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Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live) (2026)

Where the lyrics of Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live) take you, and where it was really made.

The live album arrived on 1 May 2026, and the 3D concert film of the Manchester shows reached theaters a week later, on 8 May 2026.

Key places

Manchester performances at Co-op Live (2026)

Recording site Co-op Live — The album features performances from Manchester, and Co-op Live is listed as the recording venue. The point uses the venue coordinates, not a confirmed building footprint. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live) is a live album by Billie Eilish
• Released 1 May 2026, in the same month as the Manchester concert film
• Features performances from Manchester, as the concert film does
• A limited edition vinyl containing all songs from the tour's set list was announced on 16 April 2026

Background

• The album documents the tour in support of Eilish's third studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024)
• The tour was Eilish's seventh headlining concert tour
• It was announced on 29 April 2024, with 81 dates across North America, Oceania, and Europe
• It began on 29 September 2024 at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City and ended on 23 November 2025 at Chase Center in San Francisco
• Two dates were added in Inglewood, bringing the total at the Kia Forum to five shows
• The tour's intro track was released on streaming platforms on 24 April 2026

Recording

• The album features performances from the Manchester shows
• The concert ran for approximately one hour and thirty minutes
• Co-op Live is the Manchester venue listed for the recording

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles, California, to musician parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell.
• Homeschooled by her mother; began playing ukulele at age six and joined the Los Angeles Children's Chorus at age eight.
• Wrote her first "real" song at age 11 for her mother's songwriting class.

Career

• Released "Ocean Eyes" in 2015, written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell; the song drew attention on SoundCloud and led to a deal with Darkroom and Interscope Records in 2016.
• Debut EP Don't Smile at Me (2017) reached number 14 on the US Billboard 200.
• Debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart; "Bad Guy" became the first song by an artist born in the 21st century to top the US Billboard Hot 100.
• Second album Happier Than Ever (2021) also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Third album Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024) featured the number-one Billboard Global 200 single "Birds of a Feather".
• Won Academy Awards for "No Time to Die" (2022) and "What Was I Made For?" (2024).

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Critics gave the tour highly favorable reviews, and the album documents this tour
• NYT: Lindsay Zoladz praised Eilish's ability to bring the intimacy of her songs to the arena stage
• Billboard: Kyle Denis noted that Eilish plays piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar within one show
• The Guardian: Rob LeDonne called Eilish the master of playful confidence
• Variety: Chris Willman called Eilish a special gift to the pop landscape and praised her vocals during the show

Records

• At Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena, the tour set a single event attendance record of 21,001 on 28 February 2025
• That record broke the 18-year-old mark previously set by Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow
• Forbes listed Eilish as the 16th-highest-paid musician in 2025, with an estimated $190 million from 70 shows

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The concert opens with all arena lights off and only the LED cube lit, and Eilish then appears on top of it
• The stage used a 360-degree design, so the audience was connected from all angles
• The stage included two sunken band pits and eight multimedia towers around the arena
• Eco-Action Villages were set up at every venue, including Co-op Live in Manchester

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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