Ariana Grande announces first tour for seven years

Ariana Grande is to go on her first tour in seven years next summer, with five dates in London the only shows so far scheduled outside North America.

The pop star's The Eternal Sunshine Tour is named after her latest album, which came out in March 2024.

Since then, she has focused on acting, earning an Oscar nomination for her role as Glinda in Wicked, with the sequel Wicked: For Good due for release this November.

The tour will begin in Oakland, California, on 6 June 2026 and will conclude with five nights at London's O2 arena on 15, 16, 19, 20 and 23 August.

Pre-sale for the UK tickets will begin on 16 September, followed by the general sale on 18 September.

The tour will see her play her first full live shows since 2019's Sweetener World Tour.

She has been devoting much of her time to Hollywood in recent years - with a role in the fourth Meet the Parents film also in the pipeline - but in July she assured fans she was "working on a plan to sing for you all next year".

"Very silly of you all to assume that just because I have my hands full with many things that I plan to abandon singing & music...!!!" she wrote on Instagram.

"It is and has always been my lifeline. There will need to be room made for all of it.

"It may not look exactly like it did before but I much prefer how it looks in my head. I am having fun. I feel grateful and excited and inspired."

The tour will stop for four nights in Los Angeles and another four in Brooklyn, with other dates in Austin, Sunrise (near Fort Lauderdale), Atlanta, Boston, Montreal and Chicago.

It is currently not scheduled to visit any other UK or European cities.

In 2017, the Manchester leg of her Dangerous Woman Tour was targeted by a suicide bomber, killing 22 people.

She has returned to the city since - for a benefit concert two weeks later, and a headline slot at Manchester Pride in 2019.