The singer also performed ‘Dance The Night’, her song she made for the award-winning movie, Barbie, where she featured as Mermaid Barbie alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Dua Lipa’s opening acts in London included Dove Cameron and Alessi Rose. 

2 SOLD OUT NIGHTS AT WEMBLEY STADIUM!! I can hardly believe it. These were the most special, unforgettable shows I’ve ever done!!!
I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. For this journey. For every single person who’s stood by me, believed in me, sung with me, danced with me, and shared… pic.twitter.com/siTHAoB4mz

— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) June 22, 2025

Dua Lipa released her most recent album, ‘Radical Optimism’, last year, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 Chart and number one on the UK Album Chart. Her lead single from the album ‘Houdini’ topped the charts in several countries. She released her first self-titled studio album, ‘Dua Lipa’, in 2017, as well as ‘Future Nostalgia’ in 2020. ‘Future Nostalgia’ gained her significant success and recognition, topping the charts in 16 countries and became one of the best-selling albums globally.  Her two singles off that album, ‘Don’t Start Now’ and ‘Levitating’, both peaked at the number two spot on Billboard and are in her top five most popular songs on Spotify. Dua Lipa set the record for the longest-charting song by a woman with ‘Levitating’ running for 77 weeks straight.       

During her Wembley performances, Dua Lipa brought out special guest appearances both nights. On night one, June 20, she brought out the English band, Jamiroquai, performing a duet together of their hit song, ‘Virtual Insanity’. On night two, she surprised fans by bringing out popular English singer, Charli XCX, with an announcement saying “the biggest brat I have ever known”. The two sang Charli’s hit song, ‘360’, together. 

dua lipa introducing charli xcx at wembley pic.twitter.com/ftOgXObrxw — allypally (@allypallyxcx) June 21, 2025

The show had incredible crowd engagement with Dua interacting with the audience, confetti, and balloon drops, and ended the night with fireworks. Throughout the night, Dua had many outfit changes, including a royal blue sequin set with a blue fur cover that revealed the UK flag.  

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Dua Lipa has been on tour for her ‘Radical Optimism’ album, which started in Asia, Australia and Europe with shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam, and Milan. She is currently in the UK with upcoming shows in Liverpool and Dublin before heading to North America in September, performing in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, New York, and ending in Seattle. You can find more tour information here.

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Keeping true to her dynamic stage presence and sensual visuals, Dua opened the show with her tunes ‘Training Season’ and ‘End Of An Era’ from her latest studio album ‘Radical Optimism’. The pop artists also gave homage to Australia’s very own AC/DC with a surprise cover of ‘Highway To Hell’, leaving her fans in awe. She closed out the show with chart-topping songs ‘Don’t Start Now’ and ‘Houdini’, delivering a show to remember.

The world tour supports the singer’s third studio album ‘Radical Optimism’, released in May 2024. The album went number 1 in 12 countries including the UK where it became the biggest album debut from a UK female artist since Adele, although not being nominated for a Grammy later on in the same year.

The year 2024 was huge for the artists with milestones such as a headline performance on Glastonbury’s famous Pyramid Stage and her first primetime concert special An Evening With Dua Lipa filmed live at The Royal Albert Hall, followed by the tour kickoff of the Asian leg in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul and more.

Dua will travel back to Europe in May after her Australian dates before returning to North America in September. The tour consists of multiple nights in most cities, including a four-night run at legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City, two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium in her native city of London and another four-night run at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

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The recently released album features 20 songs from across Lipa’s discography, including some of her earlier work with ‘Be The One’ alongside her most recent releases, from her third studio album ‘Radical Optimism’ and her number 1 hit from the Barbie movie – ‘Dance The Night’.

The English-Albanian ‘Houdini’ singer is reputable for her energetic and empowering pop anthems which exhibit relatable themes of love, heartache, resilience and independence. A discography so notable that the singer has seven BRIT Awards and three Grammy’s to her name.

‘Dua Lipa Live From Albert Hall’ stands at 1hr 21mins, whereas ‘An Evening with Dua Lipa’ will only air one hour of footage. This means the 20 songs will be condensed to balance celebrity appearances and commentary from Lipa between track intervals. This is expected due to ITV’s typical structure when hosting their ‘An Audience with…’ and their ‘An Evening with…’ specials, previous years have notably seen Kylie Minogue and Adele take over ITV for an evening on their respective TV specials. This year ITV will host three very special music specials over the Christmas period, besides from Dua Lipa, the TV broadcasting company will air concerts from both Girls Aloud and Katy Perry.

