Justin Timberlake has announced that he will be going on a world tour!
The singer and actor revealed the news during his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon On thursday.
The host asked Timberlake, “Do you have anything to announce?” But the singer replied: “No, I have nothing to announce. We are advertising [the album].”
Fallon continued to press, saying, “No, no, no, no. How about something extra?… There might be something the audience wants to hear if you say the right thing. That people watching at home could go justintimberlake.com and get something if they wanted something. Is there anything you would like to announce?
“What is happening now?” Timberlake asked before Fallon jokingly showed him a note card. “Ah, that… I’m going on tour,” he said, as the audience began to scream.
The Forget Tomorrow World Tour is set to kick off on April 29th in Vancouver, Canada. He will make many other stops, including Seattle; Phoenix; Fort Worth, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Miami. Tickets go on sale on February 2nd.
After Fallon listed some of the dates, Timberlake joked, “Wow, that’s a lot of dates.”
The announcement came shortly after the singer revealed that he is releasing a new album, Everything I thought I was, on March 15, his first solo album released in over six years. He also surprised fans last Friday by releasing a new single, “Selfish.”
Timberlake also told Fallon on Thursday that he has been working on the album for four years and actually wrote 100 songs, but cut it down to 18 for Everything I thought I was.
“Making this album is different from any other… Different from making previous albums, because I was just going to take time and say this is what we did and this is what it is,” he said. But with this album, as he has two children he shares with wife Jessica Biel, he couldn’t be writing and in the studio consistently. “I was going back and forth. Two weeks of writing, coming back for a month, and just what we called writer camps where I would work with different songwriters, work with different producers, people I’ve worked with before, people I’ve never worked with before.”
