The 90,000-capacity venue hosted the capital’s largest get together because the pop star upgraded to a stadium-sized efficiency with ease.
Dua Lipa performs on stage throughout her “Radical Optimism” tour at Wembley Stadium on June 20, 2025 in London, England.
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When Dua Lipa’s electrifying Glastonbury Festival headline performance lit up the long-lasting Pyramid Stage final yr, it was plain that the British-Albanian pop star’s ascent had not completed.
With a newly topped No. 1 album within the Kevin Parker-produced Radical Optimism — which earned her the achievement of largest opening week by a British feminine artist since Adele’s 30 in 2021 — and charting singles “Houdini,” “Coaching Season” and “Phantasm,” the three-time Grammy winner proved herself able to commanding certainly one of music’s most vital phases whereas demonstrating that no dream was too huge for her to manifest — the optimistic (and clearly efficient) manifestation technique she credit for getting her there within the first place.
But earlier than the tents had even been dismantled on Somerset’s Worthy Farm, she was already plotting her daring subsequent transfer which might take the Radical Optimism tour to larger and higher phases all over the world.
“There got here a degree within the yr the place I used to be pondering, ‘I’ve received to take a seat down and write some new desires and new plans,’” she informed Billboard U.K. final yr. “I really feel like I ticked so a lot of my packing containers this yr.”
Nonetheless “flying excessive” from Glastonbury, she introduced a present at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium, which bought out in a matter of minutes. Big demand led to a second evening, which swiftly adopted swimsuit. Kicking off her U.Okay. and Eire run throughout the hottest week of the yr, the ultimate days of June can even see Lipa play stadiums in Liverpool and Dublin earlier than she embarks on a U.S. area run within the autumn.
Listed here are the 9 finest moments from Dua Lipa’s present at Wembley Stadium on Friday (June 20).
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Sparks Fly With “Coaching Season”
With greater than sufficient hits to her identify to ensure an explosive opener, punchy Radical Optimism single “Coaching Season” was given the dignity of kicking off proceedings because the singer’s shimmering arrival on stage and impassioned vocals — fairly actually — despatched sparks flying by means of the air. Glowing pyrotechnics erupted each few seconds all through the dynamic monitor, together with one significantly thrilling second after the bridge the place fireworks shot up completely in beat with the track.
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One Large Kiss for Wembley
“Wembley! You guys prepared for a celebration?” Lipa requested cheekily earlier than introducing the track that by no means fails to guide a totally British sing-along. After changing into an unofficial soccer anthem for impassioned Liverpool football fans, it felt particularly becoming to listen to the pop star’s most chantable lyrics reverberate within the 90,000-strong Wembley crowd, as voices of all ages and octaves hollered the infectious tune again at her whereas pumping their arms in frenzied unison.
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Hits on Hits on Hits
When you’ve gotten a again catalog as hook-filled as this, it’s simple to fill a finely tuned set with all of the hits and finest bits. Tracks like “Levitating,” “Electrical energy,” “Houdini” and “New Guidelines” have been simply a few of the highlights that punctuated two hours of uninterrupted summer time disco magic, as Lipa’s decade of pop smashes ensured there was barely a second to get better between tracks, incomes the undivided consideration of one of many largest crowds of her profession with complete ease.
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Goals Coming True
If the sheer disbelief within the singer’s dewey eyes didn’t already say all of it, Lipa carved out an intentional pause early within the set to inform the gang how she’d waited “my complete life” for this second. “It’s so surreal, it’s so loopy,” she continued as she scanned the vastness of the gargantuan crowd gazing again at her. Reflecting on her first London present a decade in the past to only 350 individuals, the gravity of the milestone clearly powered her vitality ranges right down to the ultimate seconds of the efficiency.
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Shall We Get a Selfie?
When your followers have queued for hours to safe a front-row spot in a stadium throughout a heatwave, it’s solely proper you are taking a second to say good day. Pausing her tightly choreographed spectacle simply half-hour in to rise up shut and private with barrier-clutching concertgoers, Lipa nattered away, signed autographs and took selfies with followers who squealed down the microphone in pleasure — or may barely discover any phrases in any respect — a few of whom had traveled from so far as Portugal to be there.
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“Digital Madness” With Jamiroquai
There have been quiet hopes that Dua Lipa would mark the event of her first Wembley present with a particular visitor or two. As an alternative of introducing certainly one of her many former collaborators, she invited somebody who “actually impressed me from the second that I began making music” and has “been a trailblazer for British music”. Moments later, Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay strutted onto the stage in a white fringed jacket and luminous purple trousers to carry out his 1996 acid jazz traditional “Digital Madness”, as their free and limber vocals gelled immediately.
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Choreo for Days
If her Glastonbury efficiency didn’t already show that choreography is quick changing into one of many star’s sturdy fits, evening one at Wembley confirmed that Lipa’s dance strikes are very a lot a key a part of her pop star package deal. Whether or not she was following her personal groove or locking into her backup dancers’ high-energy routines, there was little question that her disco-pop songs are more and more taking up their very own shapes. Armed with sequin-filled wardrobe adjustments, confetti cannons, multi-colored streamers, perfectly-timed pyro and even a retro dance-along exercise to “Bodily”, this was a dance get together from begin to end.
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Lighting Up the Crowd With “Completely happy For You”
With a ship run as tightly as this one, spontaneous moments throughout the live performance felt all of the extra particular. “Completely happy For You”, a low-key gem from Radical Optimism, discovered Dua Lipa at her vocal finest and actually in a stream state. Standing centered atop a raised stage as she stripped away all of the frills, the gang instinctively lit up the stands with their telephones at simply the precise second because the dusky sky slipped into the evening.
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10 Years of Being the One
Milestones like this invite moments of reflection, and there was no higher track to signify a full circle journey than Lipa’s 2015 hit “Be the One,” which stays a setlist staple and certainly one of her largest songs up to now. Channeling the ambition of that 20-year-old singer with huge pop desires, her solo second on a smaller stage located within the crowd was symbolic and highly effective as she led her regular name and response. “Now that’s what a stadium feels like!”