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Happier Than Ever, The World Tour
Tour by Billie Eilish
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated albumHappier Than Ever
Start dateFebruary 3, 2022
End dateApril 2, 2023
Legs5
No. of shows38 in North America
21 in Europe
6 in Asia
15 in Oceania
7 in Latin America
87 in total
Billie Eilish concert chronology

Happier Than Ever, The World Tour[1] is the sixth concert tour by American singer Billie Eilish, in support of her second studio album Happier Than Ever (2021).[2][3] The tour commenced on February 3, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Smoothie King Center. It will conclude at Arena VFG in Guadalajara, on April 2, 2023.

Background

On May 21, 2021, the tour was announced through a YouTube video posted to her official page. In the short clip, the artist sits alone in the auditorium, while at the end of the visual, the camera points to Eilish's official website.[4] Subsequently, Eilish posted further announcements through other social media pages such as Twitter.[5] The tour uses Ticketmaster's Verified fan program in North America.[6] It initially consisted of 50 dates (32 in North America and 18 in Europe).[6][7] Tickets sold out quickly, leading to the addition of more dates.[8] A third leg, with locations in Oceania, was also added to the tour.[9]

To mark the tour's conclusion, Eilish worked with Apple Music to exclusively host a film of one of the concerts, specifically one of her shows at the O2 Arena in London. She billed the film as a way for fans who missed out on tickets to experience the tour for themselves, wanting more people to recognize her for her showmanship live.[10][11][12] Eilish previewed the film by sharing performances of two tracks from the album—"Therefore I Am" and "I Didn't Change My Number"—through her YouTube account.[13]

Concert synopsis

The show begins with strobing lights, white backdrops, whilst Eilish is catapulted from under the stage to perform "Bury a Friend", accompanyied by a drummer, Andrew Marshall, and her brother, Finneas, on guitar.[14][15] It was followed by "slinkier" and "hard-hitting" track "I Didn't Change My Number".[16][17] Next, she sung "NDA", while the stage projected a street and the monitors were displaying cars swerving, later transitioning to "Therefore I Am", when the screens turned red.[14] The singer proceeded with "hypnotic" rendition of "My Strange Addiction"[18] and "downshifted" version of "Idontwannabeyouanymore".[15] During "You Should See Me in a Crown" performance, Eilish instructed her fans to stay still "like Squid Game".[16]

"Billie Bossa Nova" performance was "turned into a libidinous rager" with backdrops projecting faceless, scantily clad dancing bodies.[17] According to the New York Times' Lindsay Zoladz, performance of "Goldwing" was a "kinetic call-and-response number."[17] Later, she follows with "quiter" song "Halley's Comet".[18] Next, Eilish performs "Oxytocin", which also included a fragment of "Copycat". The artist additionally asks fans to get as low as possible, so all of them can jump at once.[14][16]

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell seated at center stage, holding their acoustic guitars
The tour's acoustic interlude. Eilish first performed the two tracks from her second extended play, Guitar Songs, during this section.

To begin the tour's acoustic interlude, Finneas joins Eilish on the stage so that they can perform "Your Power" with guitars.[18] In select concerts, starting with the first night at Manchester on June 7, the two debut the song "TV". Alongside "The 30th", it is part of Eilish's two-track extended play Guitar Songs, released in July 2022.[19][20] She and Finneas perform "The 30th" in place of "TV" for the first time in the tour's Manila concert; Eilish remarked that "The 30th" was hard to sing for her due to its personal lyrics.[21][22] When they do not perform "TV" or "The 30th", Finneas returns to the keyboard, leaving Eilish at center stage to sing "Male Fantasy" by herself.[15][16]

It is followed by "Not My Responsibility" interlude, after which she sugues into "Overheated", during which she is on the crane.[15] After that, the singer performs a mash-up of her earlier songs "Bellyache", "Ocean Eyes", and "Bored".[16] She goes back to the stage, and plays "Getting Older" with home videos of the singer and her family being displayed on the backdrops.[14][16] For "All the Good Girls Go to Hell", screens present global warming effects on the Earth,[18] such as polar bears on melting ice caps, pollution, oil spills, and wildfires. During the song's chorus they turn from flames to complete red.[14]

