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Billie Eilish Announces Dates for Hit Me Hard and Soft 2024-2025 World Tour
Billie Eilish announced the globe tour dates for her third album on Monday (April 29). The Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour is set to begin on September 29 at the Centre Videotron in Quebec, Canada, and will take the singer across North America until late December, with stops in Toronto, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Newark, Boston, and Pittsburgh before a three-night stand at Madison Square Garden (October 16-18) and two nights at State Farm Arena in Atlanta (November 2-3).
The tour in support of Hit Me Hard and Soft (May 17) will travel throughout the country, with stops in Nashville, Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, and San Jose. The tour will conclude with three nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on December 15-17. Eilish will then go to Australia for a series of gigs in Brisbane (February 18, 19, 21, 22), Sydney (February 24, 25, 27, 28), and Melbourne (March 4, 5, 7, 8).
The dates will resume in April 2025 for a European leg of the Live Nation-promoted tour, which will take the artist to 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, on July 27. Tickets for the tour will go on sale beginning with an American Express presale on Tuesday (April 30), with other presales scheduled throughout the week. Tickets will be available for purchase on Eilish’s website beginning May 3rd.
The tour will include a number of sustainability initiatives, including the continuation of Eilish’s long-standing partnership with environmental nonprofit Reverb, which has resulted in $1 million in donations to environmental, greenhouse-gas reduction, and climate-justice projects, according to a press release announcing the dates.
Sustainability activities on the 2019 tour will include lowering greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing single-use plastic waste, advocating for climate action, and revising concession services to promote plant-based food choices.
In addition, a percentage of ticket proceeds from North American sales will benefit Reverb’s efforts to solve food insecurity and the climate crisis. There will also be a Billie Eilish Reverb environmental village set up in two areas on the main concourse of each event, where fans can contribute to the tour’s sustainability initiatives and connect with charitable organizations.
Support + Feed will also continue its earlier work with Eilish, offering an enhanced version of the Support+Feed Pledge, which encourages fans to consume one plant-based meal every day for 30 days.
Fans of Eilish are also encouraged to take public transportation and/or carpool to events to lessen their carbon footprint, as well as to bring an empty reusable water bottle or donate to receive a custom RockNRefill Nalgene bottle that can be filled up for free at water-refill stations located at each venue.
Eilish is also pushing fans to battle the massive waste produced by fast fashion by dressing up for her shows in thrifted, upcycled, or borrowed garments rather than buying new ones.
To prevent scalping, the tour is utilizing Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange. This program allows fans who cannot attend the North American tour to resell their tickets to other fans at the original price. For more information, click here.