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Missy Elliott has been in the business for a minute — long enough to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That’s why it’s so surprising that it’s only now that she’s hitting the road for her first ever headline tour.

Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience kicks off July 4 in Vancouver, and is currently scheduled to wrap up August 22 in Rosemont, Illinois. Joining her for the trek are her musical collaborators Ciara, Busta Rhymes and Timbaland.

In a statement, Missy says, “Fans have been asking me to tour forever but I wanted to wait until I felt the time was right because I knew if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family! So get ready to be taken OUT OF THIS WORLD with me, Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland! We can’t wait to share this experience with the fans!”

In a tour announcement video, Missy, Ciara and Busta, in intergalactic garb, land on a distant planet by mistake and Busta realizes he took a wrong turn at Mars. “This Spaceship will be Landing NEAR YOU,” reads the caption. “RUN 4 COVER!”

Presales start April 9 at 10 a.m. and run throughout the week. Tickets go on sale to the general public April 12 at 10 a.m. local time. For all details, visit Missy-Elliott.com. VIP packages will be available via vipnation.com.

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Did anyone think that Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter wouldn’t lasso a huge #1 debut on the Billboard chart?

Bey’s acclaimed new album debuts with sales of 407,000 units, giving her the biggest first-week sales of 2024 and the biggest first-week sales since Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 1.65 million units in November. Cowboy Carter is Bey’s biggest week since Lemonade debuted with 653,000 units in 2016.

Cowboy Carter also debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, American/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts. Beyoncé is now the first Black woman to top the Top Country Albums chart, which was established in 1964.

In addition, Cowboy Carter scores the biggest first-week sales for a country album since July when — who else? — Taylor Swift crashed in with 716,000 units of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).

Overall, Cowboy Carter is Beyoncé’s eighth #1 on the Billboard album chart, following Renaissance, Lemonade, her self-titled album, 4, I Am … Sasha Fierce, B’Day and Dangerously In Love. Now only Taylor, Barbra Streisand and Madonna have had more chart-topping albums than she has.

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