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Ariana Grande Expands Sweetener World Tour
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Ariana Grande added several dates to her Sweetener World Tour on Monday. The routing give her second shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, New York and Washington, D.C.
The dates bring the 25-year-old pop star’s 2019 tour, which kicks off March 18 in Albany and now concludes June 26 in Toronto, to a total of 51 dates. As with the tour’s other shows, Normani and Social House will serve as openers. In 2017, Grande sold 879,164 tickets worldwide for a gross of $66.5 million.
The announcement caps a massive year for Grande, whose fourth studio album Sweetener debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s albums chart. Today, her standalone single “Thank U, Next,” which spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 upon its Nov. 3 release, returned to the chart’s peak, after Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” dethroned it for a week. Her Sweetener singles “No Tears Left to Cry” and “God Is A Woman” also reached the Hot 100’s top 10.
Curiously, despite being among the year’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful releases, Sweetener garnered only two Grammy nominations when they were announced last week — and only in genre-specific categories, for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. Grande has previously received four Grammy nominations, but has never won.
Grande’s professional success has coincided with personal hardship. A May 2017 terrorist attack outside her concert in Manchester, England killed 22 and injured many more. Less than a month later, Grande returned to Manchester with stars including Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams to stage the One Love Manchester benefit concert.
Earlier this year, Grande’s ex-boyfriend Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose.
See the itinerary for Grande’s Sweetener World Tour, with newly announced dates bolded, below.
Sweetener World Tour:
March 18 – Albany, NY – Times Union Center
March 20 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
March 22 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
March 25 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
March 26 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
March 28 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
March 30 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
April 1 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
April 3 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
April 5 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
April 7 – Chicago, IL – United Center
April 8 – Chicago, IL – United Center
April 10 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center
April 12 – Indianapolis, IN – Bankers Life Fieldhouse
April 13 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
April 15 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
April 17 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
April 18 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center
April 20 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
April 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – Vivint Smart Home Arena
April 25 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
April 27 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
April 30 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
May 2 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center
May 3 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
May 6 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
May 7 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
May 10 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum
May 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Arena
May 17 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
May 19 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
May 21 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
May 23 – Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena
May 25 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
May 28 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
May 29 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center
May 31 – Miami, FL – American Airlines Arena
June 1 – Miami, FL – American Airlines Arena
June 4 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
June 7 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
June 8 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
June 10 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center
June 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
June 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
June 15 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
June 18 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
June 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
June 21 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
June 22 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
June 24 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
June 26 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena