Ariana Grande is returning to the stage for “Eternal Sunshine” tour, her first arena tour in seven years.
While guesting on an episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast posted Tuesday, the pop superstar explained that while she’s feeling really excited to perform for her fans in 2026, she doesn’t think she’ll do it again any time soon after the trek supporting 2024 album "Eternal Sunshine".
“I’m going to do a small stint of shows next year because that is something that sounded authentically good to me,” she said.
“Following those authentic impulses, it feels like a really good idea,” Grande noted before reflecting on how she’s been shifting focus in her career to include more acting projects. “My pop career sort of took over my life in a way. I feel very privileged and grateful to learn that there can be room for different creative endeavors … The last 10 or 15 years will look very different to the ones that are coming up.”
“I don’t want to say any definitive things,” she noted. “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. So I’m going to give it my all. I think that’s why I’m doing it, because I’m like, ‘One last hurrah. For now.'”
It’s not the first time Grande has hinted that she’d be focusing less on pop music going forward.
In October, the Grammy winner revealed that she once thought she would “never” make an album again after her 2020 Positions LP, but that playing Glinda in the Wicked films — the second of which premieres November 21 — inspired her to keep creating music, leading to "Eternal Sunshine".
Grande has also been even less keen on touring over the years. She hasn’t hit the road since her "Sweetener World" tour wrapped in 2019, and when she was asked in 2024 by Variety whether she was planning shows for her Eternal Sunshine era, she replied, “I think the next few years, hopefully we’ll be exploring different forms of art, and I think acting is feeling like home right now.”
This past August, however, Grande announced that she’d be touring after all, with her "Eternal Sunshine" trek kicking off in June next year and running through August. Her shows are planned for L.A., Atlanta, Chicago, Montreal, London, and a few more cities.
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