Drake announces 2024 OKC show: Here's who else is coming to Paycom Center next year

Brandy McDonnell, The Oklahoman

Grammy winner Drake announced Monday morning that he is bringing his 2024 U.S "It’s All A Blur Tour – Big As The What?" to Oklahoma City for a January concert at Paycom Center.

The multiplatinum-selling rapper is bringing along J. Cole, the Grammy-winning artist, producer and founder of the influential Dreamville Records, for the Jan. 25 OKC show.

Tickets to Drake's OKC concert go on sale at 11 a.m. Nov. 17 via Ticketmaster.

Those aren't the only 2024 Paycom Center tickets going on sale this week: Tickets will be on sale starting at 9 a.m. Nov. 17 for New York indie pop band AJR's May 4 show at the downtown OKC arena.

In this June 27, 2015 file photo, Drake performs on the main stage at Wireless festival in Finsbury Park, London.
In this June 27, 2015 file photo, Drake performs on the main stage at Wireless festival in Finsbury Park, London.

What bands and other touring acts are coming to OKC's Paycom Center in 2024?

Paycom Center staffers already have announced 16 touring events for 2024, including concerts featuring pop-rock star Olivia Rodrigo, new CMA Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson and Oklahomans Turnpike Troubadours and Zach Bryan, stand-up comedian Katt Williams and family-friendly attractions like Monster Jam and the Harlem Globetrotters.

Here's what is scheduled so far to come to OKC's Paycom Center in 2024:

What records did OKC's Paycom Center break in 2023?

This year, the Paycom Center is coming off a record-breaking 2022, when it hosted 37 concerts, the most concert events to ever play the facility in a year.

That smashed the arena's previous record of 29 concerts in a year, which was set in 2013.

A venue spokeswoman said Paycom Center hasn't hosted as many concerts in 2023 because of summer construction projects to install new scoreboards and seats in the arena.

By the end of the year, the venue will have hosted 52 touring events, including 29 concert events.

Also home to the OKC Thunder professional basketball team, the arena, which opened in 2002, still managed to set a couple of records for touring events this year:

  • In January, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle's sold-out stand-up show became what's believed to be the largest comedy show in the state, with nearly 17,000 tickets sold. That also landed the show on the list of the top 10 highest attended concert events in the arena's 21-year history.

  • In May, Paycom Center broke its record for largest Latin concert in venue history when Grupe Firme brought in more than 6,000 fans, becoming the best-selling and highest-grossing Latin music event for the arena to date.

  • The venue quickly broke that record for its biggest Latin concert again just a few weeks ago, when Luis Miguel drew just over 10,500 fans to Paycom Center.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will make its annual holiday stop at OKC's Paycom Center Dec. 7.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra will make its annual holiday stop at OKC's Paycom Center Dec. 7.

What touring events are still to come at OKC's Paycom Center in 2023?

From holiday favorites Trans-Siberian Orchestra to iconic comedian Adam Sandler, several touring acts are still due to make stops at OKC's Paycom Center in 2023:

  • Nov. 18-19: Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party

  • Nov. 24: Rod Wave "The Nostalgia Tour" with with special guests Ari Lennox, Toosii and Eelmatic

  • Dec. 2: Cody Johnson

  • Dec. 7: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

  • Dec. 9: Adam Sandler

  • Dec. 15-17: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey: "The Greatest Show on Earth"

  • Dec. 20: AEW (All Elite Wrestling) with Dynamite and Rampage

  • Dec. 28:Jeff Dunham

On Dec. 12, Oklahoma City voters will go to the polls to vote on a temporary one-cent sales tax to fund the construction of a new arena, expected to be built at a minimum cost of $900 million. The temporary tax would begin after the similar MAPS 4 penny tax ends in 2028 — so it is not expected to raise taxes — and last for six years

For more information on Paycom Center events, go to https://www.paycomcenter.com.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Drake and Cole tour and other 2024 shows coming to Paycom Center OKC

Advertisement