Billie Eilish announces world tour for new album

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Billie Eilish performing on stage in August 2023. Billie is a 22-year-old white woman with long black hair worn loose. She has a fringe to her eyebrows and wears a graphic long-sleeved blue and grey top. She holds a microphone up as she sings.Image source, Getty Images

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Billie Eilish announced a world tour, starting in Canada in September

By Riyah Collins

BBC Newsbeat

Billie Eilish has announced an 81-date world tour starting later this year.

The What Was I Made For singer confirmed dates in North America, Australia and Europe from September.

Billie previously told music website Billboard her third studio album would be her most sustainable yet and she's partnered with an environmental group to organise it.

Tickets for the tour - named after upcoming album Hit Me Hard And Soft - go on sale on 3 May.

Billie will start in Canada on 29 September before taking her show to the US in October.

She'll then head to Australia in February, arriving in Europe next April.

She has 12 UK dates, including two shows in Glasgow, six in London and four in Manchester.

For her last tour, Happier Than Ever, in 2022, Billie partnered with Reverb, a non-profit organisation that works to promote sustainability in the music industry.

Billie is a long-standing climate campaigner and she committed to making that tour "climate positive", meaning it would eliminate more emissions than it produced.

For Hit Me Hard And Soft, which is set to be released on 17 May, Billie's also announced plans to limit the impact of physical copies.

This includes making vinyl copies out of recycled vinyl with the packaging and album sleeves also made from recycled materials.

The singer has announced she would not be releasing any singles in advance, saying she wants fans to hear the album "in one go".

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