P!nk announces she is leaving X (formerly Twitter)

The US pop sensation has made an unexpected announcement after arriving in Australia for her Summer Carnival tour.

Pink performs during her "Trust Fall" tour in November 2023 in Miami, Florida. Picture: Getty Images

Pop royalty P!nk has revealed she is leaving X (formerly Twitter) to the despair of fans.

The So What singer, 44, announced the news on the platform on Tuesday night after arriving in Australia ahead of her Summer Carnival Tour.

In a cheeky post she said: “Have you ever been at a party with a bunch of salty old people that never realised their dreams? Where the liquor ran dry ages ago, there’s no music-no one’s dancing-you would’ve had more fun at home with your blind cat? That’s twitter these days-or whatever it’s called now. Byeeeeeeeeeee.”

Shortly later, she posted and then quickly deleted: “This account will self-destruct in two minutes. Do it!!!!”

P!nk joined Twitter in April 2009 and lured 30 million followers.

The account is still active but the announcement sent her fans into a meltdown.

“You got toooooooo thick of skin to let this stuff eat at you Alicia. Remember where you came from. Be you, stop giving in, you have 1,000s of fans here that love and support you,” wrote one fan.

And another wrote: “Don’t break my achy breaky heaaarrttt!”

The mother of two shared a bunch of photos this week enjoying time out in Sydney with her children.

“Bondi Beach it’s been too long!!!!!!!” she wrote in the caption.

“Bills was delicious, too. ️Soooooooo happy to be back on this side of the world! Thank you beautiful Australia for being our home away from home. Kids are stoked.”

P!nk and kids Willow and Jameson in Bondi. Picture: Instagram

‘ECLIPSING EVERYTHING’

After 17 years of adding show after show to her months-long arena tours here, P!nk has made the leap to the great outdoors to play stadiums from Melbourne to Townsville, kicking off at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium on February 9.

P!nk has set a massive new record with the Summer Carnival tour, its 20 stadium concerts the most played by any artist in Australia.

Her longtime promoter Michael Coppel said Alecia Moore, professionally known as P!nk, is the “loud” quiet achiever of the global tour circuit.

P!nk has already broken more Australian box office records before she arrives to kick off her Summer Carnival tour. Picture: AFP

While the media spotlight has been trained on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, P!nk was busting house records throughout the American leg of the Summer Carnival tour, playing many venues which had never hosted a big pop gig.

Coppel estimates P!nk will have sold about 900,000 tickets when this leg winds up on March 23.

“This tour is absolutely eclipsing everything she has done before at the box office,” Coppel said.
“I think Alecia is the most under-recognised superstar of the music industry, She’s the loud, quiet achiever.

“At this point we are over 850,000 tickets sold and she will sell 900,000 before we’re done, which will probably make it the second biggest tour ever in Australia (behind Ed Sheeran). It will be the biggest ever tour by a female artist.

“She’s already got the record now for the most number of stadium shows anyone’s ever done here which is 20.”

P!nk with her children Jameson Moon Hart and Willow Sage Hart at the 2019 E! People's Choice Awards. Picture: Christopher Polk/E! Entertainment/NBCU

How P!nk, her longtime Australian manager Roger Davies and Coppel got to 20 shows reveals the So What? star likes some healthy competition.

The Summer Carnival run here was at 18 shows when the team got a proposal to take P!nk to far north Queensland for the first time.

“I went to see her play in Hyde Park in London last June and she asked how the (ticket sales) were going in Australia,” Coppel said.

“I said it was going really well but ‘I’ve got a challenge for you. Ed Sheeran did 18 concerts on his last stadium tour, and if you do add one more city, you’ll be at 19 and break his record.’ She said ‘Let’s do it!’”

The first Townsville show sold out in 16 minutes, with a second gig quickly added to meet the huge demand, with those tickets snapped up in 30 minutes.

The honorary Aussie has made a habit of smashing her own concert benchmarks as one of the top-grossing pop artists here with every visit since the I’m Not Dead tour in 2007.

But it wasn’t always so.

P!nk’s first Townsville show sold out in 16 minutes, with a second gig quickly added. Picture: Getty Images

Coppel remembers P!nk threw the dice on her first Australian arena tour in 2004, banking on building her fanbase off the back of her third record Try This.

“That first tour was a real struggle. She didn’t have an audience here yet, we sold 25,000 tickets over six shows, and we lost a lot of money as the promoter,” Coppel said.

“But then she sparked something with Australia because she is who she is, and the albums got bigger and bigger, and the tours got bigger and bigger.”

Australia and Europe were her most lucrative box office hunting grounds until the Summer Carnival world tour – off the back of her 9th album Trustfall – which added yet another US leg for the second half of 2024. America has emphatically joined the P!nk party.

She will have sold more than three million tickets by the end of the tour’s two-year run.

And her travelling music gypsy family – husband Carey Hart, daughter Willow and son Jameson – will have amassed more happy memories as they enjoy their first Australian summer holiday. Although Willow will probably have a little bit of “work” to do; she makes a cameo during the show having enjoyed a top 10 hit with mum on their 2021 song Cover Me In Sunshine.

P!nk will have sold more than three million tickets by the end of the tour’s two-year run.

“One of the reasons Australians loves P!nk is she has put the time into coming here for more than 20 years,” Coppel said.

“And she’s a family person. She’s not one of those people who has three nannies travelling around that deal with the kids.

“She is up the day after a show, planning something to do with them; they go to museums, art things, on excursions and she is really into living in and experiencing the country.”

It is likely P!nk will also be working on her side hustle while in Australia and finding more outlets for her Two Wolves wines, made from the vineyard on her Californian ranch.

P!nk’s tour here is also remarkable for the fact she is the only global pop superstar who has booked an Aussie opening act with Tones and I warming up the stage for her.

US Singer Pink performs on stage during a concert in Vienna, in July 2023. Picture: AFP

“P!nk was really keen on having Tones open because she wants to be empowering of female artists; you’ve seen in America she had Pat Benatar and her good friend Brandi Carlile play,” he said.

After P!nk’s production team recently scoped out the Australian venues, about 2000 to 3000 extra tickets have been released for most shows.

For all Summer Carnival dates and ticket details, livenation.com.au

Originally published as P!nk announces she is leaving X (formerly Twitter)