie" / "Versace"/ "Pop That" / "Over" / "I'm on One" / "Up All Night" / "Miss Me" / "Crew Love" "With You" "Child's Play" "Fire and Desire" "Come and See Me" "Faithful" (with dvsn) "Hotline Bling" "Hold On, We're Going Home" "The Motto" "Right Hand" "For Free" "My Way" (Fetty Wap cover) "Grammys" "Scholarships" "Love Me" "I'm the Plug" "Big Rings" "Jumpman" "Diamonds Dancing" "Work" "Take Care" / "Too Good" (verses) "Controlla" "One Dance" "Back to Back" "Pop Style" "Hype" "Know Yourself" "Energy" "Legend"
Tour dates + List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue Date City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance Revenue North AmericaBox score: July 20, 2016 AustinUnited States Frank Erwin Center Roy Wood$dvsn11,318 / 11,318$1,470,583 July 21, 2016 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,605 / 13,493 $1,563,490 July 23, 2016 Kansas City Sprint Center 12,983 / 13,364 $1,180,862 July 24, 2016 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 13,624 / 14,014 $1,346,114 July 26, 2016 ChicagoUnited Center27,037 / 30,294$3,214,405 July 27, 2016 July 31, 2016TorontoCanadaAir Canada Centre30,070 / 30,070$2,686,110 August 1, 2016 August 4, 2016 New York CityUnited StatesMadison Square Garden58,085 / 58,085$6,804,352 August 5, 2016 August 6, 2016 August 8, 2016 August 10, 2016 Boston TD Garden 13,490 / 13,951 $1,463,377 August 12, 2016 Buffalo First Niagara Center 13,547 / 13,965 $1,540,131 August 13, 2016 Columbus Nationwide Arena 13,986 / 14,417 $1,510,033 August 14, 2016 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 15,931 / 15,931 $1,410,223 August 16, 2016 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 14,891 / 15,674 $1,504,752 August 17, 2016 Pittsburgh Consol Energy Center 13,622 / 13,622 $1,351,855 August 19, 2016 Washington, D.C.Verizon Center27,663 / 28,584$3,259,446 August 20, 2016 August 21, 2016 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 13,402 / 13,402 $1,752,511 August 23, 2016 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 13,720 / 14,184 $1,304,350 August 25, 2016 AtlantaPhilips Arena28,864 / 28,864$3,106,599 August 26, 2016 August 27, 2016 Tampa Amalie Arena 13,337 / 13,337 $1,401,166 August 30, 2016 MiamiAmerican Airlines Arena26,608 / 27,806$3,282,545 August 31, 2016 September 2, 2016 New Orleans Smoothie King Center 13,241 / 14,073 $1,243,871 September 3, 2016 Houston Toyota Center24,507 / 24,507$3,352,284 September 4, 2016 September 6, 2016 Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Arena 12,084 / 12,542 $1,310,117 September 7, 2016 Los AngelesStaples Center40,155 / 40,227$4,809,979 September 9, 2016 September 10, 2016 September 11, 2016 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 15,142 / 15,142 $2,089,942 September 13, 2016 OaklandOracle Arena24,956 / 25,831$3,294,596 September 14, 2016 September 16, 2016 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 18,120 / 18,120 $1,748,350 September 17, 2016 VancouverCanadaRogers Arena rowspan="4" rowspan="4" September 18, 2016 September 20, 2016 Edmonton Rogers PlaceSeptember 21, 2016 September 24, 2016San Jose United StatesSAP Center25,817 / 26,591$3,099,176 September 25, 2016 September 27, 2016InglewoodThe Forum 42,316 / 42,316 $4,545,367 September 28, 2016 September 29, 2016 October 1, 2016DenverPepsi Center rowspan="4" rowspan="4" October 2, 2016 October 4, 2016 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena October 5, 2016 Chicago United Center October 7, 2016 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 15,731 / 15,731 $1,722,100 October 8, 2016 Toronto Air Canada Centre 15,485 / 15,485 $1,561,900TOTAL 634,662 / 647,265 (98%) $71,238,937
Cancelled shows + List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation Date City Country Venue Reason/Additional Info October 9, 2016 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre Drake's ankle injury October 11, 2016 Brooklyn United States Barclays Center October 12, 2016 October 13, 2016 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center October 15, 2016 Newark Prudential Center October 16, 2016
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