A Double Album Goes Big, Carly Rae Jepsen Books Her First Kia Forum Headline Show

Carly Rae Jepsen is going big. The singer brings her Day and Night tour to the Kia Forum on Thursday, April 22, 2027, her first headlining performance at the Inglewood arena, the Daily News reports. Velvet also covered Fireworks and a Final Freeze, Charli xcx Plays Two Nights at the Kia Forum.

The tour supports Day and Night, her eighth studio album, released September 18 on Interscope Records. Variety describes it as a double-disc set split between folk-leaning songs and dance tracks, and Jepsen has said the concept came to her while driving in Los Angeles. “It perfectly described this organic kind of dreamy thing, and then the nighttime, you immediately feel things get heightened and a little darker and more experimental,” she said. The album’s “Versailles” came with a music video filmed in Los Angeles and directed by Kanya Iwana.

The run was teased on billboards across the United States and Canada carrying the line “We Go Hard In This Family,” taken from her recent single “Motivation,” Consequence reported. It opens April 15 in Edmonton and plays amphitheaters and arenas through a May 29 finale at MTELUS in Montreal, with a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 15. The Forum date falls between San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on April 21 and Gallagher Square at Petco Park in San Diego on April 23.

It is a long way from 2012, when “Call Me Maybe” made her a global name and earned Grammy nominations for song of the year and best pop solo performance. Emotion, in 2015, built a devoted following, the Daily News notes, and later albums included Dedicated and The Loneliest Time, along with companion B-sides collections.

Fans can register for the artist presale through Sunday, October 4 at 8 p.m. A Verizon presale opens Monday, October 5 at 10 a.m., the artist presale follows Tuesday, October 6 at 10 a.m., and general tickets go on sale Thursday, October 8 at 10 a.m.