Happier Than Ever, The World Tour was the sixth headlining concert tour and first full arena tour by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, in support of her second studio album Happier Than Ever (2021). The tour commenced on February 3, 2022, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and concluded on April 2, 2023 at the Arena VFG in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Background On May 21, 2021, the tour was announced through a YouTube video posted to her official page. In the short clip, the artist sits alone in the auditorium, while at the end of the visual, the camera points to Eilish's official website. Subsequently, Eilish posted further announcements through other social media pages such as Twitter. The tour used Ticketmaster's Verified fan program in North America. It initially consisted of 50 dates (32 in North America and 18 in Europe). Tickets sold out quickly, leading to the addition of more dates. A third and fourth leg, with locations in Oceania and Latin America, respectively, were also added to the tour.
Eilish worked with Apple Music to exclusively host a film of one of the concerts, specifically one of her shows at the O2 Arena in London. She billed the film as a way for fans who missed out on tickets to experience the tour for themselves, wanting more people to recognize her for her showmanship live. Eilish previewed the film by sharing performances of two tracks from the album—"Therefore I Am" and "I Didn't Change My Number"—through her YouTube account. An extended cut of the film was also released in limited cinemas worldwide on January 27, 2023. It was directed by Sam Wrench.
Concert synopsis The show begins with strobing lights, white backdrops, whilst Eilish is catapulted from under the stage to perform "Bury a Friend", accompanied by a drummer, Andrew Marshall, and her brother, Finneas, on guitar. It is followed by the "slinkier" and "hard-hitting" track "I Didn't Change My Number". Next, she sings "NDA", while the stage projects a street and the monitors display cars swerving, later transitioning to "Therefore I Am", when the screens turn red. The singer proceeds with a "hypnotic" shortened rendition of "My Strange Addiction" and a "downshifted" and shortened version of "Idontwannabeyouanymore" before transitioning to "Lovely". During the shortened "You Should See Me in a Crown" performance, Eilish instructs her fans to stay still "like Squid Game" and scream as loud as they possibly can.
The "Billie Bossa Nova" performance is "turned into a libidinous rager" with backdrops projecting faceless, scantily clad dancing bodies. According to The New York Times Lindsay Zoladz, the performance of "Goldwing" is a "kinetic call-and-response number", where she asks fans to sing, and then she asks fans to sing from their lowest voice possible to their loudest voice possible. Later, she follows with the "quieter" song "Halley's Comet" on select shows. On select shows, Eilish performs "No Time to Die" next, Eilish performs "Oxytocin", which also includes a fragment of "Copycat". The artist additionally asks fans to get as low as possible, so all of them can jump at once.
To begin the tour's acoustic interlude, Finneas joins Eilish on stage so they can perform "Your Power" with guitars. In select concerts, starting with the first night at Manchester on June 7, the two debut the song "TV". Alongside "The 30th", it is part of Eilish's two-track extended play Guitar Songs, released in July 2022. She and Finneas performed "The 30th" in place of "TV" for the first time in the tour's Manila concert; Eilish remarked that "The 30th" was hard to sing for her due to its personal lyrics. When they do not perform "TV" or "The 30th", Finneas returns to the keyboard, leaving Eilish at center stage to sing "Male Fantasy" by herself. On select shows, such as the entire Australian leg, she and Finneas perform "I Love You" to start the acoustic section, mashing it up with "Your Power".
It is followed by the "Not My Responsibility" interlude, after which she segues into "Overheated", during which she is on the crane, which is featured in all shows in Australia, all shows in Europe except Pilton, and all shows in North America. After that, the singer asks the fans to do a Mexican wave with their phones in select shows, such as the entire Australian leg, then performs a mashup of "Bellyache", "Ocean Eyes", and "Bored". On the shows where she gets off the crane, she goes back to the stage, touching fans' hands as she passes by them. Upon returning back to the stage, she performs "Getting Older" on select shows, with home videos of the singer and her family being shown on the backdrops. On select shows, such as the entire Australian leg, "Getting Older" is shortened. She then performs "Lost Cause" during select shows, before she has a talk with the audience, and asks fans to hug the person next to them, and give that person a hug. She follows the talk with a performance of "When the Party's Over". For "All the Good Girls Go to Hell," the screens present the effects of climate change, such as polar bears on melting ice caps, pollution, oil spills, and wildfires. The visuals turn from flames to completely red during the song's chorus.
Eilish starts an encore with "Everything I Wanted", which is called "relatively breezy" by Keith Spera of The New Orleans Advocate. Before she starts, singing, she asks fans to give the people next to them a hug. She follows it with a performance of "Bad Guy", which sees her jumping around the stage, and confetti shooting up from the ceiling. "Happier Than Ever" is the concluding song of the show, where Finneas plays the electric guitar, and Eilish headbangs during the second half of the song. "Goodbye" plays in the background as the show's outro, where she touches fans' hands.
Set list This set list is for the show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 8, 2022. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.
