The shows announced will be played in June this year in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London. Young performed ‘Messy’ at the Grammy Awards in January and also played a show at the London Palladium last week but this will mark something of a trial tour for the young singer-songwriter, as she wrote “As tempting as it is to jump into a big tour I’m going to continue taking things slowly despite feeling so ready to perform more”.

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Other musicians including Spice Girls’ Mel B, Sasha Keable and CMAT shared support for Young, as well as Lily Allen who commented “In awe of you”.

Young’s song’s known to be vulnerable, honest and an unguarded reflection of her feelings can be attributed to her influences Joni Mitchell, Frank Ocean and SZA. Young has enjoyed a successful 2026 so far, picking up the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance for her breakout hit ‘Messy’, followed by the Brit Award for Breakthrough Artist in February, these next run of shows will see Young return to performing following a brief stint away.

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The 25 year old suffered technical difficulties and health problems during a run of shows – including Coachella in April 2025 and a few months later at the Capital Summertime Ball. Following this, Young collapsed at New York’s All Things Go Festival in September 2025 and subsequently cancelled her upcoming tour dates to focus on her health.

The London born singer-songwriter attended to the BRIT school and released her debut single ‘6 Feet Under’ in October 2019, which was followed by her debut EP ‘Intro’. She was signed to Island Records in March 2021 and subsequently released her debut album ‘My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely’ in May 2023 – the album referencing heavily her experience with her schizoaffective disorder. Her sophomore album ‘This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway’ released in June 2024 featured singles ‘Conceited’, ‘Wish You Were Dead’ and ‘Messy’. Her most recent album ‘I’m Only F**king Myself’ was released in September 2025 and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. Fans are eagerly awaiting the live experience of her latest album.

The dates are as follows:
June 10th – Manchester
June 13th – Birmingham
June 16th – Glasgow
June 18th – London

Fans can access pre-sale access by joining Young’s mailing list

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This success follows a year of hardship for Young who encountered a myriad of problems during performances, including personal and emotional issues as well as technical difficulties in 2025. At the All Things Go Festival in September 2025, Young collapsed on stage and subsequently cancelled her upcoming tour dates in order to prioritise her health. She seems to be on the road to recovery, performing at the Grammy Awards earlier this year.

Ahead of the ceremony, Young was tied for most nominations at this year’s Brits with Olivia Dean, however Dean went on to win four out of the five that the pair were up for, including Pop Act, British Artist, Album of the Year and Song of the Year for ‘The Act of Loving’ and ‘Rein Me In’, her collaboration with Sam Fender respectively.

Young was signed to Island Records in March 2021 and released her debut album ‘My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely’ in May 2023. The singer-songwriter released her sophomore album ‘This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway’ followed in June 2024 and her most recent album ‘I’m Only F**king Myself’ was released in September 2025 and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart.

Her breakout single ‘Messy’ was met by critical acclaim but took eight months to reach number one in the UK. With ‘Messy’, Young took home the Grammy Award earlier this year for Best Pop Solo Performance. Following her win last night, fans took to twitter to celebrate Young’s wins.

Starting the month off with a Grammy and ending with BRIT…. Oh Lola Young the winner you are pic.twitter.com/N80AJW3I4A

— lola young’s defense lawyer (@BoscosSlut) February 28, 2026

The 46th edition of the Brit Awards took place at the Co-op live in Manchester, away from London from the first time in the show’s history. Hosted by Jack Whitehall, the ceremony saw performances from Harry Styles, Rosalia, Raye and Sombr amongst others. Mark Ronson was recognised for his Outstanding Contribution for Music, Noel Gallagher as Songwriter of the Year and PinkPantheress and Producer of the Year.

Other winners include Sam Fender winning his fifth Brit award in total, his third for Best Alternative/Rock Act and his first for Song of The Year shared with Dean. Dave won Hip-Hop/Grime/Rap Act following the release of ‘The Boy Who Played The Harp’ and Wolf Alice for British Group.

The ceremony also included the award of the Lifetime Achievement award to the late Ozzy Osbourne which was received by his wife and daughter Sharon and Kelly Osbourne.

The London Palladium date is especially symbolic for Young, who built her reputation in small venues and open‑mic nights before graduating to international stages, major television appearances and now, winning a Grammy. A storied West End theatre more commonly associated with legacy acts and variety spectaculars, the Palladium offers a dramatically larger space for an artist who once spoke about the grind of pub gigs and the challenge of nurturing her voice while managing schizoaffective disorder and recurring vocal cord cysts. In 2025, videos of Young passing out on stage circulated online, with Young and her team afterwards announcing a hiatus to rest and focus on her mental health. Her return is a hopeful sign that Young is doing better, fueled by resilience.

