In minutes, Island rising star Shawn Mendes sold out all 38 dates of the Shawn Mendes World Tour 2016, which kicks off 3/5 at Radio City Music Hall. Additional dates (including a second gig at London Eventim Apollo) and tickets were added due to high demand. Tix for the final show at Toronto's Air Canada Center—set for 4/21—go on sale 2/13. See all the stops here.
Mendes' platinum-selling single with Fifth Harmony's Camila Cabello, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (off platinum, debut album Handwritten), recently went Top 10 at Pop radio and is currently #11 on iTunes' pop singles chart and #22 overall. Predecessor "Stitches"—now 4x platinum—hit #1 at both Pop and Hot AC and continues to sell, holding as the #17 iTunes pop single, while in the Top 40 overall.
And after all that breakout success, he still remembers what you did last summer. Whatta mensch. We can't even remember what had for lunch.
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