Eminem announced on Monday that he will embark on a final world tour beginning in September 2026, with 52 shows scheduled across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia through March 2027, after which the 54-year-old rapper said he will retire from touring but continue his work as a record label executive at Aftermath Entertainment. The announcement, made via a brief video posted simultaneously to his social media channels and the Aftermath website, confirms years of speculation about when the rapper born Marshall Mathers would step back from live performance and ends one of the most sustained and commercially successful touring careers in hip-hop history.

The tour, titled “The Final Show: The Eminem Farewell World Tour,” will visit 28 countries and 47 cities and is already generating extraordinary demand. Pre-sale tickets in North America sold out within minutes across all markets, with resale prices on secondary platforms reaching three to five times face value within hours of availability. Variety reported that the demand reflects both Eminem’s status as one of the best-selling music artists in history – with 220 million records sold globally, ranking him among the top five best-selling artists of all time – and the genuine finality of the announcement, which the tour’s promotional materials make clear is not a retirement in name only but a genuine conclusion to his performance career. The tour is produced by Live Nation in partnership with Eminem’s own Shady Films organization.

In the announcement video, Eminem acknowledged the physical toll of nearly three decades of live performance at his characteristically high-intensity level. “I’ve given everything I have to every show for 30 years,’ he said in the video. ‘My body is telling me it’s time to be home with my family. I want to go out while I can still do this the right way – give every fan who comes to these shows everything they came to see. Then I’m done.” The farewell announcement references his daughter Hailie Jade, who recently welcomed her first child, making Eminem a grandfather, and his longtime collaborator and Aftermath CEO Dr. Dre, whom he thanked in the video for ‘making all of this possible.’ Hollywood Reporter noted that the personal details in the retirement video are unusually candid for an artist who has carefully controlled his public image throughout his career.

Eminem’s career trajectory has been one of the most remarkable in popular music history. Discovering him in 1997, Dr. Dre signed the then-unknown Detroit rapper to Interscope Records and produced The Slim Shady LP in 1999, launching a career that would include multiple Diamond-certified albums, 15 Grammy Awards, the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘Lose Yourself’ from the 8 Mile soundtrack, and the distinction of being the best-selling artist of the 2000s across all genres. His most recent studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace), released in 2024, debuted at number one in 30 countries and was his 11th consecutive number-one album in the United States. Deadline reported that the tour setlist is expected to draw from all phases of his career and will feature several guest appearances, with no artists confirmed yet but significant speculation about appearances from Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and other Aftermath label artists.