Young’s return also comes after a whirlwind run of releases and accolades that have made her one of the most talked‑about British artists of her generation. Since releasing her early EPs ‘Intro’ and ‘Renaissance’, she has steadily expanded her sound, culminating in the albums ‘My Mind Wanders’, ‘Sometimes Leaves Completely’ and ‘This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway’, the latter boosted by the viral success of ‘Messy’ and a high‑profile feature on Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’. Her blend of raw lyricism and classic songwriting has drawn comparisons to predecessors like Adele, while winning her spaces on stages from The Graham Norton Show, Coachella and the Brit Awards. Most recently, Young performed a stripped-back, piano-driven version of her viral single ‘Messy’ at the Grammys, before winning best pop solo performance.​

The Palladium show is expected to showcase this arc in real time, pairing intimate piano ballads and early fan favourites with the more muscular, pop‑leaning material that has defined her recent rise. For fans, the concert offers a rare chance to hear the full breadth of her music catalogue that now spans multiple projects, chart‑topping singles and award‑winning performances.

While full details of the production, setlist and possible guest appearances have yet to be announced, anticipation is already high among her growing international fanbase, many of whom credit Young’s honest discussions of mental health with helping them through their own struggles. With her return to one of London’s most prestigious stages, Lola Young appears intent on turning her resilience into a renewed live presence, proving that her recent chart success with critics is only the beginning of a longer story.

Bad Bunny scored one of the night’s most coveted trophies, taking home Album of the Year for ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos‘ further cementing his status as a crossover force who moves freely between Latin music and the mainstream pop charts. The Puerto Rican star arrived at the show with six nominations and left having made history for Latin representation in the Grammys’ top categories. His win capped a year in which Spanish-language releases continued to dominate global streaming and festival lineups.

Kendrick Lamar reaffirmed his place as one of rap’s defining artists, converting a leading tally of nine nominations into multiple wins across the evening. He took Record of the Year for ‘Luther’, his collaboration with SZA, extending a run of critically acclaimed projects that have bridged commercial success and social commentary. Lamar’s victories follow his clean sweep at the 2025 Grammys and underscore the Recording Academy’s continued recognition of his ambitious studio work.

Pop icon Lady Gaga also enjoyed a strong night, collecting Best Pop Vocal Album for ‘Mayhem‘ a project that saw her return to high-energy, theatrical pop after recent project in film and jazz. She was also in the running for Song of the Year with ‘Abracadabra’ highlighting her continued presence in the Grammys’ most competitive fields. While she missed out on that top songwriting prize, Gaga’s wins reinforced her reputation as one of the ceremony’s most reliable performers and nominees.

For British artists, the 2026 ceremony proved especially significant. London singer-songwriter Olivia Dean was named Best New Artist, marking a major breakthrough on the global stage after several years of critical acclaim at home and steady chart growth. Fellow UK talent Lola Young won Best Pop Solo Performance for ‘Messy’ a confessional track that beat out previous Grammy favourites including Sabrina Carpenter and Gaga in one of the night’s most closely watched categories.

Beyond the headline names, the winners’ list showcased an eclectic mix of genres and generations. Billie Eilish took Song of the Year for ‘Wildflower’, while British veterans The Cure won Best Alternative Music Album for ‘Songs of a Lost World‘ reflecting how legacy acts and emerging stars continue to coexist on the Grammy stage. With nearly 100 awards handed out across pop, rap, rock, R&B, dance, global and classical fields, the 2026 edition painted a picture of an industry still dominated by a handful of marquee names but increasingly open to fresh perspectives from across the world.

Their findings display a significant increase of 4.9 per cent from 2024 in both streaming and sales, with a 13.3 per cent rise in vinyl sales, and shockingly nearly an 80% boost in cassette tape sales. The BPI uses a metric they call “album equivalent sales” which uses data on physical and digital sales to create an approximate number of albums sold overall. 2025 produced equivalent sales of 210.3 million albums for UK artists, an impressive growth from last year, but considerably smaller than 2024s 9.7 per cent gain over 2023.

The BPI’s report, which uses data from the Official Chart Company, also recorded a 5.5 per cent increase in total streaming figures to 210.3 billion total streams, a 5.5 percent increase from last year, and it marks the first year that has amassed more than 200 billion streams. Streaming has again established its dominance as the primary source for music listeners, occupying 89.3 per cent of all music access.

