Pop celebrity Dua Lipa carried out a canopy of the AC/DC traditional “Freeway To Hell” throughout her live performance earlier tonight (Monday, March 17) at Rod Laver Enviornment in Melbourne, Australia. Lipa sang the tune whereas standing on the finish of the stage, surrounded by her band. Try fan-filmed video beneath.
After finishing the Australian leg of her “Radical Optimism” tour, Dua Lipa will head to New Zealand, Spain and France earlier than launching a U.S. run with a two-night stint in Chicago starting on September 5.
Dua is touring in assist of her third studio album, “Radical Optimism”, which was launched Could 3, 2024 through Warner Information. The album went straight to No. 1 in 11 nations, together with the U.Ok. the place it grew to become the most important album debut from a U.Ok. artist in 2024 and garnered the very best week one gross sales from a U.Ok. feminine artist since 2021. Within the U.S., the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s High Album Gross sales chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking Dua’s greatest gross sales week but. It was named a Critic’s Choose by The New York Occasions, who hailed it as “an album of nonstop ear sweet,” together with Selection, who declared it’s “a joyous blast of pop savvy.” Moreover, the New Yorker praised, “the instrumentation is a gleaming and impenetrable expanse, and the primary attraction is Lipa,” and Vogue raved it’s “a summery, confident slice of pop brilliance…[and] catchy as hell.”
Following its launch in 2020, Dua‘s certified-platinum sophomore album “Future Nostalgia” grew to become the longest working high 10 album by a feminine artist on the Billboard 200 in 2021. The Grammy Award-winning album spawned a number of worldwide hit singles, with “Levitating” incomes licensed diamond standing and the title of Billboard‘s No. 1 Scorching 100 Track of 2021.
Dua has discovered celebrity standing on stage and off, because of her many passions exterior of music. 2022 noticed Dua launch Service95, a worldwide model, tradition and society editorial platform that now includes a weekly publication, the Service95 ebook membership and the “Dua Lipa: At Your Service” podcast, which has been lauded by The Sunday Occasions and The Guardian and was named one of many “Greatest Podcasts Of 2022” by Spotify. Having graced each main vogue journal worldwide from Vogue and Elle to W and Dazed, Dua added “designer” to her resume in 2023 when she co-designed Versace‘s “La Vacanza” assortment alongside Donatella Versace herself, which Vogue deemed “the most well liked collaboration of the summer time.”
Dua‘s eponymous 2017 debut album is licensed platinum, spawned six platinum tracks, and made her the primary feminine artist in Brit Awards historical past to choose up 5 nominations in a single 12 months. Dua has a complete of 10 Grammy nominations, with three wins for “Greatest Pop Vocal Album”, “Greatest New Artist” and “Greatest Dance Recording”. Moreover, she earned nominations on the Golden Globes and Critics Alternative Awards for her hit tune “Dance The Evening” from the field workplace sensation “Barbie”. Throughout platforms globally, she has amassed over 45 billion streams and holds the document for being the primary feminine artist to have two albums with over 10 billion streams every on Spotify.