Eilish starts an encore with "Everything I Wanted", which has been called "relatively breezy" by Keith Spera of The New Orleans Advocate.[15] She follows it with a performance of "Bad Guy", which sees her jumping around the stage, and confetti shot up from the ceiling.[14] "Happier Than Ever" is the concluding song of the show, where Finneas plays the electric guitar,[15] and Eilish headbangs during the second half of the song.[16]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show in Pittsburgh on February 8, 2022. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.[23]

  1. "Bury a Friend"
  2. "I Didn't Change My Number"
  3. "NDA"
  4. "Therefore I Am"
  5. "My Strange Addiction"
  6. "Idontwannabeyouanymore"
  7. "Lovely"
  8. "You Should See Me in a Crown"
  9. "Billie Bossa Nova"
  10. "Goldwing"
  11. "Halley's Comet"
  12. "Oxytocin" (contains an excerpt from "Copycat")
  13. "Ilomilo"
  14. "Your Power" (with Finneas)
  15. "Male Fantasy"
  16. "Not My Responsibility" (interlude)
  17. "Overheated"
  18. "Bellyache"
  19. "Ocean Eyes"
  20. "Bored"
  21. "Getting Older"
  22. "Lost Cause"
  23. "When the Party's Over"
  24. "All the Good Girls Go to Hell"
  25. "Everything I Wanted"
  26. "Bad Guy"
  27. "Happier Than Ever"
  28. "Goodbye" (outro)

Notes

Starting on June 7, "TV" and "The 30th" were added to the setlist.[citation needed]

