Florence, 19 June 2024 – After conquering the clubs of Europe with his European Tour, 17 dates in 10 countries, almost all sold out, from 3 July Mahmood will be the protagonist of the most evocative Italian summer festivals with the Summer Tourwaiting for the tour in Italian arenas, scheduled for October 2024. With the Summer Tour the August 14th will be in Forte dei Marmiwhile for the tour of the arenas the On October 25th he will visit Florence performing at the Nelson Mandela Forum. Sold out in 24 hours Florence, Rome and Naples. “Ra Ta Ta”, the new single, was also released on Friday 14 June, available on the radio and on all digital platforms, also accompanied by the video clip (watch it at this link).
In the months of July and August Mahmood will stop at the main festivals with his Summer Tour, produced by Friends & Partners: first appointment on 3 July at the Arena Mare 42° 15° in Termoli, and then continue the July 5th at L’Umbria Che Spacca in Perugia (sold out), on 8 July at the Marostica Summer Festival Volksbank in Marostica (VI), on 11 July at the Mantova Summer Festival in Mantua, on 13 July at Live in Genoa Festival in Genoa, 19 July at Sequoie Music Park in Bologna (sold out), July 20th at the Anima Festival in Cervere (sold out), July 27th at the Arena Musa in Benevento, July 30th at the Sottomarina Sound Beach in Sottomarina di Chioggia, August 12th at the Sunset Festival in Lignano Sabbiadoro , The August 14th at Bertelli Live in Forte dei Marmi, on August 18th at the Oversound Music Festival in Gallipoli, on August 20th at the Sotto il Vulcano Fest in Catania, on August 21st at the Teatro di Verdura in Palermo (sold out), on August 23rd at the Roccella Summer Festival in Roccella Jonica, on the 24th August at Krimi Sound in Cirò Marina and on 31 August at the Todays Festival in Turin. Info and tickets: www.ticketone.it and www.friendsandpartners.it. The new single “Ra Ta Ta”, written by Mahmood and produced by Katoo and Madfingerz, is a story in which images follow one another sculpted by the artist’s unique style. Young people who live a daily life of discomfort, among insults and wrong company, in which the typical elements of childhood – games, fruit juice – mix in an oxymoron of abandonment and difficulty, where the machine-gun mouth that shoots words in bursts it becomes the only weapon to defend oneself from injustice. The video clip is directed by Attilio Cusani and Mahmood himself, with the production of Borotalco.tv in collaboration with +216/Capsul. Filmed in a hot Tunisian summer, its protagonists are boys and girls of all ages who alternate their days between moments of boredom and scenes of aggregation. Motorbike trips and evening get-togethers, with the city lights as a backdrop and the hope of being able to create new horizons together.
The summer tour will be an opportunity to listen to this new single ei songs from the album “In the beds of others”. In fact, Mahmood, accompanied by his trusted band – which includes Francesco Fugazza on guitar, Marcello Grilli on keyboard and Elia Pastori on drums – and by the backing singers Arya Del Gado and Debora Cesti, will propose a set list with his most intimate songs such as “Cocktail d’ amore” (gold record), “Nel tuo mare” and the touching “Stella cadente” up to the more irreverent “Neve sulle Jordan” and “Personale”. There will also be less recent successes, which with a dive into the past give us new arrangements of “Inuyasha”, “Brividi”, “Rapide” and many others, in addition to the highly anticipated “Soldi” and “Tuta Gold”. The album “Nei beds degli altri” was released on all platforms on February 16th and in physical formats on March 8th, with three new songs and two exceptional collaborations: “Personale” with Geolier (gold record), “Overdose” and “Sempre/Jamais” with Belgian singer Angèle. With more than 355 million streams and certified platinum, it debuted at first in FIMI with only digital copies in the week of release, a result also replicated with physical copies, taking first place in the album and CD and vinyl charts and best-selling cassette tapes of the week. It also ranked fifth on Spotify’s Global Debut Top Albums (for the weekend of February 16-18).
The album contains within it “Gold suit”, recently certified quadruple platinum and which has over 265 million global streams across all platforms. The song maintained its first position in the FIMI ranking of best-selling singles for three weeks in a row and also achieved great success abroad: in the week of its release it debuted in the Top 50 Global and took second place in the Top Songs Debut Global (9-11 February), as well as being the seventh most searched text in the world on Genius. Author and singer esteemed on the Italian and international scene, Mahmood today has 31 platinum discs and 8 gold discs in Italy, 6 platinum discs and 3 gold discs abroad and has over 3.5 billion total streams worldwide. ‘active. 2024 is a year dedicated to live shows for him, in fact after having undertaken the European Tour, while waiting to start the Summer Tour at festivals, it will be the turn of the arena tour in autumn: two dates at the Forum in Milan, the 21 (sold out in 24 hours) and 22 October, 25 October at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, 27 October at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome and 31 October at the Palapartenope in Naples.
