My Next Tour Will Be Smaller Than What Fans Are Used To – Ariana Grande

Popular singer Ariana Grande has said that her upcoming stage tour will be different. She recently revealed that her 2026 tour will have fewer stops compared to previous ones.

Speaking with Nicole Kidman for Interview magazine, Ariana disclosed that her upcoming Eternal Sunshine world tour will be smaller than her previous tours.

According to her, despite the smaller arrangements ahead of the start date, she remains very excited for the experience with her fans.

Grande stated that touring has helped her heal her relationship with music over the years.

“We’re doing a small amount compared to what I used to do back in the day. I think it’s 45 shows. It’s not that small, but it’s at least half of what I used to do.

I feel really grateful and excited about it in a way that feels so different to me. I’ve just been healing my relationship to music and touring over the past couple of years,” she said.

The songstress further noted that she has had to spend a lot of time rebooting her system when it comes to making music.

Grande concluded by saying that her time spent playing “Glinda” in “Wicked and Wicked: For Good” has helped her work towards a better relationship with her identity as a pop star.

“With Eternal Sunshine, that felt like a very different experience for me. I think the time away from it helped me reclaim certain pieces of it and put certain feelings that maybe belonged to my relationship to fame, or the [negative] things that come with being an artist, in a box somewhere else, and say, ‘Okay. I don’t have to let go of this thing that I love. I can just put those things over here, and not lose sight of my gifts.’

I’ve just been taking baby steps towards healing my relationship to music and touring, and I think my time with Glinda and with acting really helped me build the strength to be able to do that …I think it just held some traumas for me before, and I feel those dissipating, and that is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing.

There was a tricky adjustment period in the very beginning, when my pop career took off the way that it did,” she said. “And I hope this doesn’t sound ungrateful, but it’s just a big adjustment when your life changes in that very drastic way … I’m so grateful to be able to do what I love. I just wasn’t expecting certain pieces of it,” she added.