“My hope is that this will be a kind of quantum leap forward in the sense of what a concert can be,” U2 guitarist the Edge told Rolling Stone about their latest tour. U2 has expanded their U2:UV Achtung Baby Live Las Vegas residency with four additional dates at the newly-built Sphere venue. The final residency shows will take place on Feb. 23 and 24 and March 1 and 2, but there’s still time to get tickets online.
Sphere had been under construction for the past five years near the Venetian resort, with building costs reportedly topping $2 billion. Billing itself as the “world’s largest spherical structure,” Sphere is 516 feet wide, 366 feet tall, and can seat 17,600 people. The venue also includes the highest-resolution LED screen on Earth, 10,000 vibrating “immersive seats,” environmental effects like temperature control and cool breezes, and 164,000 speakers.
“We will be able to deliver the audio that we want people to hear without any interference from the acoustics of the building,” says the Edge. “It’s just an amazing playpen for us.”
Want to hear your favorite Achtung Baby track in real life? Here’s how you can still get U2 tickets for the remaining 2024 residency dates, and where you can find verified passes online (even if they sell out).
When Is the U2 Residency in Las Vegas?
The “Achtung Baby” residency launched on September 29, 2023 at the Sphere at the The Venetian in Las Vegas. Following the record-setting run, 11 more dates were announced due to overwhelming demand, and their run will now wrap up on March 2.
When Do U2 Achtung Baby Tickets Go On Sale?
General on-sale for U2’s Vegas residency final dates happened back in December via Ticketmaster. General-admission floor seats will be nontransferable for any amount of money over face value.
Your best bet now is to check resale sites like Vivid Seats and StubHub. Below are a few of the best places to find U2 tickers online for the remainder of the residency.
How to Get Tickets to the U2 Sphere Shows in Vegas
While Ticketmaster was where U2 tickets were first made available, several dates have since been sold out, and U2 tickets are now available on reseller sites like StubHub, Seatgeek and Vivid Seats.
All of these sites offer authentic, verified tickets (I.e. no illegal scalpers here) and you can either find U2 tickets online by price range, or by searching for seats on a seat map. Tickets are delivered digitally (over email) and the sites all offer a buyer’s guarantee verifying that you are purchasing legitimate U2 tickets online.
1. Find U2 Tickets on Vivid Seats
Vivid Seats currently has U2 tickets starting at around $315 for the remaining residency dates. As always, Vivid Seats guarantees ticket authenticity and fast delivery (either physically or digitally) before the show. Use promo code RS2024 to take $20 off your order at VividSeats.com. Also, if you’ve used Vivid Seats before, be sure to enroll in the rewards program.
2. Find U2 Tickets on StubHub
U2 ticket prices on StubHub are currently the same or slightly more expensive than those at Vivid Seats (most shows are starting in the $315-335 range). One draw with StubHub is their ticket refund policy, which promises a StubHub credit for 120% of the amount you paid if the event is canceled.
3. Find U2 Tickets on TicketNetwork
Another place to find U2 tickets is TicketNetwork, where we see U2 ticket prices starting at around $420. No matter which tour date or seat you choose, you can take $10 off your order at TicketNetwork with code TNTIX.
4. Find U2 Tickets on SeatGeek
We spotted plenty of U2 tickets on SeatGeek as of this writing, and the site is usually a solid bet for resale tickets to popular concerts and events. Use the SeatGeek promo code TAKE5 to get $5 off your ticket purchase. It’s not a huge discount but still a chance to get save on U2 tix.
U2 Vegas Residency Dates
Here are all the upcoming dates U2 will be performing for the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere Las Vegas concerts. *Dates in bold are newly-added shows.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
SATURDAY, MARCH 2
Drake attends a game between the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland Cavaliers
Earl Sweatshirt Is Right: ‘Don’t Worry’ Is a Great Drake Song
Even the staunchest Drake hater can probably name at least one song that does it for them. For better or worse, Aubrey Graham has spent nearly two decades giving voice to the millennial subconscious more skillfully than any mainstream musician not named Taylor Swift, soundtracking the fears, insecurities, and romantic delusions of a generation raised on reality-TV melodrama and the first wave of social media’s main-character ethos. It should come as no surprise, then, that Earl Sweatshirt, underground rap’s poet laureate, has singled out the deep Iceman cut “Don’t Worry,” singing the song karaoke-style to close out his recent live sets. The track is the purest distillation of Drake’s appeal since the Take Care era, and a quiet reminder of why it’s hard to imagine him going away any time soon.
In the clips, which first started circulating around late May, during Earl’s Home on the Range Tour with MIKE on the heels of their Surf Gang-produced project Pompeii // Utility, it’s the song’s final turn that has Earl & Co. the most hyped up. “I just wanna see that boy beg on the pavement,” Drake coos, the type of revenge fantasy he’s built a career out of conjuring. Drake goes on. “I just wanna see that boy struggle with the phone bill,” he sings, getting specific. “The light bill/That’s how I feel.”
It’s PhD-level pettiness with a weirdly relatable spin. One must know the more treacherous depths of being broke to pinpoint the humiliation of struggling with the phone bill, and here Drake is wishing such luck onto anyone “trippin’ with the gang.” Whereas his entire catalog is fueled by this kind of anonymous sense of betrayal, it hits harder here. You can feel the sting of 2024’s rap beef in the glee with which Drake sings his imagined get-back, landing on an infectious melody all while basically giving a speech you’d expect from the Joker. “I might just get that boy hit for entertainment,” he sings.
This is classic Drake, turning the darker inner thoughts most people would be ashamed to admit into something almost beautiful. He is, in a way, rap’s Lena Dunham, finding art on the other side of cringe.
More recently, clips of Earl singing the song at the end of different tour stops — an ongoing bit at this point — went viral thanks to the never-ending stan wars between Kendrick and Drake fans. Some, unable to deny Earl’s bona fides as a rapper, assumed the whole thing must be an act of trolling, while others saw it as proof that Drake “won” the beef. The third option, of course, is that it’s a really good song, the type Drake is especially skilled at making.
At the height of the beef, like any millennial amidst a friend-group falling-out, Drake appeared to be rewatching The Sopranos, posting pictures from the show to his Instagram Stories. (Iceman’s hit single “Janice STFU” samples Tony Soprano uttering the infamous phrase to his sister, Janice.) “Don’t Worry” has the Machiavellian feeling of a classic mobster flick, a resolve for vengeance at any cost. A desire to see your enemies suffer. Across an entire album, it’s a mood that can feel heavy, but you’ve got to admit, when it hits, it hits. And that’s why Drake remains a fixture within not just hip-hop, but pop culture at large. He reconstructs embarrassingly human impulses as irresistible melodies. “Don’t Worry” might very well become the sleeper hit from Iceman, as clips from Earl’s concerts have already started to boost the song’s presence across feeds.
As he often does, Earl Sweatshirt simply speaks the truth.