Pink is answering her critics with a history-making residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere.
The “So What” singer announced the high-profile engagement on social media Monday, just two months after facing fierce backlash for criticizing rapper Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian speech—an incident that preceded his removal as an opening act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour.
“Makes me think of celebration. Makes me feel like I’m on top of the world,” said the 47-year-old singer, born Alecia Moore, while promoting the residency. The shows will make her the first solo female pop artist to headline the $2.2 billion venue, following major acts including U2 and Metallica.
“This idea has been bubbling up for years. And I finally get to share it with all of you! Let’s celebrate!” she added in a message to her 11.7 million Instagram followers.
The nine-show residency will unfold over five weeks in September and October of next year.
The “Get This Party Started” hitmaker continued: “The highs, the lows, the new, the scary, the never been done before. For the first time, I’m giving a show a home and I hope you’ll visit. It’s my FIRST EVER residency. @spherevegas, 2027. I can’t wait to have you over.”
Pink’s Sphere residency announcement came two months after fans called for her cancellation over comments about rapper Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian speech, which preceded his removal as the opening act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour in September 2026
Pink’s dispute with Macklemore began when she reposted an Instagram Story from StopAntisemitism criticizing the rapper’s performance at an Ed Sheeran concert earlier this fall.
“Awful – Jewish fans bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran sing last night in NJ, not to be ambushed by Macklemore’s anti-Israel propaganda,” read the caption on StopAntisemitism’s original post.
“Instead, Macklemore walked onstage in a keffiyeh, shouted ‘Free Palestine,’ accused Israel of a false ‘genocide,’ and turned a mainstream event into a political nightmare against the Jewish state. Concertgoers are owed apologies and refunds.”
Several days after the post sparked controversy, the three-time Grammy winner published an essay on Instagram explaining why she had criticized Macklemore. She also stressed that she did not fully endorse the original poster’s pro-Israel message.
“I’ve been quiet in my own words for a week, which you know isn’t like me. So here they are,” she wrote, attempting to clarify her position after reposting a series of confrontational memes that appeared to target her critics.
“Last Sunday I reposted somebody else’s post about Macklemore’s set at Ed Sheeran’s show. It said things in words I didn’t write, and I wouldn’t have chosen all of them,” Pink wrote beside a photograph of herself looking toward a sunset. “Then the comments came, and I did what I do when I’m hurt, which is post snarky memes and act like I’m fine. That’s on me.
“A repost isn’t a statement, and a meme isn’t a spine. Social media makes all of us cheap and fast, and we all know it,” she continued. “But I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it.”
The singer added: “I was born a Jew. I didn’t pick it, and I’ve never hidden it. And this week a whole lot of people decided what I believe without asking me, without checking a single thing I’ve ever said or done, because a repost and the word ‘Jew’ were apparently enough to fill in the rest. But let me fill it in… myself.
Pink also made clear that she does not “speak for Israel, or for any government. I never have.”
“I’d rather be disagreed with for what I actually said than hated for what anybody else wrote, so let me say it,” Pink wrote amid the backlash over her social media post
Macklemore was removed from Sheeran’s tour after US stadium owner Robert Kraft accused him of hate speech over remarks made during two performances at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium in early September
Pink said her position remained unchanged from the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on a music festival near the border of the Gaza Strip, which has been occupied by Israel for nearly 60 years.
“Hamas is a terrorist organization. Palestinians deserve a future that honors their humanity and their aspirations. Protecting innocent life comes first, everywhere, and nobody should ever celebrate the death of a child. Anybody’s child,” she wrote.
“I’ve spent a decade as a UNICEF ambassador for kids who didn’t choose the country or the war they were born into, and I have grieved every one of them, on both sides of that fence. I didn’t do it from behind a screen; I went to those children and held them. I’m not going to litigate a complex war in an Instagram caption, and I’m not going to recite anybody’s slogan to earn back a follower.”
On Monday, November 9, fans quickly reacted to Pink’s upcoming Sphere residency. Some said the venue was an ideal match for the singer’s signature aerial performances, which often feature her soaring above the audience on wires.
X users expressed mixed reactions to the announcement of Pink’s Sphere residency
“Well deserved! That will be a spectacular event. P!NK never disappoints,” one fan wrote. “She works hard, puts on a show, she’s fearless, can sing, has hits, isn’t afraid to cover great songs. Here for it!”
Others on social media reacted negatively. “Oh the Israeli lobby fought hard for this lmao,” one critic posted, while another wrote, “BUT I HUUUUUURD SHE WAS CANCELLED?”
Another critic was more direct, writing: “Not paying to see a racist who supports k*lling children.”
The Daily Mail has contacted Pink’s representatives for comment on the reaction to her announcement.
Meanwhile, Sheeran, 35, thanked supporters at his tour stop in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, sharing video of himself taking several bows as the crowd cheered.
“Thank you Tampa, thats(sic) the end of the North American stadium tour, see you soon Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico x,” he captioned the post.
Sheeran has one remaining US performance scheduled for November 9 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, before traveling to Chile.
The tour will continue through Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil before concluding at Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Mexico City on December 11.
The announcement comes weeks after Sheeran and his tour became embroiled in controversy when Macklemore was dropped as an opening act over his pro-Palestinian remarks.
Macklemore was removed from Sheeran’s tour after US stadium owner Robert Kraft accused him of hate speech over comments made during two performances at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium in early September.
The recording artist, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, said from the stage that every person deserved the same freedom. He also told the audience that he wanted people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank to know they had not been forgotten.
“This has put me in the middle of an important, passionate argument about freedom of speech on the most complex issue on the planet,” Ed Sheeran said after Macklemore was removed from the opening-act lineup on his tour
He then performed his protest song “Hind’s Hall” as images depicting the devastation in Gaza appeared on the stadium’s giant screens.
Kraft later barred Macklemore from performing at Boston-area Gillette Stadium, which is owned by his holding company. The decision led to Macklemore’s departure from Sheeran’s tour.
After Macklemore was dropped, the other opening acts—including Finneas, Lukas Graham and Aaron Rowe—as well as Sheeran’s backing band Beoga, said they would leave the tour in solidarity with the rapper and Palestine.
Sheeran continued to face criticism and apologized during a September 19 performance in Philadelphia, saying he had made “mistakes” in his handling of the controversy.
“This has put me in the middle of an important, passionate argument about freedom of speech on the most complex issue on the planet,” he said. “What happened in Israel and at the Nova music festival on October 7 was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
“What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate,” continued the “Shape of You” singer.
“My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, of children’s lives, and the systemic injustice we’re seeing unfold in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.”
