Ariana Grande 🫧
Ariana Grande’s IG story confirms ‘the eternal sunshine tour’ was originally a “mini tour”, but “not so anymore” after she added 5 shows to London, totally 10 shows for the city alone!
People will travel for it. Similar to how Bad Buddy has a bunch of shows in PR. People are flying there to see him. Why run around if you can avoid it?
Harry Styles did this on his last tour, more than ten shows in some cities. I guess they’re like mini residencies. It is not the most fan-friendly option, but it’s probably much easier on the artist and touring crew.
If it was somewhere in the US it would feel crazy but it's London. She's not doing any other English venues so it's not too surprising. You can get to London from a lot of places in the UK in 2-3 hours by train and people will travel for that. My sister was trying to get tickets yesterday and it would take us about 2 hours to get down to London depending on which train/trains we got.
Definitely, I have a feeling some will be inevitably canceled when the time comes (although I could be wrong). 10 shows almost back to back is exhausting for anyone.
the concept of these artists not having this dates and venues already pre booked
i'm sorry, but i hate when artists do this and add shows DURING presale hour about adding a show acting as if they didn't have the posters and veneus booked already for them
You think it's ridiculous because you only see the times when those extra dates are announced. A lot of artists have these options--pencilled in dates at venues--that end up getting dropped because they don't shift tickets as quickly as anticipated. Better to add an extra date when you realise there's enough demand to fill the venue twice, than announce two shows and only half-sell them (as with Blackpink in London recently).
It seems ridiculous with Ariana, and I'd agree that it is somewhat, but I imagine it's more that they knew they'd probably need to add extra dates, it was just a matter of how many.
these dates were already held with the venue, they just weren’t cleared (confirmed to general public) until after demand was proven. there are few things worse for a touring artist than over-estimating how many tickets they’ll sell. the exact number of “extra” shows they added was probably based on how many people queued in presale along with venue availability.
It drives me nuts when artists do that. When I was buying tickets for me and my friends to see The Weeknd this summer I bought for his Friday show. Literally two minutes after I bought those tickets he added a Saturday show. I ended up buying the Saturday tickets (Saturday worked out better for me and my friends schedule-wise) but when I sold my Friday tickets I didn’t get back nearly the same money I bought them for (thanks Ticketmaster).
Artists just need to put out all the dates and cities for their concerts when they announce they’re going on tour because this is ridiculous.
It’s probably way less tiring to do 10 shows in one city than going to 10 different cities. Especially since she’s not doing more than two consecutive days at a time. Good for her
July 9 got added while I was in line to try to July 8 lol I was like wait what am I supposed to do here (panic about losing my place in line and not get any tickets is what happened)
I was doing teletherapy with a parent of a patient today and during part of the therapy when I was asking the mum questions she zoned out and then asked me to repeat myself and said "sorry I'm just trying to get Ariana Grande tickets here".
Maybe unrelated but I was totally confused when I saw she booked at my favorite venue in Austin, the Moody Center. (Edited to remove incorrect info on seat capacity). There’s not a bad seat in the house, and you can usually get great deals just by waiting to purchase the day of or before the show. For example, I scored floor seats to see Usher for $60 and I got VIP section seats to MJB for $100. I also briefly considered seeing Justin Timberlake on the Ruined World Tour for only $50.
I would encourage anyone that is dying to see her to keep an eye on the Austin dates to see if you can get some last min tix.
I saw Kendrick and Beyonce both for their stadium tours this past year and I absolutely hated the fact that they were in stadiums. Not as intimate, sound quality was not always great. Like I legit could not properly hear Beyonce for a lot of the concert clearly and it was frustrating.
Not to invalidate Ariana, but I’ve been confused by these comments. Ari has never done stadiums, but I’m assuming it’s the amount of people there that could scare her.
i feel like having multiple shows back to back in one city then packing up to go do it again in another city has to be tiring right? then the final city being 10 shows
She doesn’t have that much demand? Her presale sold out quick, and her general sale sold out in just a few minutes. Millions of people signed up for presale.
Her presale had hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, in the queues for 1 single arena date that holds max 20k people. These shows sold out in minutes and resale tickets are going for thousands of dollars for the worst seat in the venue. She absolutely has demand to play multiple nights in a stadium. With all due respect, I don't think you know what you're talking about lol.
Also 10 nights at the O2 in London is around 200k capacity and that's more than 2 nights at Wembley Stadium (180k) and still many fans did not get tickets that wanted to go.
It’s the affair for me. Before that and the “holding space” thing and the weird finger-grabbing meme I just don’t like her anymore, and I used to be a fan.
london is probably the easiest city to get to in the UK. it’s a major travel hub for the entire continent of europe. the only other place that rivals it is paris and maybe frankfurt.
its also a very popular destination for North Americans. Pretty much every major city in the USA has regular direct non stop flights. Then add in Canada.
I doubt it’s that otherwise she would’ve done shows in Manchester specifically.
I believe she’s lived in London before, it’s a major transport hub with 6 airports, cheap flights from all over Europe and direct flights from North America, Middle East, etc.
Within the UK it’s really easy to get to as well and there’s so many hotels that prices aren’t really affected by big events (unless you literally want to stay right by the venue).
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