Editor’s note: This story was first published on May 8, 2025. It has been updated ahead of his upcoming concerts at the Delta Center on Oct. 8, 9 and 11.
Benson Boone has been busy.
This year alone, his career highlights have included receiving a Grammy nomination for best new artist, making a dynamic debut at Coachella, releasing his second album, appearing as a guest artist on “Saturday Night Live” for the first time and going on a massive North American tour.
The singer, whose 2024 monster hit “Beautiful Things” has been streamed more than 2 billion times on Spotify, is clearly maintaining his momentum — and fans are matching the energy.
Due to high demand, Boone is closing out the North American leg of his tour by performing at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City three nights in a row — the only city where he’s playing three times.
And all three shows — Oct. 8, 9 and 11 — are sold out.
The extra love the singer is showing Salt Lake City is fitting, as Utah has played a meaningful part in his rapid rise to fame.
Benson Boone’s filmed-in-Utah music videos
The song that started it all for Boone is inseparable from Utah.
The music video for “Beautiful Things‚” which has over 800 million views on YouTube, was filmed in St. George, Utah, as the Deseret News previously reported. The red rock bluffs of southern Utah are on full display as Boone walks around and sings about his fear of losing the beautiful things that he’s got.
Boone also filmed the music video for the song “Mr. Electric Blue,” from his second album, in Utah, as the Deseret News reported.
The music video for the song — which the singer has said was inspired by his father — highlights just about every insult and criticism that has been hurled Boone’s way in his short career and transforms them all into a hilarious storyline.
“Is everything all right?” Boone says to his agent as he steps into Industry Plant Records wearing a T-shirt that says “One hit wonder.”
“Have you not been on the internet?” the agent responds. “Everything’s terrible, Benson! We put all of our money in Moonbeam ice cream and a backflip, and it’s gone absolutely horrible. We need something new, we need a new gimmick. Maybe good songwriting?”
“You know I can’t do that,” a deflated Boone says.
Boone’s agent then reveals that the singer owes the label $10 million — which he must come up with in a week.
Throughout the video, the singer takes on a series of odd jobs to try to come up with the money, including driving an ice cream truck that he rented from the Utah-based ice cream shop The Penguin Brothers, the Deseret News previously reported.
Does Benson Boone live in Utah?
Although he grew up in Washington state, a recent profile in Rolling Stone magazine notes that Boone now lives about 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City, in “a sharp-angled, industrial-gray luxury fortress with towering windows atop a cliff” that overlooks Utah Lake.
The singer’s family also reportedly lives in the St. George area, according to KSL.
Benson Boone concerts in Utah
Last year, when Boone launched a world tour in support of his debut album, “Fireworks & Rollerblades,” he experienced his first-ever arena show at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.
“Probably the most emotional day of my life. I’m still wondering if this show even happened. Our first arena,” Boone shared on Instagram following that show. “Thank you for crying with me, singing with me, laughing with me, feeling with me. I promise you this is just the start of it, and I ain’t slowin down till these tires are burned into the street.”
The Grammy-nominated artist has attended a few Utah Jazz games, rubbing shoulders with the Jazz Bear at the Delta Center.
Now, this fall, he will conclude his North American “American Heart” tour at that same venue.
It will be his first time performing at the Delta Center — and all three shows are sold out.
This tour has supported his sophomore album, “American Heart,” which he released this past summer.
“A lot of it is very Bruce Springsteen, Americana, like a little more of a retro vibe,” Boone previously told Rolling Stone. “It all started with me believing in the song ‘Beautiful Things.’ Now, I have a whole album just about ready to go — and I’ve never believed so much in a body of work.
“I think I’m getting to the point where I just want people to know that there’s more than just that song,” the singer continued. “I think I’m a little past that point. But of course I still love the song. I’m still proud of it. And I’ll be performing it for a while, so I hope that feeling sticks around.”
Benson Boone’s rise to fame
Boone’s rise to fame has been rapid — it was only around five years ago that he even discovered he could sing, as the Deseret News previously reported.
While in high school in Monroe, Washington, Boone’s friend asked him to play piano in their school’s battle of the bands. The teenager had grown up playing a little and loved listening to a wide range of artists — including Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel and Adele — but he didn’t really understand the scope of his musical abilities until he wound up filling in as the singer at the last minute after the original singer quit.
“We didn’t have a singer and my friend said I should sing and I was like, ‘Dude, I never sang before,’” Boone previously told the Everett Herald.
He pushed through his hesitation and decided to take the stage to sing — much to his parents’ surprise.
“My husband and I hadn’t heard him sing ever really,” Boone’s mother told the Everett Herald. “He told us he was going to do it and we were like, ‘Oh, OK, alright, this should be interesting.’
“When we went, our jaws dropped.”
Up until that point, Boone, who was a competitive diver and big on the outdoors, figured his life would go in that direction.
“I went out on stage and I started singing, and my voice kind of just came out of me. It’s just like I unlocked something I didn’t know I had,” he told MTV. “And I stopped, like, halfway through the first verse and just looked around, and I was so shocked that I had just sang. ... It was, like, the best feeling of my life.”
Not much later, in 2021, an 18-year-old Boone decided to try his luck on “American Idol.” But the teen — who “Idol” judge Katy Perry declared a potential winner — ended up forgoing the competition and also dropped out after a semester at BYU-Idaho to pursue music on his own terms.
With some videos on TikTok, Boone caught the attention of Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, who provided some mentorship and signed the young singer to his label, Night Street Records.
Boone’s fame has since skyrocketed, with energetic performances at the Grammys (not to mention a Grammy nomination for best new artist) and Coachella, two albums and a massive tour.
“Five years ago, I did not even know I could sing. My plan was to play a professional sport, or be an architect, or interior designer,” he told the pop culture site Notion in 2022. “So, if my younger self could see me now, they wouldn’t believe it. I would be so confused.”