"Bury a Friend" "I Didn't Change My Number" "NDA" "Therefore I Am" "My Strange Addiction" "Idontwannabeyouanymore" "Lovely" "You Should See Me in a Crown" "Billie Bossa Nova" "Goldwing" "Halley's Comet" "Oxytocin" "Ilomilo" "Your Power" "Male Fantasy" "Not My Responsibility" "Overheated" "Bellyache" "Ocean Eyes" "Bored" "Getting Older" "Lost Cause" "When the Party's Over" "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" "Everything I Wanted" "Bad Guy" "Happier Than Ever" "Goodbye"
Notes Starting on June 7, 2022, "TV" was added to the setlist. Similarly, Eilish added "The 30th" to shows in Manila, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo. Starting on December 13, 2022, "Xanny", "My Future", and "Bitches Broken Hearts" were added to the setlist. Starting on March 24, 2023, "Wish You Were Gay" was added to the setlist. Starting with the first show in Sydney, "Halley's Comet" was permanently removed from the setlist. During the first Hometown Encore show in Inglewood, Labrinth joined Eilish onstage to perform "Mount Everest" and "Never Felt So Alone". During the second Hometown Encore show in Inglewood, Dave Grohl and Phoebe Bridgers joined Eilish onstage do perform "My Hero" and "Motion Sickness". During the last Hometown Encore show in Inglewood, Khalid and Donald Glover joined Eilish onstage to perform "Lovely", "Location" and "Redbone". At all three shows, Eilish also sang a cover of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
Tour dates
+List of 2022 concerts showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, attendance, and gross revenue Date(2022) City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance RevenueFebruary 3New OrleansUnited StatesSmoothie King Center12,113 / 12,113$1,554,074February 5AtlantaState Farm ArenaTkay Maidza11,486 / 11,486$1,502,389February 6CharlotteSpectrum Center11,589 / 11,589$1,410,027February 8PittsburghPPG Paints Arena12,402 / 12,402$1,421,176February 9Washington, D.C.Capital One Arena13,367 / 13,367$1,817,846February 10State CollegeBryce Jordan Center11,453 / 11,453$1,292,145February 12BuffaloKeyBank CenterDora Jar12,161 / 12,161$1,366,921February 13PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center12,495 / 12,495$1,600,257February 15ElmontUBS Arena11,084 / 11,084 $1,574,391February 18New York CityMadison Square Garden26,976 / 26,976$3,927,430February 19February 20BostonTD Garden12,910 / 12,910$1,698,934February 22NewarkPrudential Center12,511 / 12,511$1,711,256March 8BirminghamLegacy ArenaDuckwrth10,181 / 10,181$1,400,413March 9NashvilleBridgestone Arena13,434 / 13,434 $1,833,956March 11LouisvilleKFC Yum! Center16,003 / 16,003$1,911,428March 12DetroitLittle Caesars Arena15,322 / 15,322$1,953,284March 14ChicagoUnited Center13,852 / 13,852 $1,770,396March 15Saint PaulXcel Energy Center14,924 / 14,924$1,793,012March 16OmahaCHI Health Center Omaha14,496 / 14,496 $1,748,369March 19DenverBall Arena12,862 / 12,862$1,749,222March 21Salt Lake CityVivint Arena11,689 / 11,689$1,566,407March 24VancouverCanadaRogers Arena13,154 / 13,154$1,666,407March 25SeattleUnited StatesClimate Pledge Arena28,554 / 28,554$3,980,733March 26March 29San FranciscoChase Center13,207 / 13,207$1,894,223March 30SacramentoGolden 1 Center13,579 / 13,579 $1,959,433April 1ParadiseT-Mobile Arena14,772 / 14,772$1,884,691April 2GlendaleGila River Arena27,068 / 27,068$3,758,290April 4April 6InglewoodKia Forum41,321 / 41,321$5,715,143April 8Dora JarApril 9April 16IndioEmpire Polo Club rowspan="2" rowspan="2" rowspan="2" April 23June 3BelfastNorthern IrelandThe SSE ArenaJessie Reyez9,259 / 9,549$907,993June 4DublinIreland3Arena24,304 / 24,304 $2,158,637June 5Jungle June 7ManchesterEnglandAO Arena Jessie Reyez30,643 / 30,643$2,829,606June 8JungleJune 10LondonThe O2 ArenaJessie Reyez106,803 / 106,803$10,083,194June 11June 12June 14GlasgowScotlandOVO Hydro12,803 / 12,803$1,160,754June 15BirminghamEnglandUtilita Arena13,486 / 13,486$1,266,418June 16LondonThe O2 ArenaJungleJune 18AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo DomeJessie Reyez16,439 / 16,439$1,183,385June 19FrankfurtGermanyFesthalle10,772 / 10,772$868,130June 21CologneLanxess Arena16,554 / 16,554$1,213,211June 22ParisFranceAccor Arena13,783 / 13,783$1,050,891June 24PiltonEnglandWorthy Farm rowspan="3" rowspan="3" June 25LondonThe O2 ArenaArlo ParksJune 26Girl in RedJune 28AntwerpBelgiumSportpaleisJessie Reyez20,793 / 20,793$1,472,283June 30BerlinGermanyMercedes-Benz Arena13,935 / 13,935$1,078,408July 2ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion13,000 / 13,000$1,528,765August 13PasayPhilippinesMall of Asia Arenarowspan="6" 9,515 / 9,515$1,412,663August 15SeoulSouth KoreaGocheok Sky Dome22,513 / 22,513$2,378,464August 18Kuala LumpurMalaysiaBukit Jalil National Stadium24,963 / 30,000$2,725,442August 21SingaporeSingapore National Stadium30,041 / 34,996$4,205,981August 24Pak KretThailandImpact Arena10,833 / 10,833$1,733,142August 26TokyoJapanAriake Arena10,166 / 10,166$1,408,060September 8AucklandNew ZealandSpark ArenaDora Jar36,151 / 36,151$3,579,366September 9September 10September 13SydneyAustraliaQudos Bank Arena48,049 / 48,049$5,057,316September 14September 15Sampa the GreatSeptember 17BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment Centre33,897 / 33,897$3,447,322September 18September 19Dora JarSeptember 22MelbourneRod Laver Arena54,759 / 54,759$7,483,178September 23September 24Sampa the GreatSeptember 26September 29PerthPerth Arena28,869 / 28,869$2,716,658September 30December 13InglewoodUnited StatesKia Forum rowspan="3" 42,642 / 42,642$6,038,828December 15December 16