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Katy Perry's Lifetimes Tour Coming to 7 Canadian Cities: 'The Canadian Fans Have Been Incredible'

Perry says she "owes it to" the Canadian fans. Legendary pop group The Beach Boys also announced a slew of Canadian dates this week.

Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Jack Bridgland

Katy Perry is doing right by her Canadian fans on her Lifetimes tour.

The pop star will come through seven Canadian cities from July 22-August 5, 2025, playing arenas in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Québec City and Toronto.


That's a handful more than most arena artists often do when coming through Canada, but Perry explained in an interview with MuchMusic that she wanted to honour the dedication in Canada.

"Some people just go to Toronto or Vancouver and I'm like no," she says, "We gotta go to Ottawa, we gotta go to Edmonton, we gotta go to Quebec — not just Montreal!" (She pronounces Quebec as Q-Bec, which she might want to adjust before the concert date). "The Canadian fans have been incredible and I've been on this journey with them for a long time so I owe it to them."

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The Lifetimes tour supports Perry's recently released seventh album, 143. If that new release has struggled to connect with audiences, her tour isn't. Perry's world tour already has sold out dates in Mexico, Australia and South America.

General sale for the Canadian dates starts November 29.

Beach Boys Summer Gold

Also coming to Canada in the new year is pop group The Beach Boys. The massively influential act will be bringing their Endless Summer Gold tour to 11 Canadian cities in March and April. The tour announcement comes on the heels of singer and songwriter Mike Love's nomination for the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame. (Love is the only original member in the current touring lineup of the Beach Boys.)

Like Perry, the group will come through cities outside the typical Canadian tour stops: they'll play in Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, London, Mississauga, and Peterborough. Notably absent are Toronto and Montreal. Maybe there's other dates planned for those cities, or they'll just have to miss out on the good vibrations. Tickets go on sale November 29.

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JoJo and Jamboree

Pop singer JoJo also announced a Toronto stop as part of her Too Much To Say tour. She'll come through Canada's biggest city on March 19, playing the Danforth Music Hall. The tour follows the release of her memoir, which chronicles her experiences as a young popstar in the 2000s, Over the Influence. Tickets are on sale now.

And for country fans, Alberta's Big Valley Jamboree announced its lineup this week, with Bailey Zimmerman, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton headlining. Check the full lineup here.

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Justin Bieber's New Album 'Swag' Is Here

The Canadian pop star's seventh album dropped as a surprise today. Others releasing new music this week include Canadian/Kiwi roots star Tami Neilson, Toronto indie rock outfit Long Branch and Montreal indie rockers Karma Glider.

The Biebs is back!

A day after teasing a surprise album with an Instagram photo, pop superstar Justin Bieber has released Swag, his first album since Justice in 2021, via Def Jam Recordings.The 21-song opus, his seventh studio album, features collaborations with such songwriters and producers as Carter Lang, Dylan Wiggins, Dijon, mk.gee, Daniel Chetrit, Eddie Benjamin, Knox Fortune and more. Canadian R&B star Daniel Caesar, who was featured on the 2021 No. 1 hit "Peaches," is also credited as a writer and producer on the song "Devotion." Some of the album was recorded in Iceland in April. Streaming links here.

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