Update (June 1, 10:35 A.M.): Tickets for Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester benefit concert sold out in six minutes, according to the event’s official Twitter account. According to People, around 45,000 tickets were sold. The show, which is expected to raise around $2.6 million, will donate all of its proceeds to the Red Cross’s Manchester Emergency Fund. Melvin Benn, director for Festival Republic, which is producing the event, told Billboard that Grande “was very traumatized after the attack, but it was very important to her to support the victims and show a level of defiance that stands up to this bloodlust and ambivalence towards innocent individuals and tells the terrorists that they are not going to stop us.”
Update (May 30, 12:35 P.M.): Ariana Grande will return to Manchester on Sunday to perform a charity concert. The singer shared a poster on on Twitter Tuesday morning that said proceeds from the show will benefit the victims and their families, as promised in Grande's statement on Friday. The Sun reports that musicians including Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Usher, Niall Horan, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Coldplay, and Take That will also perform, along with, possibly, Madonna.
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On Monday, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb during Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman tour stop in Manchester, England. A heartbroken Grande suspended her tour and canceled some European stops as the world mourned the deaths of 22 people and many more injured. Grande tweeted her response that night, writing, “broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have words.” On Friday, the singer released a longer response on the social platform, insisting to her fans, “We won’t let hate win.”
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In her new statement, Grande promises to return to Manchester “to spend time with my fans and to have a benefit concert in honor of and to raise money for the victims and their families.”
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