Gen Z superstar Billie Eilish is returning to Rogers Arena

by V. S. Wells on April 29th, 2024 at 9:28 AM

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The “Bad Guy” is back.

Billie Eilish’s hotly anticipated third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, is set to drop on May 17—and today, the singer announced she’ll be spending the next nine months on a huge tour of the same name.

The worldwide event starts on September 29 at Quebec City’s Centre Videotron, followed by two nights at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, before winding its way across the US to hit up Rogers Arena on December 3, and closing out at her hometown of Inglewood, California shortly before her 23rd birthday.

Ticket presale begins on April 30, with general admission onsale from May 3. To fight scalpers, tickets will be digital-only and can be resold between fans for face value.

Since Eilish last played Rogers in 2022, the record-breaking singer—who became the youngest person to win four main Grammy categories in the same year in 2020, and won her first Oscar in 2022—has added more accolades to her name. “What Was I Made For?”, the closing song she wrote for last year’s cinema smash Barbie, garnered her two more Grammys and another Oscar, making her the youngest-ever two-time Academy Award winner. That’s quite the resume for anyone, let alone an artist born after you had to start taking your shoes off in airports.

In a current cover story for Rolling Stone, she says she’s spent the past couple of years trying to return to the person she was before her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? turned her into a mega-star.

“This whole process has felt like I’m coming back to the girl that I was,” Eilish says in the far-reaching interview. “I don’t remember when she went away.”

As if she wasn’t busy enough, Eilish is also continuing her efforts to fight climate change and tour sustainably. A portion of ticket proceeds will be going to environmental non-profit REVERB; concessions will have more plant-based offerings, and so-called “eco-villages” promoting sustainability efforts will be set up in the concourses at every show.

Eilish also suggests fans borrow or thrift clothing to put together new show fits, take public transit or carpool to events, as well as bring reusable water bottles.

We’ve only got one planet, after all—and Eilish has plenty more world records to set.