As for physical media, their renaissance continues, with the exception of the less-nostalgic compact disc. CD sales dropped 7.9 per cent, still showing the highest physical media numbers of 9.7 million units, but in its place demand for vinyls and cassettes surged. The stated gain of almost 80 per cent cassette sales may only amount to a total of 330,000 tapes, but when added to the 7.6 million vinyls sold and the 9.7 million CDs, it led to a cumulative increase of 1.4 per cent and a final total of 17.6 million physical copies.

Oasis’s 2025 live tour took hold of the British consciousness

There have been several significant events and releases that have garnered a lot of the spotlight on British music, most notably this year’s Oasis reunion tour. New albums from established performers like Sam Fender have yielded strong sales, and streaming has driven massive attention on a new wave of female breakthrough artists, including PinkPantheress, Olivia Dean and Lola Young.

Certainly, the Gallagher brothers have made the headlines non-stop since they revealed they had set aside their differences in 2024. In the wake of their tour selling out every date, Oasis’s 2010 compilation album ‘Time Flies… 1994-2009’ shot to number one in the Official UK Album Charts again multiple times throughout this year, and finished the year as the fourth most popular album.

Sam Fender’s album ‘People Watching’ earned him the 2025 Mercury Prize, and was the only original release by a UK artist to reach the end of year album charts. Also this year was ‘Even In Arcadia’, the latest release from our own Sleep Token, the most popular and mysterious masked band in rock and heavy metal. Both albums have earned their respective creators international praise and attention, which has showed in both streaming and digital sales.

And finally, the bright young stars of the new era. Olivia Dean broke new records this year when her single ‘Man I Need’ and album ‘The Art Of Loving’ topped both of their respective charts in the same week. Newcomer Lola Young’s ‘Messy’ was the second most popular single of the entire year, an incredible feat for a new artist.

Outside of the UK, Taylor Swift claimed both the most popular album for the second consecutive year, and the best selling vinyl for the fourth year in a row, with her album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’.

The 24-year-old South London artist, known for tracks like “Messy” and “One Thing,” was performing at Forest Hills Stadium when she lost her balance and fell backwards on stage, prompting concern from fans and crew. She was unable to complete the set, and her scheduled appearance the following day in Washington DC was also pulled.

Now, in a statement shared via social media, Young confirmed she’s stepping away from the spotlight for the time being. She cited the need to prioritise her health and wellbeing, and expressed gratitude to fans for their ongoing support. Ticket holders for upcoming shows have been promised full refunds.

The post, which was shared three days after her collapse, says: 

“I’m going away for a while. It pains me to say I have to cancel everything for the foreseeable future. Thank you for all the love and support. I’m so sorry to let anyone down who has bought a ticket to see me, it hurts me more than you know.”

“Obviously you will be entitled to a full refund.”

“I really hope you’ll give me a second chance once I’ve had some time to work on myself and come back stronger. Love you all, Lola x.”

The comment section was full of fans and celebrities alike showing love to the artist. Stormzy, Teddy Swims and Rachel Chinouriori were amongst the supportive messages.

The cancellations will include the artists’ gigs in  the UK which were set to take place this month.

Young’s recent work hasn’t gone unnoticed — her music video for “One Thing” has just been shortlisted for Best Pop Video at the 2025 UK Music Video Awards.

Young has been steadily gaining momentum over the past few years, known for her raw lyricism, genre-blurring sound and emotionally charged performances. While the sudden hiatus may come as a disappointment to many, there’s hope she’ll return stronger when ready.

No new dates have been confirmed thus far.

Following her set at Glastonbury, Lola Young has confirmed a UK tour for later this year, playing three shows in October, firstly in Manchester, then Birmingham, before finishing in London.

UK! to get pre-sale tickets, pre-order any format of ‘I’m Only F**king Myself’ from my store before 10am BST monday 7 july, link in my bio.
general sale on thursday 10th july – 10am local!

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— LOLA YOUNG (@lolayounggg) July 2, 2025

The tour will come ahead of the release of her upcoming album, “I’m Only F**king Myself“, due to drop this September.

Young has recently experienced a surge in popularity, with her hit single ‘Messy’, which topped the UK charts, and in April, was announced by Official Charts as the biggest song of 2025. In May, she won the coveted Ivor Novello Award for Rising Star. In an interview with NME, Lola Young discussed the success of Messy:

“It’s weird for me talking about my own song that I wrote from my past experience in a way that sounds like it’s not me talking about it. I just wrote it from a really personal place and it can sometimes be retriggering hearing that song because it was so intense. I’m out of that place now, out of that difficult time in my life.

