Ariana Grande Tour Rehearsal Revives Dangerous Woman After 7 Years
Ariana Grande performed Dangerous Woman during ariana grande tour rehearsals on Wednesday, May 6, giving her first run-through of the 2016 song since the Sweetener World Tour. The move arrives as she prepares for the Eternal Sunshine Tour, her first trek since 2019, and it points to a setlist that could lean on the catalog fans have waited the longest to hear live again.
May 6 Rehearsal Run
Grande wrote on Instagram, "Our first time running this song since swt ♡ happy ten years of dangerous woman, happy one month til tour, happy petal preorder ꕤ｡˚ see you in a month i love you so much," tying the rehearsal to both the album’s 10-year mark and the countdown to the tour. For anyone buying a ticket to the North American dates, that’s the clearest sign yet that the 2016 track is in play for the live show.
Dangerous Woman was released on May 20, 2016, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 175,000 total album units. The title track reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for best pop solo performance at the 2017 Grammy Awards. Those numbers explain why the song still carries setlist weight: it is one of the older entries in the show that can pull audience memory without needing any reset or reintroduction.
Oakland to London
The Eternal Sunshine Tour begins in Oakland, Calif., on June 6 and will hit Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Montreal, New York City and other North American cities before ending with 10 shows at London’s O2 Arena in September. Grande last toured on the Sweetener World Tour in 2019, so the rehearsal gives the new run a direct line back to her last major live cycle.
The tour also sits inside a larger release schedule: Petal is slated to arrive on July 31 as the follow-up to 2024’s Eternal Sunshine, which topped the Billboard 200 and produced her eighth and ninth Hot 100 No. 1 hits with "Yes, And?" and "We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)." For ticket holders, the practical takeaway is simple — the rehearsal makes Dangerous Woman a live possibility, and the setlist may end up balancing a 2016 fan favorite against the newer material Grande is still actively rolling out.
