Ariana Grande announces the release of her Netflix film about her Sweetener World Tour, titled ‘Excuse Me, I Love You’ on December 21.
The release date comes one day before the anniversary of the final stop of the world tour at the Los Angeles Forum. The superstar tweeted with a moving movie poster, “Dec 21st, a year after closing, the sweetener world tour is coming home to u.”
On Tuesday, she was teased that when she shared a trio of moody black-and-white stills on social media, a mysterious Netflix project involving the Sweetener World Tour was coming. Netflix’s official Twitter account replied to that with the lyrics from “R.E.M”, tweet “Excuse me, I love you.”
Arianators, not knowing what it actually means, corrected that account for leaving the “um” part from the lyrics.
From March 18 to December 22, 2019, the Sweetener World Tour circled through North America and Europe. It was the largest tour ever for Grande, yielding the highest net gross, total attendance, number of shows (97), average gross ($1.509 million), average attendance (13,699 tickets), an average career ticket price ($110.18). It supported by Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019), her fourth and fifth studio albums, which both debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 1.
With a live album titled K Bye For Now (SWT Live) on December 23, 2019, one night after the tour officially ended, she also memorialized her international jaunt. Earlier this year, her first-ever live set debuted at No. 97 on the Billboard 200.
Source: Ariana Grande, Billboard, Netflix