Olivia Rodrigo Announces 2024 Arena World Tour with the Breeders, Chappell Roan, PinkPantheress 

American singer and actor Olivia Rodrigo poses on the red carpet during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, 12 September 2023. (EPA)
American singer and actor Olivia Rodrigo poses on the red carpet during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, 12 September 2023. (EPA)
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Olivia Rodrigo Announces 2024 Arena World Tour with the Breeders, Chappell Roan, PinkPantheress 

American singer and actor Olivia Rodrigo poses on the red carpet during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, 12 September 2023. (EPA)
American singer and actor Olivia Rodrigo poses on the red carpet during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, 12 September 2023. (EPA)

Olivia Rodrigo is going on tour, and she’s bringing the next generation of pop talent — as well as a beloved ‘90s alt-rock band — with her.

In 2024, Rodrigo will be joined by funk-and-soul up-and-comer Remi Wolf, dark pop princess Chappell Roan, song of the summer contender PinkPantheress and perhaps most surprisingly, the Breeders (fronted by the Pixies’ Kim Deal), across a 57-date run.

The tour announcement Wednesday follows the release last week of Rodrigo’s highly anticipated and critically celebrated sophomore album, “GUTS.” It also comes a day after she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The GUTS World Tour, Rodrigo’s first-ever arena tour, kicks off on Feb. 23, in Palm Springs, California, at the Acrisure Arena. It will hit most major cities in North America and Europe before returning stateside and closing out with two nights at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles County that August.

The singer will also sell a limited number of $20 (or the local currency equivalent, plus taxes and applicable fees) Silver Star Tickets in an attempt to make attending her concert more affordable. Those must be purchased in pairs, with a limit of two per purchase, and will allot seats located next to one another.

According to a press release, standard tickets will range from $49.50-$199.50 (plus taxes and fees) in the US.



Oasis’s ‘Definitely, Maybe’ Tops Charts Again, 30 Years after Release

A fan photographs a mural of Liam and Noel Gallagher of British band Oasis near Sifters Records in Manchester, Britain, 29 August 2024. (EPA)
A fan photographs a mural of Liam and Noel Gallagher of British band Oasis near Sifters Records in Manchester, Britain, 29 August 2024. (EPA)
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Oasis’s ‘Definitely, Maybe’ Tops Charts Again, 30 Years after Release

A fan photographs a mural of Liam and Noel Gallagher of British band Oasis near Sifters Records in Manchester, Britain, 29 August 2024. (EPA)
A fan photographs a mural of Liam and Noel Gallagher of British band Oasis near Sifters Records in Manchester, Britain, 29 August 2024. (EPA)

Oasis's debut album "Definitely, Maybe" returned to the top of the UK charts on Friday 30 years after its release, amid fan excitement over the British band's reunion concerts next year.

"Definitely, Maybe" went straight to No.1 when it came out in 1994, and the record went back to the top spot, boosted by the release of a 30th anniversary deluxe edition.

The Official Charts Company said "Definitely, Maybe" enjoyed a "408% week-on-week uplift" and topped the vinyl albums charts, with more than half of its weekly total coming from vinyl sales.

Oasis also took the No. 3 and 4 spots in the albums chart with compilation album "Time Flies... (1994-2009)" and 1996 record "(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?".

Oasis, who last topped the UK album chart in 2010, announced two extra concert dates on Wednesday for their comeback tour due to huge demand from fans desperate to see the band live for the first time in 15 years.

The band split in 2009 when lead guitarist and main songwriter Noel Gallagher said he could no longer work with singer Liam, his brother, after numerous public spats.

Thousands of fans queued for hours online last Saturday to get their hands on tickets for the summer shows in Britain and Ireland, only to find that prices had jumped in a "dynamic pricing" scheme.

Many thought they would pay the advertised rate of 148.50 pounds ($194.74) but ended up paying more than double at 355.20 pounds.

Britain's competition watchdog on Thursday launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over the sale of the tickets and whether it may have breached consumer protection law.

At Thursday's Mercury Prize music awards in London, the "dynamic pricing" was a hot topic.

"(I) love Oasis.... (I) hate dynamic pricing," Irish singer-songwriter CMAT told Reuters. "No one should be priced out of live music."

British-Liberian singer-songwriter Cat Burns said she hoped change would come from the furor. "There's been a few situations where this has happened so I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back."