For his latest tour, Harry Styles is coming to Madison Square Garden. A lot.
Styles, who is set to release his fourth solo album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.,” on March 6, will perform a 30-show residency at the Garden, appearing every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from Aug. 26 to Oct. 31, Live Nation, the tour’s promoter, announced on Thursday.
The residency will be the only United States dates this year on Styles’s 50-stop world tour, called Together, Together, which is set to begin in Amsterdam in May. Information about ticket sales is available on Styles’s website.
The full tour involves shows in seven cities, also including São Paulo, Mexico City, Melbourne, Sydney and London, where he will play six nights at Wembley Stadium. Opening acts, which vary by city, include Jamie xx, Robyn and Shania Twain.
For part of his last outing, Love on Tour, Styles set up a series of residencies in American arenas in 2022, playing 15 shows at the Garden and 12 at the Kia Forum in the Los Angeles area, along with shorter runs in Chicago and Austin. Styles’s shows then, along with outings by BTS and others, were part of a small wave of hybrid touring residencies. In the music business, they were partly seen as strategic ways to minimize the costs and health risks of life on the road in the post-Covid recovery.
But the extended runs also created buzz, giving artists and venues an opportunity to customize the experiences; at the Garden, there were custom postcards and special food and beverage items created for Styles’s show.
Billy Joel’s decade-long Garden residency saw him performing there 104 times before its final show in July 2024 — which brought Joel’s lifetime total at the Garden to 150. By the time of Styles’s final show of his new residency, on Halloween, he will have played there 57 times. Both artists have their tallies at the venue printed on banners hanging from the rafters.
Ben Sisario, a reporter covering music and the music industry, has been writing for The Times for more than 20 years.
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