Reliving a magical night! “Dua Lipa: Live from the Royal Albert Hall” is now available on all platforms!https://t.co/OtFX5QXqpQ

Watch “An Evening With @DUALIPA” on @ITV this 8th December and on @CBS on the 15th for the full experience! pic.twitter.com/gH2Uwe7eF7

— Team Dua HQ (@TeamDuaHQ) December 7, 2024

The live album and the ITV Special sees Lipa take listeners and viewers at home on a journey throughout her career. With glamorous outfit changes (in true pop icon style), a special appearance from Elton John to perform ‘Cold Heart’, comforting chats with attendees and an orchestral backdrop performed by Heritage Orchestra, the singer entices viewers to convey her down-to-earth pop star status.

Heritage Orchestra are a renowned orchestra, known for their renditions of mainstream and popular music through compositional experimentation, working with the likes of RAYE, Björk, The XX and many more eclectic acts throughout the years. Their sonic contributions to the live album and TV special are outstanding, elevating the inherent powerful vocal of Lipa throughout the entire set. The fusion of Lipa and Heritage Orchestra’s talents transforms each track’s reinterpretation into an elegant masterpiece – which does not erase Lipa’s pre-existing talents as a pop sensation instead, uplifts the multi-faceted and multi-dimensional talents of the singer.

‘Dua Lipa Live From Albert Hall’ and Lipa’s upcoming ITV special will present a show-stopping experience exhibiting the singer at her very best. With her most recent album, ‘Radical Optimism’ being snubbed during the 2025 Grammy nominations, ‘An Evening With Dua Lipa’ will demonstrate the singer in the hearts of the British public, who admire the singer for her talent and will ‘Dance The Night’ away during the special.

]]> https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/dua-lipa-releases-a-live-album-ahead-of-itv-special-an-evening-with-dua-lipa/feed/ 0 https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/dua-lipas-radical-optimism-snubbed-after-release-of-official-2025-grammy-nominations/ https://www.mxdwn.co.uk/news/dua-lipas-radical-optimism-snubbed-after-release-of-official-2025-grammy-nominations/#comments Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:23:46 +0000 http://www.mxdwn.co.uk/?p=102708 On November 8, GRAMMY announced their full list of nominations for the 67^th GRAMMY Awards, amongst the announced 94 categories, Dua Lipa did not receive a single nomination despite the release of her third studio album, ‘Radical Optimism’ which released May of this year.

Next year’s Grammy Awards is set to take place February 2, 2025. During this year’s announcement of nominations many artists received a plethora of nominations. Women evidently dominated the nominations this year with Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan all having nominations in major categories. While British pop icon Dua Lipa was among many artists that were arguably snubbed.

Dua Lipa snubbed with 0 GRAMMY nominations for ‘Radical Optimism.’ pic.twitter.com/2VbA1m4ONO

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 8, 2024

Beyoncé received the most nominations of the year, 11 in total, bringing her career total to 99 – making her the most nominated artist in Grammy History. She released ‘COWBOY CARTER’ earlier this year, which has ridden the wave of success following its viral track ‘TEXAS HOLD ‘EM’.

Congratulations @beyonce on becoming the most GRAMMY nominated artist of all time! 11 this year and 99 for her career pic.twitter.com/fT5n0azSR3

— Parkwood Entertainment (@parkwood) November 8, 2024

Lipa released ‘Radical Optimism’ back in May making the LP eligible for nomination. All eligible works had to be released between September 16, 2023, and August 30, 2024.

The English-Albanian singer was a favourite ahead of this year’s nominations following her win of Best New Artist in 2019. Additionally, she won another Grammy for her sophomore album ‘Future Nostalgia’ earning the crown for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2021, against Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, for the same award.  

Last year, Lipa’s track from the Barbie soundtrack ‘Dance the Night’ gained two nominations: one for Song of the Year, the other for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

The ‘Don’t Start Now’ singer released her Tame Impala-produced, funky dance track, ‘Houdini’,  which would later become the lead single to ‘Radical Optimism’, in 2023, however, the track peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, compared to its peak position of number 2 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart. This would project the lack of fortune for the remainder of ‘Radical Optimism’’s success in the US, as Lipa’s follow up singles ‘Training Season’ and ‘Illusion’ would fail to breakthrough charts. These shortcomings would lead to Lipa’s latest album to be ignored completely from this year’s nominations.

‘Radical Optimism’ served as the perfect sequel to Lipa’s second album, ‘Future Nostalgia’ released in 2020. It’s fiery, energetic, full of dance tracks and relatable lyricism. Despite the Grammy’s failing to acknowledge ‘Radical Optimism’, Lipa has begun her 2024 and 2025 World Tour, where she’ll perform to fans in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America in both arenas and stadiums. With cold reception from her fans aimed at the Grammys due to Lipa’s lack of nominations, it is no doubt this latest album is a fan favourite which will encounter highly anticipated success during the 2025 award season, particularly next year’s BRIT Awards.