Fact Check: Despite viral posts claiming otherwise, Eminem, Jelly Roll, and Billie Eilish have NOT announced any joint tour titled “The Last Showdown”

 

Fact Check: Despite viral posts claiming otherwise, Eminem, Jelly Roll, and Billie Eilish have NOT announced any joint tour titled “The Last Showdown.”
The rumor started after a fan-made poster spread on social media — but no official sources or tour listings confirm such an event.

Fact Check: Eminem, Jelly Roll And Billie Eilish Did NOT Announce A Joint Tour Called ‘The Last Showdown’

Did Eminem, Jelly Roll & Billie Eilish announce a 2026 tour titled “The Last Showdown?” No, that’s not true: There is no proof that these artists announced this tour. There are no publicly available tickets or presale tickets on concert tickets websites. There is a new trend of AI generated posts about concerts that don’t actually exist, featuring huge names performing with each other.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) where it was published on the Facebook page of the account Honkeytonk Confessions on August 23, 2025. The caption read:

Eminem ft. Jelly Roll & Billie Eilish Announce 2026 Tour “The Last Showdown” — A Powerful Fusion Reviving Rap’s Spirit — Full List of Dates and Cities Revealed….Full article

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at Facebook.com/Honkeytonkconfessions.

The post on Facebook includes a link to an article (archived here) with details about a tour including cities and countries across the globe where the three would be playing together. However, there are no specific dates other than 2026 mentioned and no links to ticket sales on any site.

Lead Stories searched Ticketmaster.com (archived here) for “The Last Showdown” and found no matching concerts. A search on Stubhub.com, a ticket resale site, for Last Showdown did not return a single concert with that name or with those artists.Had the three musicians agreed to tour and made the announcement, this would have made the news. Lead Stories searched Google News’ index of thousands of news websites (archived here) and did not find any matching reports about the tour. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed no legitimate news reports of The Last Showdown tour.

The post appears to be following a new trend of AI generated posts making false announcements about music tours, as a search for “The Last Showdown Tour” on Facebook shows posts claiming there will be tours with the same name but a combination of different artists such as Led Zeppelin, Santana featuring Steven Tyler, Luke Bryan featuring John Foster and 50 Cent and Eminem. A similar fake claim purported to announce “One Last Ride” with big names in music like Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi together.

Lead Stories reached out to the music management companies of Eminem, Jelly Roll and Billie Eilish and will update the story when a response is received.