Dua Lipa's return down under has us levitating this morning!
Announcing a global Radical Optimism Tour, Dua Lipa will make the first stop in Australia in 2025 playing stadium shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The pop superstar will touch down at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Thursday 20 March and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Wednesday 26 March, followed by a quick nip to New Zealand to play in Auckland.
The 3x GRAMMY Award and 7x BRIT Award-winning performer will play over 40 new dates on the Radical Optimism Tour across Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and the UK next year. Additionally, South American shows will be announced at a later date.
Dua Lipa Radical Optimism Tour
- Thu Mar 20 – Melbourne, Australia – Rod Laver Arena
- Wed Mar 26 – Sydney, Australia – Qudos Bank Arena
- Wed Apr 2 – Auckland, New Zealand – Spark Arena
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The tour announcement follows Dua’s highly anticipated debut on the Pyramid Stage as the Friday night headliner at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival earlier this summer. The BBC praised her performance, saying, “Dua hit every mark with the precision of someone who had been preparing for this moment for years.” Following her electric Glastonbury set, she immediately sold out two consecutive nights at London’s iconic Wembley Stadium set for June 2025. Dua has reached a new pinnacle in her career, with fan demand at an all-time high.
The global tour supports Dua’s third studio album, Radical Optimism, which was released May 3, 2024 via Warner Records. The album went straight to No. 1 in 11 countries, including the UK where it became the biggest album debut from a UK artist in 2024 and garnered the highest week one sales from a UK female artist since 2021. In the US, the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking Dua’s biggest sales week yet.
It’s set to be a spectacular show full of pop hits including ‘Training Season’, ‘Houdini’, ‘Don’t Start Now’ and ‘Cold Heart’.
The artist presale begins Thursday, September 19 at 12pm local time at dualipa.com. The general onsale for the Dua Lipa tour begins Friday, September 20 at 1pm local time at dualipa.com.
