Ariana Grande opened The Eternal Sunshine Tour at Oakland Arena on June 6 with a 23-song set that turned her first show in six years into a nearly two-hour return. The night moved through a lavish five-act production, with repeated outfit changes and a catwalk Grande worked from start to finish.
The opening performance gave fans the clearest sign yet of how Grande wants this era to sound on stage. She leaned on fan favorites including Thank U, Next and One Last Time, but she also used the show to preview new music from her eighth studio album, Petal, with a first taste of the single Hate That I Made You Love Me. Petal is due July 31, and its appearance in an opening-night set built around Eternal Sunshine gave the concert a second, less expected center of gravity.
That matters because the tour is officially tied to Eternal Sunshine, Grande’s 2024 album, along with the deluxe version released last year. On paper, this was a victory lap for a record that had already been in circulation. Onstage, it looked more like a reset. Grande has not toured for six years, and the Oakland opener made clear she is returning with a bigger production and a broader songbook than the album name on the marquee might suggest.
There was still one unresolved piece of the night: the full 23-song ariana grande setlist. Grande showed enough to make the shape of the tour obvious — a long, polished arena show built for movement and spectacle — but the complete running order has become part of the anticipation around the rest of the run. The North American leg continues through August, before a 10-night stand at London’s O2 Arena late in the month, where the same question will follow her to the next stage.
