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Ariana Grande attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026.\u00a0Grande launched her Eternal Sunshine tour at Oakland Arena with a 23-song set before two more Bay Area dates.<\/p>\n
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Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s first headlining tour in nearly seven years started in the Bay Area, not far from where her last one ended<\/a>.<\/p>\n The pop star returned to the concert stage Saturday, June 6, at Oakland Arena, opening her Eternal Sunshine tour<\/a> with a 23-song production built around her latest album and the complicated business of moving on.<\/p>\n Ariana Grande: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, June 9-10. Oakland Arena, 7000 S. Coliseum Way, Oakland. 510-569-2121. www.ticketmaster.com<\/a><\/p>\n Local news organizations, including the Chronicle, were not credentialed to review opening night. But national outlets<\/a> that attended described a lavish, theatrical comeback<\/a> that leaned heavily on \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d while giving fans the first look at one of the year\u2019s biggest pop tours.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s opener marked the start of a multi-city tour that places Grande in arenas for multiple nights in select cities rather than sending her to a new city after each show.<\/p>\n Grande is scheduled to return to Oakland Arena on Tuesday-Wednesday, June 9-10, completing a three-night Bay Area run. Her last major tour, the Sweetener World Tour, wound down at San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center in December 2019 before ending days later in Southern California.<\/p>\n San Francisco Chronicle Logo<\/p>\n Make us a Preferred Source to get more of our news when you search.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add Preferred Source<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Grande\u2019s Bay Area takeover started before she ever reached Oakland Arena. On Thursday, June 4, fans lined up around the block outside her popup store<\/a> on Powell Street in San Francisco, hoping to buy apparel, albums and other merchandise ahead of the concerts.<\/p>\n Since the Sweetener World Tour, Grande has moved in and out of the center of pop culture, releasing her 2020 album \u201cPositions,\u201d starring as Glinda in both installments of \u201cWicked\u201d<\/a> and returning with \u201cEternal Sunshine,\u201d her seventh studio album about memory, heartbreak and self-protection. Onstage, according to reviews of the Oakland show, she built the concert around those same themes.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The production unfolded in five acts<\/a>, with Grande moving through a visual world of flooded rooms, damaged houses and eerie dreamscapes<\/a>. Reviewers noted the show\u2019s clear connection to the memory-erasure premise of the 2004 sci-fi rom-com \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\u201d giving the concert a narrative shape<\/a> beyond a standard arena-pop set.<\/p>\n Grande opened with \u201cYes, And?,\u201d followed by \u201cPositions,\u201d \u201cDandelion\u201d and \u201cThe Boy Is Mine.\u201d The early sequence placed her recent work at the center of the night rather than treating it as a bridge to older hits.<\/p>\n Her voice remained the main attraction, according to reviews. Even with dancers, video interludes, costume changes and elaborate staging, the strongest moments reportedly came when Grande stood still and sang.<\/p>\n \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d served as one of the night\u2019s early centerpieces, setting the emotional terms for a show less interested in nostalgia than in reintroducing Grande after years away from touring.<\/p>\n The middle stretch broadened the set. \u201cJust Like Magic\u201d brought in the \u201cPositions\u201d era, while \u201cThank U, Next\u201d and \u201c7 Rings\u201d reportedly drew some of the loudest reactions of the night.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Other older songs, including \u201cOne Last Time,\u201d \u201cDangerous Woman,\u201d \u201cHoneymoon Avenue,\u201d \u201cRain on Me\u201d and \u201cInto You,\u201d gave the concert flashes of a career-spanning set without turning it into a night of greatest hits.<\/p>\n But the \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d material dominated. Songs including \u201cImperfect for You,\u201d \u201cWarm,\u201d \u201cTwilight Zone,\u201d \u201cPast Life\u201d and \u201cHampstead\u201d gave the show a quieter, more interior mood, pulling it away from the easy rush of a hits parade.<\/p>\n \u201cHampstead,\u201d performed with minimal staging, was singled out by reviewers as one of the night\u2019s more intimate moments \u2014 a small song allowed to hold its own inside a massive arena.<\/p>\n A damaged house served as the central image on the stage, shifting across the night from wreckage toward renewal. Dancers moved around Grande as part of the show\u2019s larger themes of memory, desire and conflict, while the choreography left space for her vocals to carry the emotional weight.<\/p>\n Near the end, Grande looked ahead with \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me,\u201d from her forthcoming album \u201cPetal.\u201d The placement made the song feel less like a promotional preview and more like a hint of where she may be headed next.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n By the time she reached \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)\u201d and \u201cSupernatural,\u201d the shape of the night was clear. Grande did not return to touring by simply picking up where she left off. She built the Oakland opener around the years in between.<\/p>\n Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine Tour setlist<\/p>\n Ariana Grande opened her Eternal Sunshine tour at Oakland Arena with a 23-song set that leaned into her latest era while revisiting older hits.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n 5. \u201cSaturn Returns Interlude\u201d<\/p>\n 6. \u201cEternal Sunshine\u201d<\/p>\n 9. \u201cImperfect for You\u201d<\/p>\n 17. \u201cDangerous Woman\u201d<\/p>\n 18. \u201cHoneymoon Avenue\u201d<\/p>\n 21. \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d<\/p>\n 22. \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)\u201d<\/p>\n