Tour dates

List of concerts showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, attendance, and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening Acts Attendance Revenue
North America[24]
February 3, 2022 New Orleans United States Smoothie King Center — 12,113 / 12,113 $1,419,620
February 5, 2022 Atlanta State Farm Arena Tkay Maidza 11,486 / 11,486 $1,384,894
February 6, 2022 Charlotte Spectrum Center — —
February 8, 2022 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena 12,297 / 12,402 $1,284,679
February 9, 2022 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 13,073 / 13,367 $1,672,736
February 10, 2022 University Park Bryce Jordan Center — —
February 12, 2022 Buffalo KeyBank Center Dora Jar[a] — —
February 13, 2022 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 12,495 / 12,495 $1,600,257
February 15, 2022 Elmont UBS Arena 11,084 / 11,084 $1,169,337
February 18, 2022 New York City Madison Square Garden 26,976 / 26,976 $3,927,430
February 19, 2022
February 20, 2022 Boston TD Garden 12,910 / 12,910 $1,698,934
February 22, 2022 Newark Prudential Center 12,511 / 12,511 $1,499,947
March 8, 2022 Birmingham Legacy Arena Duckwrth — —
March 9, 2022 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 13,434 / 13,434 $1,833,934
March 11, 2022 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 16,003 / 16,003 $1,714,580
March 12, 2022 Detroit Little Caesars Arena — —
March 14, 2022 Chicago United Center 13,852 / 13,852 $1,770,396
March 15, 2022 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center — —
March 16, 2022 Omaha CHI Health Center Omaha 14,496 / 14,496 $1,598,248
March 19, 2022 Denver Ball Arena — —
March 21, 2022 Salt Lake City Vivint Arena — —
March 24, 2022 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena — —
March 25, 2022 Seattle United States Climate Pledge Arena 28,554 / 28,554 $3,980,733
March 26, 2022
March 29, 2022 San Francisco Chase Center 12,967 / 13,207 $1,600,289
March 30, 2022 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 13,579 / 13,579 $1,670,124
April 1, 2022 Paradise T-Mobile Arena 14,772 / 14,772 $1,884,691
April 2, 2022 Glendale Gila River Arena 27,068 / 27,068 $3,758,290
April 4, 2022[b]
April 6, 2022 Inglewood Kia Forum 41,321 / 41,321 $5,715,143
April 8, 2022 Dora Jar
April 9, 2022
April 16, 2022[c] Indio Empire Polo Club — — —
April 23, 2022[c]
Europe[26]
June 3, 2022 Belfast Northern Ireland The SSE Arena Jessie Reyez 9,259 / 9,549 $880,418
June 4, 2022 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 24,033 / 24,305 $2,134,567
June 5, 2022 Jungle
June 7, 2022 Manchester England AO Arena Jessie Reyez — —
June 8, 2022 Jungle
June 10, 2022 London The O2 Arena Jessie Reyez 106,803 / 106,803[d] $10,083,194[d]
June 11, 2022
June 12, 2022
June 14, 2022 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro 12,803 / 12,803 $1,160,754
June 15, 2022 Birmingham England Utilita Arena — —
June 16, 2022 London The O2 Arena Jungle — —
June 18, 2022 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Jessie Reyez — —
June 19, 2022 Frankfurt Germany Festhalle 10,772 / 10,772 $868,130
June 21, 2022 Cologne Lanxess Arena 15,645 / 15,645 $1,147,216
June 22, 2022 Paris France Accor Arena 13,492 / 13,492 $1,028,704
June 24, 2022[e] Pilton England Worthy Farm — — —
June 25, 2022 London The O2 Arena Arlo Parks —[d] —[d]
June 26, 2022 Girl in Red
June 28, 2022 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis Jessie Reyez — —
June 30, 2022 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena — —
July 2, 2022 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 13,000 / 13,000 $1,528,765
Asia
August 13, 2022 Manila Philippines SM Mall of Asia Arena — 14,500 / 14,500 —
August 15, 2022 Seoul South Korea Gocheok Sky Dome 25,000 / 25,000[27] —
August 18, 2022 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Bukit Jalil National Stadium 25,000 / 25,000 —
August 21, 2022 Singapore Singapore National Stadium 30,000 / 30,000 —
August 24, 2022 Bangkok Thailand IMPACT Arena 10,000 / 10,000 —
August 26, 2022 Tokyo Japan Ariake Arena 11,500 / 11,500 —
Oceania
September 8, 2022 Auckland New Zealand Spark Arena — 36,151 / 36,151 $3,579,366
September 9, 2022
September 10, 2022
September 13, 2022 Sydney Australia Qudos Bank Arena 48,049 / 48,049 $5,057,316
September 14, 2022
September 15, 2022
September 17, 2022 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre 33,897 / 33,897 $3,447,322
September 18, 2022
September 19, 2022
September 22, 2022 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 54,759 / 54,759 $7,483,178
September 23, 2022
September 24, 2022
September 26, 2022
September 29, 2022 Perth RAC Arena 28,869 / 28,869 $2,716,658
September 30, 2022
North America
December 13, 2022 Inglewood United States Kia Forum TBA — —
December 15, 2022
December 16, 2022
Latin America
March 17, 2023[f] Santiago Chile Parque Bicentenario de Cerrilos — — —
March 19, 2023[g] Buenos Aires Argentina Hipódromo de San Isidro
March 24, 2023[h] São Paulo Brazil Interlagos Circuit
March 26, 2023[i] Bogotá Colombia Campo de Golf Briceño
March 29, 2023 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol TBA — —
March 31, 2023[j] Monterrey Fundidora Park — — —
April 2, 2023 Guadalajara Arena VFG TBA — —
— —

Cancelled dates

List of cancelled concerts showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
February 15, 2022 Montréal Canada Bell Centre COVID-19 pandemic in Canada[28][29]
February 16, 2022 Toronto Scotiabank Arena

Notes

  1. ^ Willow was originally slated to open for Eilish, but later dropped out due to production limitations.[25]
  2. ^ The concert on April 4, 2022, in Glendale at the Gila River Arena was originally scheduled for April 3, 2022, however due to conflicts with the new 64th Annual Grammy Awards date the show was postponed.
  3. ^ a b Part of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
  4. ^ a b c d Attendance and box score data combined for shows on June 10–12 and 25-26.
  5. ^ This concert is part of the Glastonbury Festival
  6. ^ Part of Lollapalooza Chile
  7. ^ Part of Lollapalooza Argentina
  8. ^ Part of Lollapalooza Brazil
  9. ^ Part of Estereo Picnic
  10. ^ Part of Tecate Pal Norte

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