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Ariana Grande’s Manchester Benefit Concert Sold Out in Six Minutes

Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams, Niall Horan, and more are expected to join the singer in Manchester on Sunday.
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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.”

Read the full statement below:

My heart, prayers, and deepest condolences are with the victims of the Manchester attack and their loved ones.

There is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better.

However, I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way.

The only thing we can do now is choose how we let this affect us and how we live our lives from here on out.

I have been thinking of my fans, and of you all, non stop over the past week. The way you have handled all of this has been inspiring and made me more proud than you'll ever know.

The compassion, kindness, love, strength and oneness that you've shown one another this past week is the exact opposite of the heinous intentions it must take to pull off something as evil as what happened Monday.

YOU are the opposite.

I am sorry for the pain and fear that you must be feeling and the trauma that you, too, must be experiencing.

We will never be able to understand why events like this take place because it is not in our nature, which is why we shouldn't recoil.

We will not quit or operate in fear.

We won't let this divide us.

We won't let hate win.

I don't want to go the rest of the year without being able to see and hold and uplift my fans, the same way they continue to uplift me.

Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.

I'll be returning to the incredibly brave city of 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. I want to thank my fellow musicians and friends for reaching out to be a part of our expression of love for Manchester. I will have details to share with you as soon as everything is confirmed.

From the day we started putting the Dangerous Woman tour together, I said that this show, more than anything else, was intended to be a safe space for my fans. A place for them to escape, to celebrate, to heal, to feel safe and to be themselves. To meet their friends they've made online. To express themselves.

This will not change that.

When you look into the audience at my shows, you see a beautiful, diverse, pure, happy crowd.

Thousands of people, incredibly different, all there for the same reason, music.

Music is something that everyone on Earth can share.

Music is meant to heal us, bring us together, to make us happy.

So that is what it will continue to do for us.

We will continue in honor of the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy.

They will be on my mind and in my heart everyday and I will think of them with everything I do for the rest of my life.

Ari