

Jackson enlisted designer Giuseppe Zanotti to create custom shoes for the tour. Jackson's forthcoming album was also made available for pre-order, along with vinyl copies of the album's lead single " No Sleeep." Pre-sale tickets were made available exclusively to American Express and Citibank cardholders prior to general admission tickets going on sale on June 22, 2015. Later in June 2015, the first 36 dates of the Unbreakable World Tour in North America were announced. She will release her forthcoming eleventh album in the fall of 2015 through her own record label, Rhythm Nation, distributed by BMG Rights Management. On May 15, 2015, Jackson announced a new album and world tour. On April 22, 2015, she tweeted, "Letting go doesn't mean you stop", after a fan created a mock Missing Persons poster of Jackson, which had begun circulating the internet, prompting Jackson to retweet it herself, adding to further speculation of a new album. After his declarations, Jackson herself responded to the rumor, neither confirming nor denying the works: "If there is a new project, you'll hear it from my lips", she tweeted. In August 2014, producer and engineer Ian Cross, who worked on her last three studio albums, confirmed to Barefoot Sound that he was working on Jackson's new album, stating they worked in recording studios in Qatar, Paris and Middle East. In May 2017, she announced the tour would resume beginning in September, renamed as the State of the World Tour.

However, in December 2015, Jackson announced that tour dates beginning in 2016 would be postponed and in April 2016 announced the summer dates would be rescheduled due to her pregnancy. When the tour was announced in June 2015, multiple legs were planned for North America, Asia and Europe. In addition to Live Nation and Rhythm Nation, the tour is also sponsored by Nederlander Concerts, Jam Productions, Another Planet Entertainment, Bamp and Tommy Meharey. It was in support of her eleventh studio album Unbreakable (2015). The Unbreakable World Tour was the seventh concert tour by American recording artist Janet Jackson.
