Billie Eilish Australian tour announced for 2025

Nine-time Grammy- and dual Oscar-winner Billie Eilish will return to Australia in February 2025 to tour her coming album Hit Me Hard and Soft.

The pop superstar’s new studio album will be released on May 17. She will perform 12 dates on the east coast.

These include the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on February 18, 19, 21 and 22, Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on February 24, 25, 27 and 28, and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on March 4, 5, 7 and 8).

The Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, promoted by Live Nation and Frontier Touring in Australia, will begin in North America this September, then head to Australia, before Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Eilish, 22, first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single Ocean Eyes, written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell, with whom she still collaborates on music and live shows.

It was 2019’s Bad Guy, the song whose chorus includes a sample of the sound made by a Sydney traffic light when the light turns green at a pedestrian crossing, that changed her career.

The song, from her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, went on to win her a Grammy and debut in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No.1 in 2019, making her the first artist born in the 21st century to top the US album charts.

In Australia the song won 2019’s Triple J Hottest 100, making Eilish the first female solo artist, and the youngest act – she was 18 – to top the fan-voted poll.