Ariana Grande Calls the Eternal Sunshine Tour Her “Last Hurrah” What She Said and What Comes Next
Ariana Grande’s “Last Hurrah”
- Final tour for now: Ariana Grande called the 2026 Eternal Sunshine Tour her “last hurrah” before stepping away from touring for a long time.
- Massive return: The 41-date run (June–September 2026) marks her first headline tour since 2019’s Sweetener World Tour.
- Career shift: Grande says her relationship with music is now “healed” after leaving Scooter Braun and is focusing more on film projects like Wicked.
- Record demand: Over 6 million fans entered presale, with sold-out multi-night arena runs and a 10-night London residency at The O2.
Ariana Grande has confirmed the Eternal Sunshine Tour will be her “last hurrah” for the foreseeable future a seven-year gap from her last headline run is about to get longer still. Grande made the statement in a November 18, 2025 appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast. The 41-date tour kicks off June 6, 2026, at Oakland Arena and closes September 1 at The O2 Arena in London, produced by Live Nation on Republic Records.
The admission reframes what fans already understood to be a rare event. Grande has not performed a headline show since her Sweetener World Tour wrapped in 2019 a run of nearly 100 shows that drew more than 1.3 million fans. Now she is calling this tour a gift she is giving herself, and her audience, before a long creative pivot away from pop touring.
Ariana Grande’s “Last Hurrah” Exactly What She Told Amy Poehler
Grande told Poehler she is treating the 2026 run as a conscious, joyful send-off not a farewell, but a long pause. “I do know that I’m very excited to do this small tour, but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long, long time,” she said on the November 18 episode. “So I’m going to give it my all.”
She also gave context for the creative shift driving it. “My pop career sort of took over my life in a way,” Grande explained on Good Hang. “The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up.” That statement, combined with her turn toward film with Wicked and Wicked: For Good, signals a deliberate redirection not a retirement.
Grande was careful to leave a door open. “I don’t want to say any definitive things,” she added. The tour, she said, felt “authentically good” to her. That phrase matters: it echoes language she has used repeatedly since leaving longtime manager Scooter Braun in 2023 and describing her relationship with music as newly “healed.”
Ariana Grande and the Scooter Braun Split Why Her Relationship With Music Changed
Grande’s description of a “healed” relationship with music traces directly to her 2023 departure from Scooter Braun and SB Projects, the management company that guided her career from Yours Truly onward. “Until quite recently, it was really hard for me to navigate and I think it stripped a lot of joy out of this for me,” Grande said in a separate November 2025 interview. “And by the way, I have a different team now. Said with love, but that was a piece.”
The shift in tone from that management era to now is audible on Eternal Sunshine, released March 8, 2024, on Republic Records. NME’s Nick Levine awarded it four stars, calling it the most sophisticated project yet from a vocalist who keeps getting better. Grande co-wrote the album alongside collaborators including Max Martin and Tommy Brown.
Her acting work deepened the change. Playing Glinda in Universal Pictures’ Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu and co-starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, gave Grande a creative identity outside the pop machine. Wicked: For Good follows. The Eternal Sunshine Tour sits between those two film chapters.
Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine Tour 2026 Full Schedule
The Eternal Sunshine Tour covers 41 shows across North America and London, running June 6 through September 1, 2026. Live Nation produces the run, which supports both Eternal Sunshine (2024, Republic Records) and Positions (2020, Republic Records) — making it a rare dual-album-era tour. Every city receives multiple nights, a deliberate residency-style structure Grande chose over a traditional one-stop-per-city trek.
Demand set records before a single show happened. Six million users entered the presale on September 9, 2025, including one million in Oakland and the Los Angeles area alone. Ticketmaster and SeatGeek both crashed. Grande responded by opting out of dynamic pricing and publicly calling resale markups “not right.” In January 2026, Ticketmaster began reissuing canceled scalper tickets directly to fans via a request process.
