After a six-and-a-half-year layoff between tours, Ariana Grande has made a long-awaited return to the concert stage, with her “Eternal Sunshine” tour kicking off at the Oakland Arena Saturday night. Variety was on hand for the show and has the full setlist, below; a full review will follow on Sunday..
The name of the tour was an easy tip-off that the show would focus largely on material from the “Eternal Sunshine” album, released in March 2024, and the deluxe edition that followed in March 2025). But she’s actually released two new studio albums since she wrapped up her last tour in December 2019, 2021’s “Positions” being the other, so there was plenty of material to draw upon that hadn’t previously been a part of any Grande road show.
As for the forthcoming “Petal” album, that isn’t due till July 31, so for now fans are only getting “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” the first single, which came out May 29. Grande’s tour continues through Sept. 1, so it remains to be seen whether she might introduce more songs from “Petal” into the setlist for the last lap of the tour.
As it turned out, “Grande has largely moved on from the “”Eternal Sunshine” responsible for a hardy 11 selections in the set, roughly half of the 23-song show. The preceding album, “Positions,” only got three positions in the concert, but that was still more than any of the preceding albums. The “Thank U, Next,” “Dangerous Woman” and “My Everything” albums were represented by two songs each, while “Yours Truly” and the forthcoming “Petal” contributed one song apiece to the set. Rounding it out was “Rain on Me,” with pre-recorded vocals by Lady Gaga; that duet only appeared on a Gaga album.
