Carter Faith is having the kind of career whiplash most young artists only dream about. Not long ago, she was quietly panicking about how to cover her rent, and now she is staring down a summer of stadium dates with Post Malone and Jelly Roll. The jump from scraping together stage props to joining one of the biggest tours of 2026 is not just a feel good story, it is a snapshot of how fast things can move when talent finally meets the right spotlight.
Her rise also says a lot about where country and pop are headed. Faith is stepping into a touring ecosystem built around genre blending, viral word of mouth and fans who want to see themselves in the artists onstage. The fact that she is so open about money worries and Michael’s craft runs makes this moment feel less like a fairy tale and more like a very modern grind paying off.
From rent stress to stadium lights
Before the tour announcement, Faith was not living some glossy, untouchable version of the Nashville dream. She has said that just a few months ago she was stressing about how she was going to “pay my rent,” a blunt reminder that even artists with momentum can be one slow month away from real financial pressure. That anxiety was not abstract, it was tied to the cost of keeping a roof over her head while she tried to turn songs into a sustainable career, a tension she later described while talking about her path to touring with Play and Malone.
On social media, she filled in the picture with almost painfully specific detail. Faith wrote that “a couple months ago” she was at Michael’s buying lace and fake birds to build her own stage props, worried because it was almost rent day and she was spending what little she had on materials instead of bills. That post, shared on her official page, captured the DIY reality of her life before the big call, and it is the same feed where she later told fans that tickets for her next chapter would go on sale Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. local time, tying that scrappy memory directly to the moment she joined a major tour lineup on Facebook.
The call to join Post Malone and Jelly Roll
The turning point came when Faith was tapped to open for Post Malone and Jelly Roll on the 2026 leg of their joint run. She revealed on a Monday in Feb that she would be joining Post Malone and Jelly Roll, a pairing that has already proven it can pack massive venues across the country. That announcement instantly reframed her year, shifting her from club stages and self funded visuals to a slot in front of tens of thousands of fans who bought tickets to see two of the most talked about crossover stars in popular music, a leap she underscored when she shared the news highlighted as a NEED TO KNOW update for fans who had been following her grind and NEED.
Her addition fits neatly into the way this tour has been framed from the start. Jelly Roll is set to Extend his Big run of shows with Post Malone, turning what was already a blockbuster pairing into an even larger Extend Big Tour with Post Malone. Slotting Faith in as the opener gives the shows a fresh voice and a narrative hook, the young songwriter who was worried about rent now warming up the crowd for two artists who built their own reputations on honesty about struggle and survival.
The BIG ASS Stadium Tour, explained
The run Faith is joining is not just any set of dates, it is the BIG ASS Stadium Tour, a sprawling stadium trek that has been rolled out in multiple phases. Official tour materials spell it out clearly when they answer the question of Who is opening for Post Malone and Jelly Roll on the 2026 tour, naming Carter Faith as the opening act on all BIG ASS Stadium Tour shows and positioning her as a key part of the experience for the tour’s diverse audience. That means she is not just dropping in for a few nights, she is baked into the identity of the entire BIG ASS Stadium Tour.
The 2026 leg stretches across major markets and festival stages. Dates include a stop in Wildwood, N.J. at the Barefoot Country Music Festival and a show in East Hartford, Conn at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, with some appearances marked as festival sets without Jelly Roll. Those details, laid out in the latest tour schedule, show how the Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2 is threading together traditional stadium nights and big outdoor events, giving Faith a chance to test her songs in front of both hardcore fans and casual festival crowds in places like Wildwood and East Hartford, Conn at Pratt.
Mississippi, Michael’s and the meaning of scale
One of the clearest examples of how far Faith’s world has expanded is the Mississippi stop on the schedule. Post Malone and Jelly Roll are set to sing in Oxford, Mississippi as part of the 2026 stadium run, with local coverage already walking fans through When to buy tickets and how to secure seats for the show. For Faith, that means stepping onto a stage in a college town that knows how to fill a football stadium, in front of a crowd that bought tickets because Post Malone and Jelly Roll are coming back on the road, a very different scene from the nights when she was hoping a few dozen people would show up to hear her play and Mississippi.
That scale shift is even starker when you put it next to the Michael’s anecdote she shared directly with fans. On her own page, Faith reminded followers that she had recently been buying lace and fake birds at the craft store to build her own stage props, a tiny, intimate investment compared with the production budgets that power a stadium tour. She tied that memory to the same Feb 6 ticket on sale time, effectively saying: remember when I was hot gluing my own set pieces, now here we are, get ready at 10 a.m. local. It is a rare moment where an artist lets fans see the exact receipts for the glow up, and it is preserved in her Carter Faith Official feed.
Why her story hits so hard right now
Part of why Faith’s rent confession landed so strongly is that it mirrors the financial reality for a lot of young creatives. She was not shy about saying she had been “stressing” over having to “pay my rent” just months before the tour news, and that kind of candor cuts through the usual polished rollout language. It also fits with the ethos of the artists she is joining, since both Post Malone and Jelly Roll have built careers on talking plainly about money, addiction and mental health, a shared honesty that makes Faith’s leap from anxiety to opportunity feel like a natural extension of their Faith narrative.
Her rise is also happening against a backdrop of cities and scenes that have shaped modern music. The tour will thread through major hubs and smaller markets, from festival grounds to college towns, echoing the way places like Nashville and Los Angeles have long served as launchpads for artists chasing a break. Those creative centers, captured in everything from the energy of downtown Nashville to the sprawl of Los Angeles, are the kinds of places where an artist can go from worrying about rent to fielding calls about stadium tours in what feels like a single season.
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