Jan. 5, 2026, 12:42 p.m. ET
Ariana Grande is solidifying the set list for her upcoming tour – but keeping it closely under wraps.
The pop star, 32, has shed the snowy blonde locks that defined both “Wicked” press tours and is headed back out on the road as herself. Grande’s Eternal Sunshine tour, promoting an album of the same name, will kick off in June and hop across the U.S. before concluding in London.
“I’ve been working on the set list for months now,” Grande told E! News Sunday on the Critics Choice Awards red carpet. “It’s in a good place, but we’ll never know until we get into the rehearsals – which are starting very soon – and we put things on their feet if it’ll make sense or not.”
Like her most recent tour, Grande’s 2026 jaunt will span two albums, 2024’s “Eternal Sunshine” and 2020’s “Positions.” The dual album nature of the tour – along with Grande’s recent acting interlude – creates seemingly endless set list options. For now, though, the pop star isn’t giving any hints.
“I want to let it be a surprise,” she told E!, adding, “I am grateful to work and I’m excited for the tour.”
As for whether she’ll include any Glinda songs in her tour, she kept mum, coyly telling the outlet: “We’ll see.” Grande played the good witch in both “Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good,” Jon M. Chu’s two-part movie adaptation of the popular Broadway musical. The films, and their subsequent press tours, subsumed the pop star into what some saw as an entirely different character, more similar to Glinda than to her previous self.
Grande, however, is insistent that she’s the same through it all. Asked if she transforms when she tours, the pop star told E! “I think it’s the same person.”
