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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Brings the “10 Years of Artist” Celebration to UBS Arena for Two Sold-Out Nights
Ten years after a mixtape called “Artist” introduced him, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is celebrating the anniversary in the biggest rooms of his career. His “10 Years of Artist” run plays two sold-out nights at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, tonight, October 29, and tomorrow, October 30, the centerpiece of a year-long victory lap for the Bronx rapper.
The show takes its name from his 2016 debut mixtape “Artist,” the project that carried “Still Think About You” and “My Shit” and set everything in motion. A Boogie signed with Atlantic Records later that same year and released his debut album, “The Bigger Artist,” in 2017. Its lead single “Drowning” eventually earned a diamond RIAA certification, and his 2018 follow-up “Hoodie SZN” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 behind “Look Back at It” and “Swervin’.”
The catalog he is celebrating has been appreciating in the meantime. Late last year a wave of his classics earned new RIAA certifications, with “Look Back At It” climbing to seven-times platinum and “Jungle” and “Still Think About You” reaching five-times platinum, while his single “Part of Me,” built around Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together,” returned him to the Hot 100. Albums like “Artist 2.0” and “Me vs. Myself” kept his streak of top 10 debuts alive into this decade, and 2024’s “Better Off Alone” marked his fifth studio album.
The anniversary run has been building all year: it began with an instantly sold-out Boogie Bash at Radio City Music Hall, and he marked the new chapter with the “Before Artistry” EP earlier in 2026. Support across the fall dates includes DaBaby, G Herbo, Moneybagg Yo, Cash Cobain, Yung Miami and others on select nights.
After UBS Arena, the tour continues to Boston’s Agganis Arena on November 6 and 7, Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center on November 13 and 14, and Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on November 28, before wrapping the year in Orlando on December 5, Minneapolis on December 12 and Hartford on December 19. For an artist who named himself after a debut mixtape, the anniversary math checks out: a decade in, the Artist era is filling arenas.
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Don Toliver has his first No. 1. “Solar Eclipse,” his collaboration with Drake, opened at the top of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts dated October 17, 2026, giving the Houston singer his first leader on both lists. The song also entered the Hot 100 at No. 5, Toliver’s first top 10 on that chart as a lead artist, powered by 15.1 million U.S. streams in its opening week.
The record reached listeners in stages: it first appeared in Drake’s “FOMO” film before its October 2 streaming release on “HABIBTI (FOMO),” with the standalone video following on October 6. Built around Ella Langley’s country hit “Choosin’ Texas,” reworked into a Houston-nightlife setting, the song pairs Drake’s chorus with Toliver’s Auto-Tuned verse and a nod to his home in Fort Bend County, Texas. Toliver also appears on “Cold Shoulder,” a second track from the same expanded edition.
The chart milestone arrived in the same stretch as fresh hardware. The RIAA issued a new round of certifications for Toliver dated October 8, 2026, including an award for his 2021 album “Life of a Don,” released through Cactus Jack and Atlantic. His fifth album, “Octane,” which came out in January 2026 through Cactus Jack, Donnway & Co and Atlantic, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, his first solo chart-topping album.
The album behind it all keeps compounding. “Octane” has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, and all 17 of its tracks landed simultaneously on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart, making Toliver just the sixth artist in history to place 17 or more songs on that chart in a single week. Its singles “E85” and “Body” rank among the biggest streaming hip-hop songs of 2026, and Toliver took an unusually hands-on role in making the record, executive-producing the album himself rather than simply choosing from beats sent his way.
Now the run moves overseas. The second leg of Toliver’s Octane world tour, billed as NITROUS, plays Prague’s O2 Arena on October 30 before continuing to Frankfurt on October 31 and Berlin on November 2, and it reaches London’s O2 on November 23. Between a Drake-assisted No. 1, new RIAA plaques and an arena leg across Europe, Toliver’s “Octane” era is still accelerating.
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