Brandy and Monica Are Taking 'The Boy Is Mine' to Las Vegas

Twenty-eight years after "The Boy Is Mine" turned two teenage stars into a permanent pairing, Brandy and Monica are giving the song a home. The two R&B singers announced The Boy Is Mine Las Vegas Residency on Tuesday night's Grammy-themed episode of Dancing With the Stars, right after performing the duet on the show — ten dates at Resorts World Las Vegas, opening May 29, 2027, and closing July 17. It is the first Las Vegas residency for either singer.

The announcement lands exactly where the momentum pointed. Brandy and Monica spent last year on the road together on The Boy Is Mine Tour, a co-headlining arena run that sold out and did something the industry had spent decades assuming was impossible: it put the two of them on one stage, night after night, trading hits and deep cuts from catalogs that fans had treated as rival territory since the late 1990s. The tour wrapped in December 2025, and the pairing refused to cool off — a joint appearance at the St. Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival and a co-headlining set at the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture followed. A residency is the logical next room, and Las Vegas is the logical city for it.

The song underneath all of this needs no introduction, but its numbers still startle. "The Boy Is Mine," released in 1998, spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals. It was the biggest record of both singers' young careers, and it welded their names together permanently — a fact Monica, in Rolling Stone's telling, has come to appreciate rather than resist. The two have long since established themselves as a unit in the public mind; the residency simply builds the unit a stage it can return to.

Resorts World is a fitting address. The property's theatre has already carried residencies from Katy Perry, Janet Jackson, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan, which puts Brandy and Monica in the building's top tier from day one. The run is produced by the Black Promoters Collective, the company behind the arena tour — and notably, this is the Collective's first residency, a step its president, Shelby Joyner, framed to Variety as a bet on artists the company believes in and on the fans who showed up for the tour.

Monica's path to yes runs through Las Vegas itself. She told Billboard that the show that changed how she thought about the city was Gladys Knight's — a fellow alto, she noted, and one of the most genuine people she has crossed paths with in 30 years in the business. Seeing Knight in Vegas, she said, was probably the first time she thought she could see herself doing a residency eventually, because she loves being in one place. Rolling Stone adds the other half of the story: after the tour ended, the two kept talking about what came next, Brandy brought her the Vegas idea, and when Resorts World reached out on its own, Monica took it as confirmation — in her words, this is where they belong. She also told Variety the tour itself nearly stopped at one-and-done; after the first night, she understood it ran deeper, and she credits plain communication — keeping outside voices out of the partnership — for why it works.

The practical details are simple. Ten shows: May 29 and 30, June 2, 4 and 5, then July 9, 10, 14, 16 and 17, all at Resorts World Las Vegas. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, November 20 at 10 a.m. PT through AXS, with presales running earlier that week. For a pairing that spent a generation as a hypothetical — the tour fans demanded for decades before it existed — ten nights in one room, in the entertainment capital both singers keep circling back to, is less a booking than a settling-in. The boy, as ever, is theirs. Now so is the room.