MELANIE MARTINEZ

Multiplatinum alt-pop phenom Melanie Martinez has announced the European and Australia/New Zealand legs of her blockbuster PORTALS Tour. The tour kicks off Oct. 29 in Stockholm, Sweden, and then makes stops in Oslo, Copenhagen, Prague, Milan, London, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. Martinez will then bring the tour Down Under, beginning January 28, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand, followed by shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Tickets for the European shows - including two shows in Germany (Berlin + Düsseldorf) - go on sale Friday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. (local time).

The PORTALS Tour, which features Martinez exclusively as the otherworldly reincarnation of your alter ego "Cry Baby," is currently playing to sold-out crowds across North America, with sold-out dates through mid-July.

The PORTALS Tour celebrates the recent release of Martinez's blockbuster album PORTALS, now available in an expanded deluxe digital edition with three additional new tracks. The album became Melanie's highest charting entry on the Billboard 200 upon its release earlier this year, reaching No. 2 with 142,000 equivalent album units in its first week - Martinez's third consecutive Top 10 album debut on the Billboard 200 and the biggest first week for a solo artist in 2023 to date.

PORTALS also debuted at #1 on Billboard's Current Alternative Albums, Current Pop Albums, Top Album Sales, Current Album Sales, Internet Albums, Digital Albums and Top Alternative/Rock Albums charts, as well as #2 on the Top Vinyl Albums chart. The album became an instant global sensation and was Melanie's first #1 album debut in Australia. It also landed at #1 in New Zealand, #2 in the UK, #3 in Canada and Ireland, and in the Top 10 charts in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.

PORTALS features the hit singles "VOID" and "DEATH," both of which made history by being Melanie's first solo songs to debut on the Billboard "Hot 100″. "DEATH" is accompanied by a cinematic music video - directed, conceived and costumed by Martinez herself - that was #1 on YouTube's trending "Top Music Videos" chart and has now racked up over 23 million official views. The song was first teased with a series of eerie clips revealing the rebirth of Melanie's character "Cry Baby" and quickly sparked a variety of theories, garnering over 115 million views in total on social media. The track and its captivating music video earned praise from critics like Billboard, who raved, "The avant-garde pop auteur creates bold, expansive worlds with every project... While the dramatic five-minute track can be associated with her artistic revival, the kinetic drums and electronic elements also make listeners feel reborn."