Boy Meets World Tour

Overview

Boy Meets World was Drake's first dedicated international cycle — an arena tour built around More Life, the playlist project that leaned hardest into UK grime, Afrobeats, and dancehall influences. It opened in Amsterdam in January 2017 and ran across UK, European, Australian, and eventually South African dates, totaling 58 confirmed shows. The London O2 residency (seven nights across the tour's life) was the centerpiece: each night drew on Drake's deep UK fanbase and surfaced 'KMT,' 'No Long Talk,' 'Skepta Interlude,' and 'Get It Together,' with Skepta and Giggs making in-person appearances at various O2 dates. The setlist as a whole drew heavily from More Life, Views, and IYRTITL, with band-led arrangements warming up the colder mid-decade Drake sound. Staging featured an elevated catwalk over a star-shaped projection floor and a giant prop sphere that mirrored More Life's globe iconography. The South African leg in early 2018 was framed by local press as Drake's first proper African shows, and the tour overall is credited with cementing his standing in the UK and Europe at the exact moment Afrobeats and grime were crossing over to American mainstream.

Legs & Routing

• Europe / UK

  Jan 21 – Apr 11, 2017
  • • European arena leg

  Openers: Roy Woods · DVSN

  Notable venues

  • · The O2 Arena, London (multi-night)
  • · Manchester Arena
  • · Accor Arena (Bercy), Paris
  • · Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin

• Australia / Oceania

  Nov 4 – Dec 8, 2017
  • • Australian / NZ arena leg

  Openers: Roy Woods

• South Africa

  Jan 27 – Feb 3, 2018
  • • Drake's first-ever South African dates

Notable Moments

• London O2 — multi-night residency with Skepta and Giggs guest appearances
• Manchester Arena — show staged just months before the May 2017 bombing at the same venue
• Johannesburg & Cape Town — Drake's first-ever African headline dates

Sources

Pitchfork, Billboard, Pollstar