“I think it’s just a relatable song. A lot of people don’t feel like they’re enough for somebody, they don’t feel like they’ll ever win.”

The UK dates are wedged between a world tour for the South London singer, who will take to the stage across Europe this July, and then North America in September, November and December.

See the dates for Lola Young’s UK and world tour below:

LOLA YOUNG WORLD TOUR

JULY
3rd – Open’er Festival, Gdynia, Poland
4th – Rock Werchter, Leuven, Belgium
5th – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
17th – Gurtenfestival, Bern, Switzerland
18th – Lollapalooza Paris, Paris, France

AUGUST
7th – Øya Festival, Oslo, Norway
9th – Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
10th – Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland
14th – Paredes de Coura, Praia do Taboão, Portugal
16th – MS Dockville, Hamburg, Germany
17th – Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands

SEPTEMBER
27th – All Things Go Festival, Queens, New York
28th – All Things Go Festival, Columbia, MD

OCTOBER
6th – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
9th – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
15th – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK

NOVEMBER
1st – History, Toronto, ON
2nd – History, Toronto, ON
4th – Roadrunner, Boston, MA
5th – Terminal 5, New York City, NY
6th – Terminal 5, New York City, NY
8th – The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
9th – The Anthem, Washington, DC
11th – The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN
12th – Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
15th – Corona Capital, Mexico City
19th – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX
21st – The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
24th – The Salt Shed, Chicago, IL
25th – Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN
28th – The Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
29th – The Union Event Center, Salt Lake City, UT

DECEMBER
1st – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, Vancouver, BC
2nd – WAMU Theater at Lumen Field, Seattle, WA
4th – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
6th – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
7th – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA

Tickets go on sale Thursday 10 July. You will be able to find them here.

Raised in a musical family, the singer was introduced to the music scene early on, beginning formal lessons at the age of six. At the age of eighteen, Young was signed to Island Records, opening the door to multiple opportunities. Lola Young gained massive success through her hit song ‘Messy’, a track on her ‘This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway’ album released last year, which skyrocketed on social media through the help of TikTok, with over a million posts using her sound. Young recently released a single titled ‘One Thing’, peaking at the number 20 spot on the UK singles charts and climbing to her top three songs on Spotify. Her success of ‘Messy’ and ‘One Thing’ has allowed Young to gain deserved attention for her talent after years of being unheard of and ‘underrated’. 

Young is currently on tour in Europe and opened for Billie Eilish’s ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ tour this week on 10 and 11 June They performed at the Accor Arena in Paris, France, with an audience of 45,000 fans. Young’s set list included songs ‘Conceited’, ‘Big Brown Eyes’, ‘Walk On By’, ‘Messy’, and her new single, ‘One Thing’. Billie Eilish gave a special shout-out to Young after opening her tour, explaining that she loves her song ‘Conceited’. Eilish performed popular songs ‘CHIHIRO’, ‘THE GREATEST’, ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’, and ‘What Was I Made For?’.  

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Lola Young posted a series of photos and videos from her Paris performance, quoting lyrics from one of Billie’s famous songs, ‘I had a dream I got everything I wanted…’, thanking the singer for a dream come true. 

Lola Young and Billie Eilish look amazing in new selfie together. pic.twitter.com/47C4GegLWk

— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) June 12, 2025

Lola Young’s upcoming performance includes Manchester, London, Belgium, Denmark, as well as being scheduled to perform at the famous Glastonbury festival later this month. She will also be touring in North America in the autumn. Tickets can be found here. 

Billie Eilish is touring in Europe this summer, with performances in Glasgow, Manchester, and six back-to-back sold-out nights in London. She is also coming back to North America in the autumn. Find more tour information here.

Charli XCX picked up the prize for the Ivor Novello ‘Songwriter of the Year’. In her down-to-earth, humorous manner, she demonstrated her “songwriting genius” by quoting the lyrics for her song ‘Club Classics: “I wanna dance to me, me, me / When I go to the club, club, club.”

She joked, “I’m sure you all agree, I am hardly Bob Dylan. But one thing I certainly do is commit to the bit.”

Charli’s win adds another notch under her belt, after an incredible year of critical acclaim and new heights of fame following ‘Brat‘. As well as her new Ivor, she won big at the Brits earlier this year, taking home five awards, as well as three at the Grammys.

Lola Young managed to claim the ‘Rising Star’ award, after the success of her breakthrough single ‘Messy’, which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the UK charts. She’s since performed and been nominated at the Brits, played at Coachella, and is set to take to the stage at Glastonbury later this summer.

