Halsey's Triumphant Return: Badlands Anniversary Tour and Advocacy

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Halsey has seized headlines in recent days with the blockbuster announcement of her Back to Badlands 2025-2026 international tour, a milestone celebration marking the 10th anniversary of her debut album BADLANDS. According to Live Nation and confirmed by Consequence and multiple entertainment outlets, the tour launches on October 14 with a high-profile opening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, a fittingly dramatic nod to the album’s cult legacy. The tour will hit major North American cities like Boston, Chicago, and New York before going global with stops in Mexico City, key European capitals, the UK—where she will play storied venues including Manchester’s Aviva Studios and Brixton Academy—then wrapping with a trio of shows in Australia scheduled for February 2026.

Ticket presales for superfans kicked off on September 2, and general sales begin September 5. The response online has been electric with fans flooding social media to share nostalgia for BADLANDS, which is one of the few albums in history where every track achieved RIAA Gold, Platinum, or Multi-Platinum status according to Dork magazine and ABC Audio. As part of the anniversary celebration, Halsey is also releasing a comprehensive BADLANDS anthology—available on vinyl and digital streaming platforms August 29—featuring a 3xLP “Decades Edition” packed with orchestral versions, demos, and rarities, as reported by Consequence and KS95.

Business news has also kept Halsey in focus, with her recent For My Last Trick tour, launched in support of her 2024 album The Great Impersonator, described by Variety as “one of the most ambitious pop tours of the year” and the best-selling tour of her career. Industry insiders at Factory International and Dork highlight that Halsey’s live draw remains undiminished as she returns triumphantly to the arena circuit.

On the philanthropic and public appearance front, the Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle covered her standout moment at the amfAR Venezia charity gala during the Venice Film Festival. Halsey not only bid for the gala’s top auction lot—a Julian Schnabel portrait—but spoke movingly on the red carpet about living with two autoimmune diseases, sharing that the nonprofit’s AIDS and autoimmune research is deeply personal for her. As she puts it, amfAR’s work “has never been closer to home than it is right now.”

Between the global tour, nostalgia-fueled vinyl drops, critical and commercial recognition for her past and present work, and heartfelt advocacy on the world’s most glamorous stages, Halsey has dominated recent pop culture discourse with substance and star power. No verified reports of new personal relationships or controversies have surfaced in major media during this window. All eyes are firmly on her music and message as BADLANDS turns ten.

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