the archiveevery ariana grande show already played, with the setlist from each night

the tours

all 4 of them, newest first — what each was for, where it went, who was on the bill, and what to go and watch.

1. Sweetener World Tour2019 · sweetener · 100 showsa hundred shows, two albums, 1.3 million people — the biggest run she has done›

   100shows

   1.3 millionpeople

   $146.4 milliongrossed

   2 regionsplayed

   a hundred shows carrying two albums, because sweetener and thank u, next arrived six months apart and the tour had to hold both. it is her highest-grossing run by a distance: $146.4 million, 1.3 million people, north america and europe.

   the context is what makes it remarkable rather than the numbers. this is the tour that followed manchester, followed mac miller's death, followed the most publicly difficult two years an artist of that size has had. going out at all was a decision; going out for a hundred nights was something else.

   the set is unusually honest about that. it does not pretend the previous two years did not happen — ghostin sits in the middle of it — and it closes on thank u, next, which is a song about surviving people rather than about beating them. the concert film, excuse me, i love you, is the document of it.

   then it stopped. seven years passed before the next tour, most of them spent on film sets.

   where

   north america · europe

   on the bill

   Normani, Social House

   the songs it is remembered for

   • no tears left to cry
   • god is a woman
   • 7 rings
   • thank u, next
   • ghostin
   • breathin

   watch it

   • excuse me, i love you — the concert film ↗
   • full show footage ↗
   • ghostin live ↗

   figures from wikipedia — list of ariana grande live performances. nothing here is estimated — a number we could not source is simply absent.

2. Dangerous Woman Tour2017 · dangerous woman · 77 showsseventy-seven shows across five continents, and the night that changed everything›

   77shows

   $71 milliongrossed

   5 regionsplayed

   the tour that was supposed to be the coronation. seventy-seven shows, five continents, the biggest production she had built — a record that had finally stopped asking permission, taken on the road at the scale it deserved.

   on 22 may 2017 a bomb was detonated in the foyer of manchester arena as the audience was leaving her show. twenty-two people were killed, most of them young, many of them there because of her. the tour was suspended.

   thirteen days later she went back. one love manchester was organised in under two weeks, headlined by her, with a bill assembled out of everyone who said yes — coldplay, miley cyrus, katy perry, justin bieber, the black eyed peas, liam gallagher, take that, pharrell, mac miller, niall horan, robbie williams, imogen heap and the parrs wood high school choir. the 55,000 tickets went in twenty minutes. it raised money for the victims' families and it is, by any measure, the most consequential thing on this page.

   she finished the tour. what the run means now is not the seventy-seven shows or the seventy-one million dollars — it is that the person who had every reason never to walk onto a stage again chose to walk back onto that one, in that city, in front of those people.

   where

   north america · europe · asia · latin america · oceania

   on the bill

   Victoria Monét, Little Mix, BIA

   the songs it is remembered for

   • dangerous woman
   • into you
   • side to side
   • be alright
   • one last time

   watch it

   • one love manchester — full concert ↗
   • somewhere over the rainbow, manchester ↗
   • full show footage ↗

   figures from wikipedia — list of ariana grande live performances, wikipedia — one love manchester. nothing here is estimated — a number we could not source is simply absent.

3. The Honeymoon Tour2015 · my everything · 88 showseighty-eight shows and the jump to arenas, one year after the clubs›

   88shows

   808,667people

   $41.8 milliongrossed

   4 regionsplayed

   the first real tour, and the scale of the jump is the point: eleven shows in 2013, eighty-eight in 2015, across four continents. my everything had turned her from a nickelodeon graduate with an r&b record into a radio fixture with features on everything, and the routing reflects it — north america, europe, asia and latin america inside a single year.

   the show itself was built around the album's edm-pop spine, with the ballads used as the breathing space between. it is the last tour where the staging is bigger than the persona; from dangerous woman onward that ratio inverts and never goes back.

   808,667 people saw it. that number matters less than what it set up: by the end of this run she could fill an arena anywhere in the world, and every tour after it was routed on that assumption.

   where

   north america · europe · asia · latin america

   on the bill

   Rixton, Prince Royce

   the songs it is remembered for

   • problem
   • break free
   • love me harder
   • one last time
   • bang bang

   watch it

   • full show footage ↗
   • break free live ↗

   figures from wikipedia — list of ariana grande live performances. nothing here is estimated — a number we could not source is simply absent.

4. The Listening Sessions2013 · yours truly · 11 showseleven nights in small rooms, before almost anybody knew›

   11shows

   $679,360grossed

   north americaplayed

   the first tour, and by later standards it barely counts as one: eleven shows, theatres and clubs rather than arenas, built to put the debut album in front of people who had only heard the singles. the name is exact — these were listening sessions, closer to a showcase than a production.

   worth knowing about because of what it proves. there was no arena scaling here, no staging to hide behind and no catalogue to lean on: one album, a band, and a voice that had to carry the room on its own. everyone who saw one of these eleven nights got the version of the show that later tours spent millions trying to reproduce at scale.

   where

   north america

   the songs it is remembered for

   • the way
   • baby i
   • honeymoon avenue
   • tattooed heart

   watch it

   • full show footage ↗
   • honeymoon avenue live 2013 ↗

   figures from wikipedia — list of ariana grande live performances. nothing here is estimated — a number we could not source is simply absent.