After winning the award, she told the BBC: “This is such a big moment for the kid in my bedroom that was 10 years old, writing songs on her guitar. To be here now is such an honour, and such a gives me such a warm feeling.”

Rapper/producer/songwriter Berwyn also saw victory last night, grabbing the award for ‘Best Album’, with his debut release, ‘Who Am I’. The judges praised the record and its “vivid storytelling that transcends generations, race and social differences, offering a voice to those often unseen by society”.

This year’s awards saw 22 songwriters and composers collecting prizes in 14 categories. While 70% of the winners this year were first-timers, it wasn’t only new talent that was being celebrated. Rock heroes U2 became the first Irish band to win the ‘Fellowship of the Ivor Novello Songwriting Academy’.

U2 performed tonight at the Ivor Novello awards, seen here performing an”Angel of Harlem”, we’ll have a more complete report later. And yes, that’s Larry Mullen performing with them on stage.

Video clip here via Universal: https://t.co/RaNzIfRTeg #U2 pic.twitter.com/IsurzO39VH

— U2Songs.com (@u2songs) May 22, 2025

Accepting the academy fellowship, Bono spoke on the strength and power that music can have: “Songs can be arrows through time if they come from the right place,” he said.

“They can fly higher and farther, last longer, hit harder. They can pierce the hardest armour of the human heart.

“I don’t know if they can change the world, but they changed us.”

As the band played an acoustic version of their political anthem, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, Bono asked for peace in the on-going Israel-Gaza conflict. The singer said: “Hamas release the hostages. Stop the war. Israel be released from Benjamin Netanyahu.

“All of you protect our aid workers, they are the best of us.”

Robbie Williams was also given the ‘PRS For Music Icon’ award. The British pop legend has recently released a single called ‘Rocket’ from his upcoming record, ‘Britpop‘. Honouring a career going back to his beginnings with boyband Take That in the 90’s, to his high-selling solo hits like ‘Angels’, ‘Rock DJ’ and ‘Feel’, he tried to describe the feeling of taking the ‘icon’ title with him.

“When momentous things like this happen, it’s just a hodge-podge of things coming at you from the universe,” he said backstage.

“It’s self-doubt and self-hatred mixed with ego and delusion and audacity.

“So it’s very difficult to put your finger on what it feels like in the moment, other than you’re supposed to say, ‘I’m very grateful’. And I am.”

You can find the full Ivor Novello awards winners list below.

Songwriter of the year

Charli XCX

Academy Fellowship

U2

Music icon award

Robbie Williams

Best album

Berwyn – Who Am I

Best contemporary song

Sans Soucis – Circumnavigating Georgia

Best song musically and lyrically

Orla Gartland – Mine

Most performed work

Myles Smith – Stargazing

Rising star

Lola Young

Best original film score

The Substance – Raffertie

Best original video game score

Farewell North – John Konsolakis

Best television soundtrack

True Detective: Night Country – Vince Pope

Outstanding song collection

Bloc Party

Special international

Brandon Flowers

Visionary award

Self Esteem

Young shared her inspiration for ‘Messy’ with Capital FM, revealing the meaning behind the song as a vulnerable collection of moments from different relationships and her struggle with ADHD. She says: “The song is an ADHD anthem because it’s hard living with ADHD and you don’t actually see mess.”

‘One Thing’ continues Young’s unapologetic authenticity, though takes a different subject direction. She describes the track as “liberating and sexy and freeing” in an Instagram post with a sensual music video teaser. Though the song seems a diversion from her vulnerable past tracks, she goes on to explain the difficulties mentioned in the song of “s*x and passion without strings needing to be attached, as its something i struggle achieving most of the time.”

The singer also promises more emotional tracks to come in her upcoming album.

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Young has shared an acoustic snippet of one of the emotional tracks that she’s been working on. Many are hoping this will be released in the upcoming album.  

 

 

 

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‘One Thing’ shows a confident perspective on sex and relationships in a way that Young had not yet expressed in her discography so far. In an interview with NME she shared “I wanted to make a song and music video that is thought-provoking and highlights sex being both a fun and light thing, not always meaningful, as well as showing how gender roles can be reversed.”

The song debuted at Coachella and fans loved it, declaring it “song of the summer”.

@culted Unreleased music from Lola Young at weekend 2 of Coachella : @coachella #lolayoung #coachella2025 #weekend2 #coachella #fyp #messy #foryoupage ♬ original sound – CULTED

Young has been nominated for the 2025 Ivor Novello Awards and will be performing next at Reading & Leeds Festival in August, Parklife in June and Rock Werchter in July.