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| June 6 | Oakland, CA | Oakland Arena |
| June 9 | Oakland, CA | Oakland Arena |
| June 10 | Oakland, CA | Oakland Arena |
| June 13 | Los Angeles, CA | Crypto.com Arena |
| June 14 | Los Angeles, CA | Crypto.com Arena |
| June 17 | Los Angeles, CA | Kia Forum |
| June 19 | Los Angeles, CA | Kia Forum |
| June 20 | Los Angeles, CA | Kia Forum |
| June 24 | Austin, TX | Moody Center |
| June 26 | Austin, TX | Moody Center |
| June 27 | Austin, TX | Moody Center |
| June 30 | Sunrise, FL | Amerant Bank Arena |
| July 2 | Sunrise, FL | Amerant Bank Arena |
| July 3 | Sunrise, FL | Amerant Bank Arena |
| July 6 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena |
| July 8 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena |
| July 9 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena |
| July 12 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| July 13 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| July 16 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| July 18 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| July 19 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| July 22 | Boston, MA | TD Garden |
| July 24 | Boston, MA | TD Garden |
| July 25 | Boston, MA | TD Garden |
| July 28 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre |
| July 30 | Montreal, QC | Bell Centre |
| August 3 | Chicago, IL | United Center |
| August 5 | Chicago, IL | United Center |
| Aug 15–Sep 1 | London, UK | The O2 Arena (10 nights) |
The London residency at The O2 Arena runs across 10 nights: August 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31 and September 1. These are her only European dates. Tickets for The O2 went through AXS.com and theo2.co.uk, with O2 Priority access for O2 and Virgin Media customers.
Ariana Grande’s Expected Setlist What the Eternal Sunshine Tour Will Cover
No official setlist has been published as of April 2026. Based on Setlist.fm Eternal Sunshine Tour averages and rehearsal hints Grande confirmed in January 2026, she plans to pull from both Eternal Sunshine and its 2025 deluxe edition Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead subject to change at any performance.
The Positions era represents the biggest unknown. Grande never toured that album because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans widely expect a dedicated block covering “34+35,” “pov,” and “safety net,” per Setlist.fm Eternal Sunshine Tour tracking. Her Sweetener World Tour averaged 27 songs per show across a 90-to-110 minute runtime a similar scale seems likely here.
Per Setlist.fm Eternal Sunshine Tour averages, the expected setlist includes songs from Eternal Sunshine, Positions, Thank U, Next (Republic Records, 2019), and greatest hits spanning her catalog back to Dangerous Woman (Republic Records, 2016). Grande teased in January 2026 rehearsals that the set would pull from both Eternal Sunshine and the Brighter Days Ahead reissue. All predictions are subject to change.
Ariana Grande’s Billboard Career Why This Tour Matters
Grande has topped the Billboard Hot 100 nine times on Republic Records. She holds the record for the first artist to debut at No. 1 with her first three Hot 100 entries “Thank U, Next,” released on Republic Records, debuted at No. 1; “7 Rings,” on Republic Records, debuted at No. 1; and “Positions,” on Republic Records, debuted at No. 1. In November 2019, she held five simultaneous top 10 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 a feat previously matched only by the Beatles in 1964 and Drake in 2018.
Six of her seven studio albums have reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Sweetener World Tour grossed over $146 million across 56 dates in 2019. The Eternal Sunshine Tour arrives after the longest headline gap of her career seven years which is precisely why she is treating it as something close to a finale.
Grande also earned Grammy nominations and an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Wicked. She opened the 2025 Oscars ceremony alongside Cynthia Erivo performing “Defying Gravity.” The pop-to-film arc she has traced since 2023 makes the Eternal Sunshine Tour feel like a line drawn under one era before another fully begins.
Eternal Sunshine Tour FAQ Quick Answers
Is Ariana Grande retiring from music after the Eternal Sunshine Tour?
No. Grande said she does not want to make “definitive” statements and confirmed she is not abandoning music. She described the tour as a “last hurrah” for touring, not for music.
How many shows is Ariana Grande doing in London?
Grande plays 10 nights at The O2 Arena in London, from August 15 through September 1, 2026. These are her only European dates.
Did Ariana Grande use dynamic pricing for the Eternal Sunshine Tour?
No. Grande publicly opted out of dynamic pricing and called resale markups “not right” after 6 million fans entered the presale on September 9, 2025.
Where did Ariana Grande talk about the tour being her last?
Grande made the statement on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, which aired November 18, 2025. She described it as “one last hurrah. For now.”
Why did Ariana Grande leave Scooter Braun?
Grande has not given a detailed public explanation. She said in November 2025 that working under her old team “stripped a lot of joy” from music and that her relationship with music is now “healed.”
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